British conductor Marcus Creed has spent the bulk of his career in Germany, working with some of its most prestigious choral and instrumental ensembles and as a professor at the Musikhochschule in Köln. He has recorded prolifically, and his interests embrace a spectrum of music that includes composers as diverse as Bach, Handel, and Mozart to Stockhausen, Messiaen, and Kurtág, in the fields of choral music, oratorio, opera, chamber music, and orchestral music. From 1987 until 2001, Creed was the artistic director of the RIAS-Kammerchor. In 2003, Creed was appointed artistic director of SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart. He conducted the Orpheus Vokalensemble and Concerto Köln for a recording of Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten, and led the Danish National Vocal Ensemble on the album Lux Aeterna, performing works for choir by György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály, in 2022.