Helmuth Rilling

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Helmuth Rilling
Rilling in 2013
Born	(1933-05-29) 29 May 1933 (age 91) Stuttgart, Germany
Occupations	Choral conductor Academic teacher
Organizations	Gächinger Kantorei Frankfurter Kantorei Bach-Collegium Stuttgart Oregon Bach Festival Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart Frankfurt Musikhochschule
Awards	Herbert von Karajan Music Prize

Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933) is a German choral conductor and an academic teacher. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970),^[1] the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (1981) and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the "Festival Ensemble Stuttgart" (2001) and the "Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble" (2011). He taught choral conducting at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule from 1965 to 1989 and led the Frankfurter Kantorei from 1969 to 1982.