Markus Landerer is director of music at the St. Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna since 2007. He was born in Morondava (Madagascar) in 1976. He studied sacred music, choir direction and orchestral conducting at the music academies of Munich and Stuttgart (studying organ under Harald Feller, choir direction under Michael Gläser and conducting under Per Borin). He received a 5-years-scholarship with the conductor’s forum of the german music council.
He has conducted celebrated orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Munich Symphony, the Mainz Philharmonic, the Bremen Philharmonic and the Austrian Ensemble of Modern Music. He also collaborates intensively with the austrian baroque orchestra „concerto stella matutina“.
In China he worked several times with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Xiamen and conducted among others the 1st Symphony by Jean Sibelius, the 1st Piano Concerto and the 2nd Symphony by Johannes Brahms.
Markus Landerer has also conducted opera performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro. At St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, he conducts the Vienna Cathedral Orchestra, the Cathedral Choir and the professional vocal ensemble with a large repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
From 2003-2011 he served as a professor of choir direction and conducting at the provincial conservatory of Vorarlberg (Austria) and he led the opera chorus of the Bregenz-Festival in this time. In the last years he worked with famous professional choirs in Germany: with the chamberchoir of RIAS in Berlin, the choir of the “Norddeutscher Rundfunk” in Hamburg and with the choir of „Bayerischer Rundfunk“ in Munich.
A number of world premieres were under his direction for example the last work of the british composer Sir John Tavener.