Karl-Friedrich Beringer

In 1978 he succeeded Hans Thamm as director of the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor and led the ensemble to world fame.

Since 1981 he has been a regular at national and international music festivals, known for conducting choral works with orchestra, such as Bach's Mass in B minor, St Matthew Passion, St John Passion, and Christmas Oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Requiem, Stravinski's Psalmensinfonie, and Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms.

[2] He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by then President Richard von Weizsäcker for his outstanding services to the youth.

[3][5] Concerts there included Bach's cantatas O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34, Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg, BWV 149, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190, and Magnificat in 2007,[6] Bach's St John Passion in Eberbach Abbey in 2009[7] and a final Christmas concert in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden in 2011.

[8] Concerts with the choir took him not only to other European countries (Norway, Finland, Malta, France, Great Britain, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Greece), but also to the Middle East (Israel), the Far East (China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore), Australia, the USA and South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay).