Frankfurter Singakademie
| Frankfurter Singakademie | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Frankfurt am Main / Germany |
| Founding: | 1922 |
| Genus: | Singing Academy |
| Founder: | Fritz Gambke |
| Head : | Jan Hoffmann |
| Voices : | 120 (SATB) |
| Website : | www.frankfurter-singakademie.de |
The Frankfurter Singakademie is a lay choir from Frankfurt am Main with currently around 120 active members. It is under the direction of Jan Hoffmann and has an extensive repertoire with a focus on romantic choral literature. The choir plays an important role in Frankfurt's cultural life and sings regularly in concerts with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra and the German Philharmonic. In addition, he appears in concerts with international orchestras at home and abroad under the direction of renowned guest conductors.
history
The choir was founded in 1922 by Fritz Gambke with the aim of revitalizing the culture of choral singing with a new spirit. In the first years of its existence, the Frankfurter Singakademie was conducted by guest conductors such as Erich Kleiber , Hans Rosbaud , Richard Strauss and Igor Stravinsky .
From 1946 the choir established itself as one of the leading concert choirs in Germany under the direction of Ljubomir Romansky . After the Frankfurter Singakademie had participated in the world premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937, it performed his Trionfi in Frankfurt, Berlin and Salzburg on the composer's 75th birthday . During this time the choir sang under guest conductors such as Karl Böhm , Carl Schuricht and Erich Leinsdorf .
From 1985 to 1999 Karl Rarichs was choir director of the Frankfurter Singakademie. In its era, the choir performed under guest conductors such as B. Vladimir Ashkenazy , Sylvain Cambreling , Paolo Carignani , Christoph von Dohnányi , Christoph Eschenbach , Michael Gielen , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Yehudi Menuhin , Michel Plasson and Marcello Viotti . The Singakademie has performed with international orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the Moscow Philharmonic, the Orchester de Paris , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the Berlin and Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony . While the choir had made regular guest appearances outside of Frankfurt in the years before, the number of performances at home and abroad has now increased considerably. The choir has received invitations to Belgium, France, Holland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. During this time, the Frankfurter Singakademie recorded several works for the record. Karl Rarichs received the Binding Culture Prize 2004 for his life's work and his merit in introducing and inspiring young people to classical music.
At the end of 1999 Karl Rarichs resigned from the artistic direction of the choir. For his services he was made an honorary conductor of the Frankfurter Singakademie for life.
In August 2000 the choir elected Linda Horowitz , lecturer for choral conducting and conducting at the Academy for Music in Darmstadt, as his successor . Under her direction, the European premiere of Glenn McClure's Caribbean Mass took place with the participation of the composer. In 2003 the Frankfurter Singakademie traveled to Vietnam at the invitation of the Goethe Institute and gave several concerts there with the Carmina Burana (Vietnamese premiere) and the love song waltz by Brahms. After five years, Linda Horowitz resigned from the position of choir director.
In November 2005 the choir elected Paulus Christmann as its choir director. In addition to the overall choir, Christmann established a chamber choir, which should enable the Singakademie to meet the different musical requirements of different styles with an optimized line-up. Paulus Christmann died suddenly and unexpectedly on January 31, 2014.
In May 2014 Mathias Breitschaft took over the artistic direction of the Frankfurter Singakademie, followed by Jan Hoffmann on July 1, 2015. The rehearsals will take place in the Haus der Chöre in Frankfurt's Dornbusch district.
In 2000 the Singakademie was awarded the Binding Culture Prize.
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