Evangelical youth choir of the Palatinate

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Evangelical youth choir of the Palatinate
Seat: Speyer / Germany
Carrier: Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
Founding: 1951
Genus: mixed choir
Founder: Adolf Graf
Head : Jochen Steuerwald
Voices : SATB
Website : [1]

The Evangelical Youth Choir of the Palatinate is a mixed selection choir sponsored by the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church) based in Speyer .

history

The youth choir was founded in 1951 in Landau of Adolf Graf , the first regional church music director (LKMD) of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate. Graf's successor, LKMD Heinz Markus Göttsche , continued to shape the sound appearance, steadily expanded the repertoire and made the choir known across borders. LKMD Udo R. Follert put the focus of the work with the youth choir on the late Romantic era. Since 1995 the youth choir has been under the direction of LKMD Jochen Steuerwald (until 2008 in his function as monastery and district choirmaster in Landau in the Palatinate) and is supported by a support association, the Freundeskreis der Evangelischen Jugendkantorei der Pfalz eV, ideally, practically and financially .

The youth choir integrates talented teenagers and young adults into the church music process. The choir develops three to four programs per year on a project basis. Demanding literature from early music to modern music forms the repertoire, as well as a cappella programs and oratorio works from all epochs. One of the main focuses of the choir's work is newer and newest compositions, which since 1995 has premiered several commissioned works under Jochen Steuerwald. The ensemble presents itself with concerts and church ceremonies both within the regional church and throughout Germany. Regular radio and audio recordings have documented the musical work of the choir for decades.

Concert tours

The choir has toured many countries on concert tours - France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Romania, Sweden, Poland and Slovenia, for example - and took part in competitions.

Awards

Most recently, the choir won a prize at the German Choir Competition in Weimar in 2014 (third prize in the mixed chamber choirs category and special prize in the folk song category ). In the 2012/2013 season, the youth choir was chosen by chief conductor Marcus Creed as the sponsor choir of the SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart .

Artists and personalities emerging from the choir

(Sorted by year of birth, if known)

  • Karl Hochreither (1933–2018), organist, conductor, author
  • Eberhard Cherdron (* 1943), theologian, former church president of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
  • Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter (* 1943), theologian, former bishop of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church
  • Volker Hempfling (* 1944), church musician, choir director, university professor
  • Ulrich Loschky (* 1946), school and church musician, church music director, former cantor in Neustadt ad Weinstr.
  • Frieder Bernius (* 1947), choirmaster, conductor
  • Traugott Baur (* 1948), church music director, former trombone attendant of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
  • Gunther Martin Göttsche (* 1953), church musician, composer, university lecturer
  • Margit Conrad (* 1955), doctor and politician, former Rhineland-Palatinate Environment Minister
  • Jürgen Linn (* 1959), opera singer (baritone)
  • Markus Henz (* 1962), church musician, district cantor in the dean's office at Alsenz and Lauter
  • Hans-Ulrich Ihlenfeld (* 1963), politician, district administrator of the Bad Dürkheim district
  • Winfried Kuntz, church musician, cantor in Bad Belzig near Potsdam
  • Rüdiger Linn, singer (tenor), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
  • Jochen Steuerwald (* 1967), church musician, regional church music director of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
  • Markus Eichenlaub (* 1970), church musician, cathedral organist and former diocesan church music director of the Speyer diocese
  • Dominik Wörner (* 1970), singer (bass baritone) and church musician
  • Maurice Antoine Croissant (* 1974), church musician, district cantor in Pirmasens
  • Annette Postel , entertainer, music cabaret artist, presenter, chanson singer ("Chanteuse")
  • Jens Wollenschläger (* 1976), church musician, organist at the collegiate church in Tübingen, university professor
  • Johannes Kaleschke (* 1977), singer (tenor), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
  • Daniel Schreiber (* 1979), singer (tenor), Die Singphoniker München
  • Andreas Hoffmann (* 1980), church musician, regional cantor for the Aachen-Land region
  • Philip Niederberger (* 1981), singer (baritone), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
  • Johannes Pflüger (* 1983), church musician, district cantor of the Evangelical Church District Bonn
  • Robert Selinger, (* 1987), church musician, cantor at the Kreuzkirche Munich, university lecturer
  • Peter Gortner (* 1989), church musician, cantor at the Christ Church in Karlsruhe
  • Wolfgang Heilmann (* 1991), church musician, district cantor in Bad Bergzabern and Germersheim
  • Nora Steuerwald (* 1993), singer (mezzo-soprano)

Discography

  • Masterpieces of motet art. Choral music from five centuries (1976)
  • Felix Draeseke: The Mystery of Christ - Evangelical Youth Choir of the Palatinate, Palatinate Kurrende, Heilbronner Vocal Ensemble and State Philharmonic in Breslau (1990)
  • A rose has sprung up. Christmas choir and wind music from five centuries, Evangelical Youth Choir of the Palatinate and Palatinate Trumpet Service (1999)
  • Go out my heart German folk songs from four centuries (2003)
  • Come Jesus Come (Masterpieces of Motet Art 2) (2005)
  • Louis Lewandowski: 18 liturgical psalms for solos, Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz and Robert Selinger at the organ (2007)
  • Lux perpetua luceat eis - Requiem settings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Eduard Pütz , Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz and Cappella Istropolitana Bratislava (2011)
  • His praise endures forever. Psalms and motets from Claudio Monteverdi's Selva morale e spirituale (1641), Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz, Baroque soloists and Cappella Sagittariana Dresden (2017)

literature

  • Evangelical youth choir of the Palatinate. Festschrift for the 40th anniversary . o. O. 1991
  • 60 years of the Evangelical Youth Choir of the Palatinate. 1951-2011 . Speyer: Verlagshaus Speyer, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ev. Church music Palatinate. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz »Choir history since 1951. Retrieved on November 3, 2018 (German).
  3. ^ Website of the choir
  4. ↑ Timeline of the choir
  5. ↑ Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz - Prize winners at the 9th German Choir Competition in Weimar ( Memento from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), evpfalz.de, June 3, 2014
  6. ↑ SWR press report
  7. ^ Metropolnews editorial staff: Evangelische Jugendkantorei becomes the sponsor choir of the SWR Vocal Ensemble . In: www.Metropolnews.info . ( metropolnews.info [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  8. ↑ New godfather choir for SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed March 30, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz »60 years youth choir 2011. Retrieved on April 10, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter: Beginners: Time stories of my life . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2013, ISBN 978-3-641-13292-7 ( google.de [accessed on November 5, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz »60 years youth choir 2011. Retrieved on December 4, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Evangelische Jugendkantorei der Pfalz »60 years youth choir 2011. Retrieved on April 10, 2018 (German).
  13. ↑ From the hall to the Scala. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Evangelical Congregational Letter . In: http://www.planebruch.de/_media/gemeindebrief_februar_2010.pdf . 2010, accessed March 30, 2020 (February-April 2010).
  15. ^ Members of the SWR vocal ensemble: Rüdiger Linn | SWR vocal ensemble | SWR Classic. May 19, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  16. ↑ NimmZwo Medien GmbH: Church in the SWR. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  17. ^ Members of the SWR vocal ensemble: Johannes Kaleschke | SWR vocal ensemble | SWR Classic. May 19, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  18. ↑ The Singphoniker The Ensemble. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Between homesickness and wanderlust. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Demanding and good. Retrieved December 11, 2019 .
  21. ^ Publications - Robert Selinger. Accessed December 12, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ Home | Organist | Heidelberg | Peter Gortner. Accessed December 2, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Handel's “Messiah” on the debut. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Grew up with an abundance of sounds. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .