Choir Academy Dortmund

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Choir Academy Dortmund
Seat: Dortmund / Germany
Carrier: Choir Academy at the Konzerthaus Dortmund e. V.
Founding: 1998
Head : Zeljo Davutovic
Lars Kersting
Website : www.chorakademie.de

The Chorakademie am Konzerthaus Dortmund (eV) is one of the largest singing schools of its kind in Europe . It looks after around 1,300 singers who sing in more than 30 different choir ensembles . In Dortmund it consists of 17 children's choirs and 8 choirs in the performance area. There are other locations in Essen and Gelsenkirchen, each with 6 children's choirs.

Goal setting

The aim of the choir academy is that choral singing is experienced as an intense hobby. This should be made possible by a varied and intensive training in a professional environment. In regular rehearsals, the mostly young people are enabled to learn very complex choral literature and to present it at concerts.

Areas

The choir academy is divided into a broad area and a performance area.

Width range

The broad area is divided into children's choirs A, B, C and D and the youth choir according to age and ability.

Performance range

Belong to the performance choir area

  • the children's opera choir,
  • the youth concert choir,
  • the girls' concert choir,
  • the boys' choirs A and B,
  • the boys' concert choir,
  • the symphonic choir.

Boys are cared for in the voice changer group while their voices break and before they move into the youth area (“ mutants ”).

management

The non-profit association is headed by Zeljo Davutovic as artistic director and Lars Kersting as managing director.

parody

On December 27, 2019, the radio broadcaster WDR 2 put a video it produced of the WDR Children's Choir Dortmund online, which is a cooperation between the Dortmund Choir Academy and the WDR Rundfunkchor Cologne . The song sung in it, a satirical rewrite by the WDR-2 editorial team of Meine Grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop , led to a shit storm , whereupon the broadcaster deleted the video and the director Tom Buhrow apologized to the audience.

Individual evidence

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