Chorus 116
| Chorus 116 | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Dresden / Germany |
| Founding: | 2006 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Christian Hauschild |
| Head : | Milko Kersten |
| Voices : | 80 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | chorus116.de |
The Chorus 116 is an amateur choir in the Saxony state capital Dresden .
The mixed choir was founded after a concert by former members of the school choir of the Kreuzschule Dresden in January 2006 and has been a registered association since March 2007 .
prehistory
The music teacher Christian Hauschild , director of the Beethoven Choir Dresden (later renamed Singakademie Dresden ), founded the FDJ choir of the EOS Kreuzschule Dresden in the 1970s . This was the nucleus of chorus 116. After their school days, some choir members of the school choir switched to the Singakademie; In 1987 Christian Hauschild took over the direction of the Finnish boys' choir Cantores Minores from Helsinki .
history
After Christian Hauschild returned from Helsinki to Dresden in 2006, former members met by the school choir of the Cross School in December 2005 in the Church of St. Mary on the water in the district Hosterwitz to the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach perform. Under Hauschild, a repertoire of sacred and secular choral music from the Renaissance to contemporary compositions was developed.
After Hauschild's death in 2010, Milko Kersten , professor of ensemble lessons at the Dresden University of Music , took over the direction of the choir. A little later, Chorus 116 was one of the most important Saxon amateur choirs.
The Chorus 116 feels obliged to the music of the baroque , classical, romantic and new music .
Cooperation partner
Chorus 116 maintains close relationships with the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of the Dresden Philharmonic and the Prague Colleqium Marianum, and in 2017 it cooperated with the State Youth Orchestra of Saxony for the first time .
World premieres
- Wilfried Krätzschmar : LEBENSZEIT , for mixed choir a cappella (based on the poem Contemplation of Time by Andreas Gryphius ), 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like no other. The Dresden Cross School in the GDR , 1st edition, Bild und Heimat, Berlin 2016
- ↑ Hope and Despair: Brahms and Treibmann in the Pirnaer Marienkirche. In: Dresdner Latest News , October 14, 2012 ( online as PDF ; 2.8 MB).