Günter Neubert
Günter Neubert (born 11 March 1936) is a German composer and tonmeister. Life. Born in Crimmitschau, Saxony, after his Abitur at a secondary school in Crimmitschau in 1954, Neubert studied school music at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1954 to 1955 and from 1955 to 1960 sound engineering at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". He completed his studies in 1960 with the Staatsexamen and diploma. From 1959 to 1965 he was a guest auditor with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. From 1965 to 1967 he was its aspirant and acquired the teaching qualification for music theory  at the Berlin Musikhochschule. From 1968 to 1971 he was for musical composition with Wagner-Régeny and Paul Dessau at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Von 1960 bis 1961, Neubert was assistant Tonmeister at the Rundfunk der DDR in Berlin. From 1961 to 1991 he worked as sound director at the radio station in Leipzig. From 1978 to 1989 and from 1999 to 2006 he was Lecturer at the Leipzig Academy of Music. From 1978 to 1989 he was also a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. In 1987 he became private docent. In 1990 he  became a member of the board of the , which he headed from 1998 to 2000. Finally he worked as a sound engineer at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1992 to 2000. From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the board of directors of the . Here he directed the series "Das Außergewöhnliche Konzert" and created the "Förderpreis für junge Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler". From 1995 to 2001 he was a member of the and chairman of the Saxony regional association of the German Composers' Association. In 1996 he was a founding member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste. Since 2009 he  has been chairman of the "Grieg-Begegnungsstätte Leipzig" (Notenspur-Station 3 of the ). He is a member of the board of trustees of the "Hans Stieber Foundation", which regularly awards the Hans Stieber Prize. He is also on the board of trustees of the Freunde und Förderer des MDR Rundfunkchores e. V". From 2001 to 2005 he composed an oratorio with texts by Karl May and Isaiah, which was premiered in Dresden on 22 November 2006.