Michael Gläser (born 2 November 1957) is a German singer, choral conductor and academic teacher.
He has been professor of choral conducting and Protestant church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1994.
Born in Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt), Gläser attended the Thomasschule zu Leipzig from 1967 to 1978 where he was a member of the Thomanerchor.
[1] He studied voice with Heidi Rieß and conducting with Andreas Pieske, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and Dietrich Knothe at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin from 1978 to 1985.
[1] In 2014, Gläser stepped in for the sick Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller and led the Thomanerchor as interim cantor for a quarter of a year.