Bergedorf Chamber Choir
| Bergedorf Chamber Choir | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Hamburg , Germany |
| Founding: | 1946 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Hellmut Wormsbächer |
| Head : | Frank Lohr |
| Voices : | 50 (SATB) |
| Website : | http://www.bergedorfer-kammerchor.de |
The Bergedorfer Kammerchor is a chamber choir from Hamburg founded by Hellmut Wormsbächer in 1946 , which has been directed by Frank Löhr since 2003. The choir has the legal form of a registered association .
The choir activities include regular concerts with works of secular and sacred choral literature. Concerts of many shorter pieces as well as full-length compositions with the participation of orchestra and soloists will be performed, for example in 2006 the High Mass in B minor by JS Bach . The choir goes on concert tours in Germany and abroad and takes part in competitions for choirs .
For the first 55 years of its existence, the direction of the choir was in the hands of its founder Hellmut Wormsbächer , who during this time laid the basis for ambitious choir work with committed amateur singers and steadily expanded it. For two years the choir was then directed by Tobias Brommann, who is now in charge of the Berlin Cathedral Choir . After he left the choir in 2003, Frank Löhr was entrusted with conducting.
Discography
CDs (selection):
- Wolfgang A. Mozart: Requiem, 2004
- Joseph Haydn: The Creation, 2008
- Frank Martin: Fair, 2009
- Georg Friedrich Handel: Solomon, 2013
- Christmas choral music, 2015
literature
- Werner Lembcke: The Bergedorfer Chamber Choir . In Lichtwark No. 49. Ed. Lichtwark Committee Bergedorf, Bergedorf 1985. (See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN 1862-3549 ).
- Barbara Mürmann: The History of the Bergedorfer Chamber Choir . In Lichtwark No. 49. Ed. Lichtwark Committee Bergedorf, Bergedorf 1985. (See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN 1862-3549 ).