2025 | Lecturer
Stefan Baier
Stefan Baier, born in Passau in 1967, studied church music, organ and harpsichord in Regensburg, Munich and Vienna. His most important teachers were Michael Radulescu and Karl Friedrich Wagner.
Since 2003, he has taught as a full professor of organ at the Regensburg University of Music, the Regensburg University of Catholic Church Music and Music Education, which he led as rector from 2011 to 2023.
He is a lecturer on organ and early music courses and a guest lecturer at numerous universities worldwide. Since 2006, he has been a permanent guest lecturer at the Institute of Church Music of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Opole (Poland). His commitment to German-Polish relations was recognised in 2011 with the University of Opole's Medal of Honour.
He received the same honour from the University of Havana/Cuba in 2016. He has been a permanent guest lecturer at the University of Havana and the ecclesiastical Instituto Superior Félix Varela there since 2012. Since 2013, he has been the spiritus rector of the annual ‘Semana de Música Sacra en La Habana’. In 2016, he founded the ‘Diplomado en Música Sacra’ degree programme at the aforementioned institute. At the Gregorius House in Tokyo, the Institute for Sacred Music in Japan affiliated to the HfKM, he fulfilled the function of examination chairman from 2011 to 2023.
Since 2011, he has been a board member of the ‘Conference of Directors of Catholic Church Music Training Centres in Germany (KDL)’. From 2016 to 2022, he was its 1st Chairman. He is also a member of working groups of the German Music Council and the German Cultural Council.
Since 2001, he has been the second organist at the city centre churches of the Protestant parishes of Dreieinigkeitskirche and Neupfarrkirche.
As an organ expert, he was involved in the restoration of the Johann Ignaz Egedacher organ in the Mariä Himmelfahrt parish church in Vornbach am Inn. In the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg, he was a member of the expert commission for the ‘Bach organ’ built by Ahrend. His activities are rounded off by recordings as an organist and member of ensembles, editorial work as part of the ‘Sacri concentus Ratisbonenses’ series, jury work at national and international competitions, artistic director of various concert series such as the KLANG.RAUM.MUSEUM series organised by the city of Regensburg, as well as concerts as an organist and harpsichordist in many European countries, North Africa, Japan, Korea and Cuba.
In 2024, he was honoured with the Albertus Magnus Medal of the City of Regensburg for his services as an artist and promoter of art and music.