A member of the Thomanerchor as a boy, he is mostly active in oratorios, cantatas and vocal chamber music of the 17th and 18th century.
He studied musicology at the University of Leipzig and graduated in 1994 with a doctorate;[1] his dissertation was about Melchior Franck's Geistliche Konzerte.
[1][3] Since 1987 he has performed as a concert and oratorio singer, including appearances at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Schauspielhaus, the Semperoper in Dresden and the Kölner Philharmonie.
[3] As a teacher, he was first a lecturer at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig[1] from 1994,[2] appointed professor of the Institute of Musicology on 14 April 2010.
[2][3] From 2002, Krumbiegel has been the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Herrenwieser Vokalensemble, a group of 18 singers from Germany and Switzerland who meet once a year and tour Brandenburg, with a repertoire from early Baroque to contemporary.