Auditory vowel Dresden
AUDITIV VOKAL DRESDEN (or AuditivVokal Dresden) is a German contemporary vocal ensemble, which specializes in the interpretation of new (est) er as well as old and early vocal music .
History and profile
In 2007 the conductor Olaf Katzer founded AuditivVokal Dresden and has been its artistic director ever since. As a contribution to the commemorative concert on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the Austro-Hungarian composer György Ligeti , which the Academy of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden hosted in June 2007, Katzer staged Ligeti's Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures (1962-65) with students . Since then, the ensemble has appeared annually in up to three in-house productions in the Dresden and Saxony area as well as at national and (inter) national festivals. In addition to the search for new vocal and advanced sound production techniques and their establishment, the up to 24 singers put an additional focus on the interpretation of old and early music. Their contrasting in contemporary works is often a component; for example in programs with madrigals by Salvatore Sciarrino and Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa , with commissioned works that took on the Glogau songbook (in 2012 when the palace chapel in Dresden reopened with works by German and Polish composers) or in cooperation with the improvisation artist Günter Heinz as part of a musical Chamber Conglomerage (2016), which included works by Guillaume Dufay and Georg Katzer . Further instrumental partners include renowned orchestras such as the Dresden Baroque Orchestra , the Dresden Symphony Orchestra , Ensemble Moto Perpetuo New York, Ensemble Interface (Frankfurt / Main), the Ensemble Iberoamericano from Weimar and the PMCE Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble (Rome).
As an original sound ensemble of the modern age, AuditivVokal Dresden stands for innovative performance practices that place artistic work and vocal research in new contexts with science, politics and art. Concert tours in recent years have brought the ensemble to various national festivals (including chor.com Dortmund , SinusTon Festival Magdeburg , TonLagen Hellerau , Musikfest Goldberg-Variationen Frankfurt / Main , Randspiele Zepernick , 35th German Evangelical Church Congress in Stuttgart ), but also to Rome , Brazil , Chile and the east coast of the United States of America . Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Mitteldeutsche and Bayerischer Rundfunk , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and Radio Suisse Romande have so far accompanied live and CD productions and honored the work of the ensemble in radio broadcasts.
In the 2017/18 season, AuditivVokal Dresden was Ensemble in Residence at the Magdeburg Society House .
repertoire
Olaf Katzer and the ensemble present up to 40 works annually in programs and ensembles that have been put together appropriately in style (a good half of them premieres and commissioned compositions) in the context of various art and scientific disciplines - especially in combination with classics, but also lesser-known works of ancient and early music .
Regular cooperation partners include composers such as Michael Edward Edgerton, Charlotte Seither , Georg Katzer, Manos Tsangaris , Gerhard Stäbler , Amir Sphilman, the dancer and choreographer Katja Erfurth, the director Sylvia Freitag as well as organizers and associations such as KlangNetz Dresden , Leonhardi Museum , Deutsches Hygiene Museum and TanzNetz Dresden.
The solo and ensemble repertoire AuditivVokal in Dresden ranges from experimental, voice-researching music to theatrical works and contemporary church music to work with laypeople in order to promote the dissemination of contemporary works. In addition to the cooperation with established specialists and well-known artists, Katzer also focuses on promoting future generations of composers. In recent years, numerous works by young students, especially from Saxony, have premiered.
In 2015, ladies from AuditivVokal Dresden took part in the Aghet concert by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra, which was dedicated to commemorating the 100th recurrence of the genocide of the Armenians . The project, which included commissioned compositions by Zeynep Gedizlioğlu , Vache Sharafyan and Helmut Oehring , received international attention , not least due to the cancellation of the planned concert at the German Consulate General in Istanbul by the Foreign Office , which had sponsored the project itself.
World premiere works (selection)
- Yuval Avital: GIOBBE (2018)
- Reiner Bredemeyer : Chorsprüche (1965), 269 (1983), (both premiered posthumously in 2015)
- Michael Edward Edgerton: abaGa baʁatur (2014/16), sirene segmenti (2017)
- Hans-Joachim Hespos : kaps (2011)
- Michael Hirsch : De rerum natura (2016)
- Georg Katzer: Song of Solomon (2016)
- Peter Motzkus : Liebeswalzerlieder (2013-, Ausz.), Cantata # 2 (2014), Telemusik # 1 (2016) and others
- Helmut Oehring: Massacre, you hear MASSACRE! (2015)
- Richard Röbel: passages (2015), arabesques (2016), co-be-mood (2017)
- Idin Samimi Mofakham: Truth.Courage.Freedom (2014), ReSearch and Muye I (both 2017)
- Friedrich Schenker : Bad Dream and Easter Awakening (= motet, 2007/13)
- Annette Schlünz : L'air est une pomme (2013)
- Charlotte Since: Few Syllables of Happiness (2015)
- Amir Shpilman: Situation Object (2014), Malleable Images and DemocraCycle (both 2017)
- Gerhard Stäbler: Rumor (2013), cracked vapors (2017)
- Susanne Stelzenbach : art (2010), three miniatures (2016)
- Manos Tsangaris / Marcel Beyer : There is an A (speech to language) (2016)
- Martin Wistinghausen : Dream Songs (2013)
- Marc Yeats: oros (2015)
Productions (selection)
The productions of AuditivVokal Dresden include not only concerts but also workshop and educational programs. In most cases, these are dedicated to a specific target group (children / young people, senior citizens, lay people, etc.).
- su / al / do / GE / gen / wart (2008): New vocal music a cappella in comparison to madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo
- And I jump into every shape (2010): Music theater miniatures (Director: Sylvia Freitag)
- Licht Risse (2011): Old and New Music with live overhead painting by Helge Leiberg
- Enkomikos (2012): New vocal music on the subject of "Humor" (Director: Sylvia Freitag)
- Dresden Anatomy (2014): At the festival for the 250th anniversary of the Dresden University of Fine Arts in cooperation with the HfM Dresden
- Do you hear? Dance! (2014): Performances in cooperation with TanzNetz Dresden (Choreography: Ka Dietze, Marita Matzk)
- Bach durchKREUZt (2016): contemporary contexts on Johann Sebastian Bach (choreography: Katja Erfurth), as part of the Dresden Bach Festival
- Vox populi ?! The Sound of Democracy (2017): New vocal music on the subject of "Democracy"
- DA PACEM, DOMINE (2018): Works by Reiko Füting , Heinrich Schütz and contemporaries, in memory of the Thirty Years' War
Concert tours
- FREEDOM (2014): with Ensemble Moto Perpetuo New York (East Coast of the USA)
- MIKRO MAKRO META (2016): with the Ensemble Iberoamericano (Brazil, Chile)
New Dresden vocal school
The New Dresden Vocal School is a project that is dedicated to maintaining and making contemporary vocal music available in the form of workshop and mediation projects.
engagement
In addition to artistic tasks, Olaf Katzer and the ensemble also fulfill their socio-political and cultural-political educational mandate and are involved in the mediation and promotion of contemporary vocal music. Workshops and master classes for composition and singing students at renowned institutions such as the Dresden Music Academy or the Manhattan School of Music ( New York City ), but also for interested amateurs and professionals of all ages and backgrounds are important to the ensemble. The endeavor to introduce a wide audience to vocal music of the 20th and 21st centuries resulted in the project Vox populi ?! The sound of democracy (September 2017) together with the initiative Die Offene Gesellschaft and the association ATTICUS Dresden e. V. developed the format of the BürgerSingStunde .
With his humanistic credo »Back to art! Back to people! «Katzer sees a continuation and further thinking of the aesthetics of the human, as it was formulated by Heinrich Böll . AuditivVokal Dresden would like to advance the development of its own aesthetic theory with its various concert and mediation projects.
Olaf Katzer also carries out this in the form of numerous links, in that as the director of the Meißen Choir Festival he sounds ... regularly brings amateur, amateur and semi-professional choirs from Saxony into contact with new vocal music in joint projects ( KlangKette Meißen , SoundWalk Meißen , DemocraCycle ). As patron of the annual festival in September, the Minister of State for Economy, Labor and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister and the Free State of Saxony, Martin Dulig (SPD), also takes an active part in these joint projects.
Web links
- Homepage AuditivVokal Dresden
- Documentation Center New Dresden Vocal School
- Essay on the BürgerSingStunde
- Interview with Olaf Katzer
- Hauch wants in the ear, man!
- Swing up soprano to the Klingsorland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Peter Motzkus: Ten years of contemporary vocal music. AUDITIV VOKAL DRESDEN and ensemble art for the 21st century. In: tightrope walk. Contributions to contemporary music , issue 14 (April 2017), ed. v. Stefan Drees and Gordon Kampe, Berlin: Edition Juliane Klein KG 2017 - pp. 4–10.
- ↑ AuditivVokal Dresden: Event note AUDITIVER ROUNDTABLE. In: Homepage AuditivVokal Dresden. KunstAuditiv e. V., accessed on August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Dresden Symphony Orchestra: Aghet. In: Homepage of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ See TV report from Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (23.11.2016) https://vimeo.com/194827086
- ↑ Cf. Olaf Katzer: All people become artists. Essay on the BürgerSingStunde Dresden. (Program for the BürgerSingStunde, September 13, 2017) - pp. 7–11.
- ↑ Cf. Heinrich Böll's poetics lectures at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main 1964 (in Ders. Frankfurter Vorlesungen , Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1966).
- ↑ Cf. Peter Motzkus: Ten years of contemporary vocal music ( see note 1) - p. 5f.
- ^ Meißener Kulturverein: Choir Festival "Meißen klingt ..." (No longer available online.) In: Homepage Meißener Kulturverein. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018 ; accessed on August 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
