Conductor · Teacher
Biography
Theuring founded the Wiener Jeunesse-Chor in 1959 and its singers performed for Hindemith and for Bernstein, and took up Mahler and the Second Viennese School during the revival of this repertoire in the 1960s. Born in Paris in 1930, he had his first training as a Vienna choirboy, studied at the Academy of Music and privately with Ferdinand Grossmann and Hans Swarowsky, and appeared as a guest with the Vienna Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. From 1973 until 1999 he held the chair of choral conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and in 1975 he was among the founders of the Vienna Master Courses. He died in 2016. Nayden Todorov studied choral conducting with him in Vienna. He went on leading the Vienna Master Courses for the rest of his life.