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Olaf Katzer studied music and psychology in Munich, Weimar and Dresden. While still a student, he founded the Ensemble AuditivVokal Dresden, which he has artistically directed ever since.
Over 120 premieres, guest performances at numerous festivals and radio recordings document his commitment to "contemporary" vocal music. Concert tours have taken him to almost all European countries, as well as to Taiwan, China, the USA and South America. In transdisciplinary exchange with singers, instrumentalists, dancers, composers, painters, directors and scientists, he develops a contemporary ensemble art for the 21st century in sustained and unconventional programming.
He got invited as a conductor of ensembles such as the RIAS Kammerchor, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the MDR Rundfunkchor and the Dresdner Kammerchor. Since 2011 he has been a lecturer for choral conducting at the Dresden University of Music, since the academic year 2015/16 in the function of substitute professor for choral conducting. In 2019 Olaf Katzer received the Förderpreis der Landeshauptstadt Dresden and in 2020 the Arras Prize.
Paul Heller has been managing director of AuditivVokal Dresden since March 2025.
He studied vocal accompaniment, orchestral conducting and song accompaniment in Berlin and Leipzig.
Today he works as a concert manager as well as a singer, conductor, pianist and composer on concert stages all over the world.
He is the musical director and countertenor of the Leipzig vocal quintet Ensemble Nobiles. Furthermore he is also the pianist of the trio pontes, which specializes in 19th century song rarities.
His compositions have been premiered by the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the GewandhausChor Leipzig, the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra and the women's sextet Sjaella, among others, and have been published by traditional publishers such as Edition Peters and recorded on numerous CDs.
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