Born in Mühlhausen (Thuringia), Sören von Billerbeck began his musical education at the Spezialschule für Musik in Wernigerode and later studied with Prof. Heidi Petzold at the Carl Maria von Weber Musikhochschule of Dresden.
As a member of the a cappella formation “Die Weimarer Hofsänger” (The Weimar Court Singers) he toured all of Germany and to Austria, France, Italy and Greece. During this period he was involved in numerous television, radio and CD productions. In 1998 he was a grant recipient and prizewinner at the German Music Council competition in the chamber music category.
As an opera singer, he has appeared in Innsbruck, Görlitz, Freiberg and Radebeul as well as at Berlin’s Deutsche Staatsoper. As a concert soloist he has sung numerous concert and opera parts with Berlin’s Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, as well as with the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Berliner Symphoniker and Akademie für Alte Musik, working with such conductors as Ton Koopman, René Jacobs, Michael Gielen, Marek Janowski, Ludger Rémy and Lior Shambadal.
Sören von Billerbeck is also a regular soloist with Rundfunkchor Berlin. Among his appearances have been the baritone solo in Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at the chorus’s 2006 Sing-Along Concert and the 2008 World Choral Symposium in Copenhagen, Sir John Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple in 2007 at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof and in the world premiere of Solemnitas in Conceptione Immaculata Mariae Virgine in 2008 at Zurich’s Great Minster under the direction of Simon Halsey.
Billerbeck is also a member of the ensemble 6cant, along with three of his colleagues from Rundfunkchor Berlin.
