Matthias Egger (*1981), who has been music director at Freising Cathedral since August 2016, will become the new choir director and successor to Dr. Frank Höndgen on December 1, 2025.
Born in Bolzano (South Tyrol), he studied church music, organ, and choral conducting in Bolzano and Munich. His influential teachers included Herbert Paulmichl, Edgar Krapp, and Michael Gläser. As a full-time church musician, he was responsible for music at the Jesuit Church in Innsbruck from 2009 to 2016, and also conducted the Tyrolean Motet Choir in Wörgl and the VocalArt Brixen ensemble. In Freising, he conducts the cathedral music ensembles – the cathedral choir with children's and youth choir, the cathedral choir, and the cathedral orchestra.
Matthias Egger
Phone +49 / 89 / 23 17 06-34
Fax +49 / 89 / 23 17 06-12
matthias.egger(at)michaelsmusik.de
Choir & Orchestra of St. Michael's
The choir and orchestra of St. Michael's have by far the longest and richest tradition of all the musical ensembles connected to our church. They can look back at a history that spans more than 400 years, starting with the consecration of the altars in 1592, which was accompanied by then maestro di capella Orlando di Lasso. Today the choir and orchestra are essential elements in the great concert of all musical ensembles at St. Michael's.
Collegium Monacense
Collegium Monacense of St. Michael's is a professional vocal ensemble that cultivates the tradition of the court chapel, i.e. music performed around the times of St. Michael's original construction. The ensemble's sound is ideal for performing works of the early modern era, particularly Renaissance and early Baroque music. But the Collegium also tackles music in all other styles and from all eras (in appropriately varying sizes).