Harpsichord, basso continuo, early music

Markus Stein is a professor in harpsichord and basso continuo at the Mainz University of Music and director of the Choir and Orchestra Academy at the Collegium Musicum of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is also artistic director of the Evangelische Thomaskantorei in Hofheim am Taunus. He completed his studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. There he studied harpsichord with Prof Harald Hoeren, Prof Sabine Bauer and Prof Eva Maria Pollerus, baroque chamber music with Prof Michael Schneider and organ with Prof Martin Lücker. Markus Stein has worked with renowned artists such as Michael Hofstetter, Wolfgang Katschner, Martin Gester, Konrad Junghänel, Andreas Scholl, Masaaki Suzuki, Paul Goodwin and Ton Koopman. He has also performed with renowned ensembles and orchestras such as the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz, the concerto classico frankfurt, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, La Stagione Frankfurt, L'arpa festante, the Tölzer Knabenchor, the Philharmonisches Orchester Gießen and the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz.

He is also co-founder of the baroque orchestra Neumeyer Consort, where he is a permanent harpsichordist and basso continuo player. In this capacity, he has been involved in numerous CD productions, including J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Telemann's orchestral suites, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah and all the cantatas of the ‘Französischer Jahrgang’, which were released as part of the Telemann project on the CPO label.