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year, she got her first possibility to experience choir leading. She was given the responsibility for the children's choir of the parish church in Wiesenburg. After her regular schooltime, she went to the college „Kirchliches Proseminar Naumburg” in Naumburg/Saale. There she led the mixed choir of this school for two years and got her first organ lessons with Irene Greulich (church musician and organ player of the parish church, St. Wenzel). She performed in many church concerts as singer or with different instruments and had been a member of the group „Alte Musik auf historischen Instrumenten” in Belzig from 1981 till 1988. Between 1985 and 1988, Annette Borck was studied church music at the University for Church Music in Dresden. She learned organ as main subject with the renowned organist at the Cathedral „Katholische Hofkirche” in Dresden Hansjürgen Scholze. She ended her studies with the B-Exam for church music and got a licence as a freelance teacher for recorder, flute and piano from the Councel of the City of Dresden. She has performed organ concerts and other organ performances in Dresden, Belzig, Zingst (Rügen), Greiz, Wörlitz, Köthen and Hamburg. In 1989, Annette Borck took over the artistic leadership of the chamber choir „consonare”. 1990, she began to study choir leading at the University of Music „Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where her main subject teacher was Professor Horst Müller (leader of the „Singakademie Potsdam”). In1991 she continued her studies at the University of Music „Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden. Her main subject teacher there was Professor Matthias Geißler (leader of the „Philharmonischer Chor Dresden”). In 1995 she got her final degree as Diplom-Dirigent. Annette Borck has played the organ regularly in several parish churches in Dresden, and has taken over the leadership of the courses „Spiel, Musik und Rhythmus” (play music and rhythm) at „Unternehmen Kultur e.V.” for some time. She has also worked and performed as accompanist with the singer Katharina Scheliga. In 2000, she founded a children's choir „consonare Kinderchor”, which she has built upon and led ever since. A special highlight in her life as choir leader was the debut and first performance ever in Germany of the “Troix Madrigaux de Michel-Ange” by Aleksander Tansman in 2004. In the same year she read and moderated literature in the club „Bärenzwinger” in Dresden. In autumn of 2005, Annette Borck performed a series of solo works as a singer accompanied on the piano by Helmut Rennschuh.
Annette Borck lives as a freelance musician, choir leader and teacher in Dresden.
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