Ensemble Nobiles
| Ensemble Nobiles | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | A cappella |
| founding | 2006 Leipzig |
| Website | http://www.ensemblenobiles.de/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Paul Heller | |
tenor |
Christian Pohlers |
| Benjamin Mahns-Mardy | |
| Lukas Lomtscher | |
bass |
Lucas Heller |
Nobiles is an a cappella group from Leipzig . The name nobiles referred to politically active descendants of consuls in the Roman Empire.
history
The men's ensemble Nobiles was founded in January 2006 from members of the St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig . There the singers got to know each other and received a musically in-depth nine-year training.
Today the formation consists of the tenors Christian Pohlers and Paul Heller, the baritone Benjamin Mahns-Mardy and the basses Lucas Heller and Lukas Lomtscher. The repertoire ranges from the late medieval mass to the modern . Focuses both secular Männerchöre of romance , especially works by Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn , as well as an extensive church music Werkgut .
Nobiles collaborates intensively with contemporary artists such as the composer Manfred Schlenker , who dedicated his song motet Gott webt in einer Lichte to the ensemble , Volker Bräutigam , who arranged several works for a joint concert for the 35th Leipzig Jazz Festival, and the vocal quartet New York Polyphony or Daniel Hope . The vocal ensemble also embeds works by the Thomas cantor Georg Christoph Biller in the concert programs . They have also been working with the multiple award-winning vocal ensemble Sjaella for several years .
Under the direction of Biller, Ensemble Nobiles could be heard together with the soloists Gesine Adler and Reglint Bühler and the Ensembles De Morales, Thios Omilos, Noema and the Leipzig Barockorchester in July 2011 and 2013 in several live concert broadcasts on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .
In May 2012 the CD Eine Deutsche Messe was released on the Leipzig label Genuin classics . The recording is based on Franz Schubert's Deutsche Messe and musically reproduces a church service .
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Hugo Distler's death , the two Leipzig vocal ensembles Sjaella and Ensemble Nobiles recorded a CD with major works from the composer's choral oeuvre (published by Rondeau Production ).
In addition to their concert activities in Germany , the ensemble has also made guest appearances in Australia , New Zealand , Singapore , USA, Spain, Switzerland , France , Norway and the Netherlands .
occupation
- Benjamin Mahns-Mardy (baritone; since 2016)
- Lucas Heller (bass; since 2006)
- Lukas Lomtscher (bass; since 2009)
- Paul Heller (tenor; since 2006)
- Christian Pohlers (tenor; since 2006)
former members
- Felix Hübner (2006-2016)
- Gregor Praetorius (2006-2009)
- Julius Linnert (2006-2009)
- Falko Liebig (2006)
Prices
- 2013: Winner of the Saxon Choir Competition in the "Vocal Ensemble - H1" category and special prize from the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art
- 2014: 40th German Music Competition Bonn - Scholarship from the German Music Council with inclusion in the federal selection for concerts of young artists / Scholarship from the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation Lübeck / Special prize and scholarship from the German Foundation for Music Life
- 2014: 9th German Choir Competition Weimar - winner of the German Choir Competition in the category "Vocal Ensemble - H1"
- 2015: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in cooperation with the Rectors' Conference of the German Universities of Music and the Berlin University of the Arts - 3rd prize in the "Vocal Ensemble" category
- 2015: 13th Mednarodnega zborovskega tekmovanje (International Choir Competition) Gallus Maribor Slovenia 2015 - Best vocal group
- 2015: Contemporary Acappella Recording Award - Runner up in the “Best Classical Album” category for CD Bis willekommen .
- 2015: 9th International A Cappella Competition of the 16th International Festival for Vocal Music “a cappella” Leipzig 2015 - special award from Ensemble Amarcord and special award from MDR Musiksommer
- 2016: vokal.total.2016 International A Cappella Competition Graz - Gold Diploma and Ward Swingle Award in the "Classical Vocal Ensemble" category
- 2016: 48th Tolosa Choral Contest - 2nd prize in the "Vocal Ensemble - Sacred Music" category
- 2019: International A Cappella Competition of the International Festival for Vocal Music "a cappella" Leipzig 2019 - 3rd prize
- 2019: Tampere Vocal Competition - 1st Prize, Category: Un-amplified vocal ensemble
Discography
- In joy and sorrow (2010)
- A German trade fair ( Genuin 05/2012 )
- Hugo Distler 1908–1942 (Rondeau 11/2012)
- See you welcome (Genuin 10/2014)
- Landkjending / land detection ( Genuin 05/2017 )
- In God's own country - CD with incidental music for the play of the same name by Paul Heller's Landesbühnen Sachsen
Web links
- The homepage of the Ensemble Nobiles
- Ensemble Nobiles at the Leipzig classic label GENUIN
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press releases Leipziger Volkszeitung 2011 ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ In Memoriam Bach ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Goethe-Institut Australien In: goethe.de , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ^ Results of the 6th Saxon Choir Competition ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Scholarship holders German Music Competition 2014 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben: Awards for exceptional musicians ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Prize winner (since 2013) - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition In: fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ↑ 14th International Choral Competition Gallus - Maribor In: jskd.si , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ↑ 2015 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Winners In: casa.org , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ↑ Winners - vokal.total - International A Cappella Competition Graz In: vokaltotal.at , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ↑ Tolosako Abesbatza Lehiaketa | Facebook. In: facebook.com. Retrieved December 3, 2016 .