Folkerts (band)

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Folkerts was the name of a musician duo , consisting of the chanson singer Susanne Folkerts and the pianist and composer Gerhard Folkerts , who worked and lived in Uetersen in the 1980s and who also received the Pinneberg District Culture Prize there in 1984 .

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Numerous culture prizes - u. a. the first prize in the national singing competition of the German Music Council for chanson interpretation (1981) - and several appearances at the Hamburg Academy of Liberal Arts testify to the artistic standing of the music duo, which appeared together for the first time in 1978.

There were literary song or chanson evenings, e.g. Sometimes also in connection with recitation performed by the musician duo. Susanne Folkerts interpreted, Gerhard Folkerts accompanied her on the piano. The setting of the literary texts was done by Gerhard Folkerts, who also composed for other artists. The singer sometimes also contributed a setting.

The duo mainly performed settings by modern authors such as Heinz Kahlau , Gisela Steineckert or Peter Härtling , but also classics such as Wolfgang Borchert and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were in the repertoire.

Awards

  • 3rd prize in the national singing competition of the German Music Council for chanson interpretation (1979)
  • Winner of the German Phono Academy (1980)
  • 1st prize in the national singing competition of the German Music Council for chanson interpretation (1981)
  • Artist grant from the State of Lower Saxony (1983)
  • Culture Prize of the Pinneberg District (1984)

Discography

  • Folkerts: In Wetter (1984)

Programs (Free Academy of the Arts)

  • The claim of music - songs, songs, chamber music, Paul Dessau as a memorial. With Peter Roggenkamp and Jean Claude Gérard (1985)
  • In the chanson - writers of the academy set to music by composers of the academy (1990)
  • Wolfgang Borchert - Peter Striebeck reads prose Susanne Folkerts sings songs and chansons based on texts by Borchert, set to music by Dieter Einfeldt, Günter Friedrichs, Albrecht Gürsching, Norbert Linke (1992)

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  1. ↑ Culture Prize District Pinneberg

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