Hans-Joachim Lustig graduated from the Lübeck Academy of Music in 1992 with a degree in music and education, and has since been working in North Germany as a free-lance choral conductor. He was a fellow of the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) in 1994/1995. In 1991, while still at university, Hans-Joachim Lustig founded the chamber choir I Vocalisti, and is still today the artistic director of what has come to be an internationally renowned choir. In 1999, he took charge of the Chorknaben Uetersen.

He leads masterclasses in choral singing and choir conducting and works successfully as a conductor and jury member at concerts, festivals and competitions both in and outside Germany. As a guest conductor, he has worked amongst others with the Belgrade Radio Choir, Philharmonia Chorus London and the State Choir Ankara.

Anne Weyler is a performance artist between the poles of dance, performing arts, fine arts and medial arts in North Rhine – Westphalia. She is member of several arts collectives and works, among others, for Marina Abramovic.

From 2008 to 2018 she worked as a dance educator for modern children’s dance and bewegungstheater in numerous schools and dance schools. She mostly teaches in accordance with the Iwanson method and uses structural improvisation.

For YOUTH CHOIRS IN MOVEMENT 2019, Anne Weyler will work for the first time with youth choirs,

The Nizhny Novgorod Boys‘ Choir was founded in 1946 as a music and choir school for boys. Since 1993, the graduates receive a conductor’s training and the choir’s artistic capacity has considerably increased. Famous Russian conductor Lev Ssivuchin was head of the school from 1953 to 2001. Under his direction the choir took part in many big national and international musical events and received high recognition, both in Russia and beyond.

Under the direction of Alexander Orlov (2005-2016), the choir won several awards, for example at the Choir Competition Wernigerode (2009), and performed with renowned conductors like Valery Gergiyev (2014/15). Today, Dimitry Guryanov is conductor of the Nizhny Novgorod Boys’ Choir, being himself a graduate of the school. The choir is accompanied by the pianist Anna Boyarchuk.

The choir is on of the flagships of the city of Nizhny Novgorod and regularly invited to the city’s major cultural events. They have been touring many parts of Russia as well as Germany, France, Poland, Spain and the U.S. The Choir is made up of several age groups, the younger boys’ group will be travelling to Bonn for YOUTH CHOIRS IN MOVEMENT 2019.