Don Camillo choir
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| Seat: | Munich / Germany |
| Founding: | 1994 |
| Genus: | Jazz and pop choir |
| Founder: | Philipp Bernhard |
| Head : | Matthias Seitz |
| Voices : | 38 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.doncamillo-chor.de |
The Don Camillo Choir is a mixed jazz and pop choir from Munich . The ensemble is led by Matthias Seitz.
history
The ensemble was founded in 1994 as a youth choir. The choir now consists of around 38 singers.
repertoire
The repertoire of the Don Camillo Choir mainly includes jazz ballads, swing standards and cleverly arranged a cappella hard rock.
Appearances and awards
National and international competitions and festivals have taken the Don Camillo Choir to Mainz (Vocal Jazz Summit) and Marktoberdorf (Musica Sacra International) as well as to Austria (vokal.total) , Denmark (Aarhus Vocal Festival) and Poland (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Chóralny Wschód) - Zachód - Zbliżenia Radomsko) .
At the International A Cappella Competition in Graz in 2006 the choir was awarded a 2nd prize and the Ward Swingle Award. At the World Choir Games in Graz, in which 440 choirs from 93 countries took part, the ensemble achieved 2nd place in the jazz category in 2008 and was awarded a gold medal for this.
In 2009 the choir won the Bavarian Choir Competition in the category “Jazz a-cappella etc.” under the direction of its then choir director Florian Helgath and was thus invited to take part in the 2010 German Choir Competition in Dortmund . There the choir achieved a 3rd prize and was awarded the title “Participated with outstanding success”. In 2013, the ensemble again took first place in the Bavarian Choir Competition.
Discography
Three of the CDs by the Don Camillo Choir that have been released so far are marketed via a label.
- 2009: Good Bait (Spektral Records, SRL4-09049)
- 2011: Summer in the City (Housemaster Records)
- 2012: Honey (Housemaster Records, HOA 260764)
Web links
- Official website
- Youtube channel of the Don Camillo Choir
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musica Sacra International ( Memento from September 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Międzynarodowy Festiwal Chóralny Wschód - Zachód - Zbliżenia. (No longer available online.) Towarzystwo Śpiewacze im. Stanisława Moniuszki w Radomsku, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 29, 2013 (Polish). 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.
- ↑ World Choir Games 2008. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Interkultur, archived from the original on February 27, 2012 ; accessed on November 29, 2013 (English). 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.
- ^ Bavarian Choir Competition 2009. Bavarian Music Council, accessed on November 29, 2013 (German).
- ^ German Choir Competition 2010. (PDF) (No longer available online.) German Music Council, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 29, 2013 (German). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ CD "Good Bait" in the catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on November 29, 2013 (German).
- ^ CD "Summer in the City" in the catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on November 29, 2013 (German).
- ^ CD "Honey" in the catalog of the German National Library. German National Library, accessed on November 29, 2013 (German).
