Altona Singakademie
The Altona Singakademie is an amateur choir of around 40 singers from Hamburg . The Singakademie is a member of the Association of German Concert Choirs. In August 2017 she had an artistic director for the first time in Eva Hage. At the beginning of December 2019, Christoph Westphal took over the choir direction.
history
The choir was founded in 1853. It is one of the oldest in the metropolitan area.
In the course of its more than 160-year history, the Altona Singakademie has performed almost all known oratorios in collaboration with other Hamburg orchestras and other guest orchestras. Including the Verdi Requiem in 1990 with the Dresden Philharmonic , in 1995 Benjamin Britten's War Requiem on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War with additional choirs, soloists and orchestras from England, Poland and Russia, and in 2003 the big anniversary concert for 150 years of existence of the Altona Singakademie and in 2013 Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in the Hamburg Laeiszhalle .
repertoire
The repertoire of the choir, which specializes in oratorios, includes works from the Baroque , Classical and Romantic periods as well as contemporary choral music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Artistic Director
List of choir directors since 1853:
- 1853-1885 John Böie
- 1885–1895 Arnold Krug
- 1895–1933 Felix Woyrsch
- 1933–1939 Willi Hammer
- 1939–1971 Engelhard Barthe
- 1972–1975 Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke
- 1976-2005 Jens Weigelt
- 2006–2013 Igor Zeller
- 2014–2016 Matthias Mensching
- 2016–2017 Sönke Grohmann
- 2017–2019 Eva Hage
- since 2019 Christoph Westphal
Web links
- Altona Singakademie at Discogs (English)
- Homepage of the Altona Singakademie
- Literature from and about the Altona Singakademie in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Altona Singakademie. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
- ^ Website of Eva Hage. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The history of the Altona Singakademie. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ List of the listed works from 1976 to 2017. In: Website of the Altona Singakademie. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Festschrift 125 Years of the Altona Singing Academy 1853-1978 . Hamburg 1978.
- ↑ Ingrid Samsche-Stehr, Ralph Elzholz (ed.): The choir. The Altona Singakademie in history and on the way into the future. Festschrift for the 150th anniversary . Hamburg 2003.
- ↑ Altonaer Singakademie eV (Ed.): Programs of the Altonaer Singakademie 1976-2018 . Hamburg.