and occasionally **Axel Theimer**
Uwe Theimer received his musical training with the Vienna Boys' Choir and at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (composition with Prof. Alfred Uhl, conducting with Prof. Hans Swarowsky). He was Kapellmeister with the Vienna Boys' Choir, répétiteur at the Vienna State Opera and musical assistant to Karl Böhm, Lorin Maazel and James Levine at the Salzburg Festival, director of studies at the Vienna Volksoper, and conductor at the Vienna Chamber Opera and the Vienna Volksoper. He has given concerts as a song accompanist and conducted on all continents, led master classes and given guest lectures at universities and colleges in Japan and the USA. Since 2000, he has been a full professor at the University of Music in Vienna.
Uwe Theimer has developed an extensive repertoire of male choir literature with the Chorus Viennensis. He has made many specific arrangements for the choir, which have subsequently established themselves as long-running successes. In 1982, a record was made under Theimer's direction, featuring the Chorus Viennensis for the first time (see discography).
