Holger Berndsen is a native of Würzburg. His teachers included Enikö Török and, from 1985, Prof. Arne Torger at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, where he graduated in 1990. In 1992 he attended master classes with Prof. Lew Naumow and studied with him at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1994 to 1998.

His enthusiasm for working with singers already developed during his studies in Würzburg. Courses with Helmut Deutsch, Axel Bauni, Aribert Reimann and Galina Wischnevskaja contributed to this.

In addition to his ongoing concert activities, he has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, in ballet productions at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, at the Landestheater Coburg, and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (including a solo concert in the Rachmaninov Hall, 1998).

CD and radio recordings, both as a soloist and with singers and chamber music partners, are part of his field of activity, as are numerous world premieres and concerts with works by contemporary composers.

As an accompanist he performs with singers such as Christian Elsner, Silke Evers, Peter Schöne and Daniela Sindram. He assisted in singing courses of Olaf Bär, Juliane Banse, Frieder Bernius, Konrad Jarnot, Camilla Nylund, Gerhild Romberger, Edith Wiens, and others.

Master classes, mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia, round out his pedagogical activities.

Holger Berndsen has been teaching vocal correpetition, lied composition and correpetition teaching at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2011, full-time since April 1, 2015. At the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg he already taught piano, correpetition and song interpretation from 1998-2015. In 2011 he founded the project lied!klasse.

Since the winter semester of 2016, he has been working again at his home university and holds a teaching position for vocal correpetition.