Collegium Cantorum Cologne

Collegium Cantorum Cologne
	The Chamber Choir Collegium Cantorum Cologne (2011)
Seat:	Cologne / Germany
Founding:	1992
Genus:	Chamber choir
Founder:	Thomas Gebhardt
Head :	Thomas Gebhardt
Voices :	SATB
Website :	www.collegiumcantorum.koeln

The Collegium Cantorum Cologne (CCK for short) is a German mixed chamber choir from Cologne .

It was founded in 1992 by the choir director and musicologist Thomas Gebhardt (* 1969 in Cologne ). The focus of the choir is on the music of the early and high baroque, whereby the historical performance practice is committed. In addition, the choir has made a name for itself with performances of new music. Collaboration with composers such as Markus Stockhausen , Donatus Haus , Karl Kaufhold , Friedrich Radermacher . The choir was active beyond the Cologne area at the German Catholic Day , the Ecumenical Church Music Festival and the Bayreuth Baroque Festival . The German premiere of Benjamin Britten's cantata The World of the Spirit was broadcast live by WDR radio in January 2005 as a live recording of the choir. In September 2006 the choir took part in the first modern re-performance of the Openpasticcios Giove in Argo by Georg Friedrich Händel in the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth .

CD publications

Daniel and Henry Purcell , Music for St Cecilia (concert recording)
Joseph Haydn : The Creation (concert recording)
Gioachino Rossini : Petite Messe solennelle (concert recording)
Heinrich Schütz : St. John Passion / Franz Liszt : Via Crucis (concert recording)
Markus Stockhausen / Donatus Haus: music of the spheres (concert recording)