Hanns-Martin Schneidt

He held teaching positions in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Tokyo, was Generalmusikdirektor in Wuppertal, artistic director of the Münchener Bach-Chor and the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, and founded Bach ensembles in Berlin and Tokyo.

[3] He founded in 1961 the Bach-Chor [de] and Bach-Collegium at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche[3] for regular performances of Bach cantatas,[5] and conducted the groups to 1963.

He left the Münchener Bach-Chor in 2001 at age 70, but kept conducting Bach groups that he had founded in Tokyo.

[6] From 2001, he was professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and artistic director of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, based in Yokohama, from 2007 to 2009.

[3] Schneidt was awarded the Eduard von der Heydt Prize of Wuppertal, in recognition of his shaping of the town's musical life over many years, without routine but transparency for the musical work of art at hand, in a broad repertory.