helmuth rilling
Helmuth Rilling (born 29 May 1933 in Stuttgart) is a German choral conductor. He is the founder of the Gächinger Kantorei (1954), the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (1965), the Oregon Bach Festival (1970),[1] the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (1981) and other Bach Academies worldwide, as well as the "Festival Ensemble Stuttgart" (2001) and the "Junges Stuttgarter Bach Ensemble" (2011). He led the Frankfurter Kantorei from 1969 to 1982.