German teacher and choir director
Jürgen Oberschelp (born 12 July 1938) is a German conductor, choir director. He conducted the Bielefelder Kinderchor, a mixed children's choir that his father had founded in 1932, from 1984 to 2016.
Life.
Oberschelp was born in Bielefeld. After studying musicology, geography and music education in Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, Oberschelp received his doctorate in 1972 in Cologne with the dissertation "Das öffentliche Musikleben der Stadt Bielefeld im 19. Jahrhundert", about public musical life in Bielefeld in the 19th century. He taught music and geography at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Bielefeld from 1971 to 2002, when he retired as Oberstudienrat.
In the 1960s, he took over the direction of the Bielefelder Kinderchor, which his father Friedrich Oberschelp had founded in 1932 as the first mixed children's choir in Germany. He organised many concerts and toured in Germany and abroad. He retired in 2016.
Recordings.
As choral conductor with the Bielefelder Kinderchor:
References.
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