Hermann choir
The Hermann Choir is a six-member a cappella male choir.
Instrumentation and repertoire
With the musicians Simon Gramberger (1st tenor), Simon Scharinger (1st tenor), Stephan Wohlmuth (2nd tenor), Joachim Rigler (1st bass), Robert Pockfuß (1st bass) and Bernhard Höchtel (2nd bass) - the founding members Lukas and Johannes Sachsperger are no longer there - they have been singing since 2010 in a mixture of mühlviertler / innviertel / Viennese witty, cynical and dialect about typical Austrian and other circumstances. The meeting point for the musicians' rehearsals is in Vienna's Hermanngasse. The musical director is Bernhard Höchtel.
They appear in theaters, inns, jazz clubs and at festivals. Vocal ensembles can also be heard in well-known concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein or the Linz Brucknerhaus. The radio program Hoamatsound of the ORF regional broadcaster Radio Oberösterreich , which offers a platform for local music, dedicated a program to the Hermann choir . With their oeuvre, the vocalists show that pop does not necessarily have to be associated with high-level language and electronics, and they successfully use social media channels with trendy music videos. On the album Mei Goaddnzweag & I, the group set text by the Innviertel dialect poet Hans Kumpfmüller to music . The music genre is difficult to classify, it is neither folk music nor dialect pop, on online music portals it is under easy listening .
In the 2016 presidential election they supported Alexander Van der Bellen with a campaign song.
At the world premiere of Der Rüssel , the first full-length play by the Austrian playwright Wolfgang Bauer, in April 2018, the Herrmann choir accompanied the event with folk songs, hits and yodelling.
Theatrical performances
- since 2017: I don't like being doda in the theater Akzent
- 2018: The trunk at the Vienna Academy Theater
Discography
- 2014: Mei Goaddnzweag & I , OMdrom Music
- 2016: Without Panier , OMdrom Music
- 2017: Elegant , OMdrom Music
- 2017: 2 songs on the sampler wean hean vol. 18 , Wiener Volksliedwerk
- 2018: Live ( feat.Play Big Band) , OMdrom Music
Web links
- Homepage of the choir
- Live session in the standard editorial office: Hermann choir. In: Der Standard from March 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leopold Lippert: A toast with (dis-) harmonic sound. In: nachtkritik.de of April 20, 2018, accessed on December 17, 2019
- ↑ fm4.ORF.at/Soundpark / Gesangskapelle Hermann. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Viktoria Klimpfinger: "Between old men and boy band": The Hermann choral band in an interview about their new music genre: the a cappella dialect pop . In: Wiener Zeitung of October 2, 2017
- ↑ Julia Philomena: “We definitely don't see ourselves as missionary dialect preachers” - GESANGSKAPELLE HERMANN in an interview with mica . In: music austria from June 12, 2018, accessed on December 17, 2019
- ↑ Reinhard Kager: "The trunk" by Wolfgang Bauer in Vienna: When Africa comes to the Alps . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur from April 20, 2018
- ↑ Theater Akzent: I don't like to be doda , 2017, PDF