Robert Bergt
American conductor
Robert Bergt (January 7, 1930 – July 26, 2011) was Artist-in-Residence and Bach scholar at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, a position he held since 1995. Bergt is known as a symphonic and chorale conductor with a specialization in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and other masters of the Baroque, Renaissance, Classical, and Neoclassical periods.
Career
Bergt was founder and music director of the American Kantorei. Bergt had held tenure at three academic institutions at the graduate and undergraduate levels: Concordia Seminary in St. Louis as instructor from 1956 to 1960 and as assistant/associate professor in the areas of Church Music and Worship from 1960 to 1974, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from 1974 to 1984, and at Valparaiso University from 1984 to 1988. Tokyo’s Musashino Academia Musicae engaged Bergt as orchestral conductor and graduate professor of chamber music in 1981 and again on a continuing basis from 1988 to 1995. Bergt was concertmaster and assistant conductor of the St. Louis Philharmonic from 1949 to 1955. He appeared as soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony in 1956.
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