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Gotthold Black (2015)

Gotthold Schwarz (born May 2, 1952 in Zwickau ) is a German singer ( bass baritone ) and conductor . Since August 20, 2016 he has been the Thomaskantor , i.e. the director of the Leipzig Thomanerchor , which he has led ad interim since 2015.

Life

Origin and professional career

Growing up in the Saxon town of Zwickau, the son of the cantor of the Zwickau-Marienthal Pauluskirche, Hans Schwarz, had early contact with music. In 1964 he became a member of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir, from which his parents took him out after nine months because he was very homesick. Because his father was a church musician, Gotthold Schwarz was not admitted to the extended secondary school . From 1968 to 1971 he completed a professional training as a bookseller at the German Booksellers College in Leipzig.

From March 1971, he received church music training at the Dresden University of Church Music , which he completed in August 1973 with the B-exam . Since September 1973 he has been studying organ with Wolfgang Schetelich and Hannes Kästner as well as singing with Gerda Schriever and conducting with Jochen Wehner , Max Pommer and Hans-Joachim Rotzsch at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig . Here he passed the church music A-exam in 1978 and the singing exam in 1979. He wrote his diploma thesis under Max Pommer on the rhetoric in Johann Sebastian Bach's works. Schwarz completed his year of service as a church musician at the Katharinenkirche in Zwickau . Later he worked in private singing studies a. a. with Peter Schreier , Hermann Christian Polster and Helmuth Rilling .

Gotthold Schwarz lives in Leipzig.

Activity as a soloist, conductor and ensemble leader

After completing his studies, he began to work as a soloist , primarily as a cantatas and oratorio singer . Schwarz performed together with many well-known ensembles and conductors, such as John Eliot Gardiner , Philippe Herreweghe , Peter Schreier, Martin Haselböck , the Leipzig Thomanerchor, the Gewandhausorchester and the Dresden Kreuzchor . He has given concerts in European music centers - for example at the Salzburg Festival and the Vienna Musikverein - as well as in the USA, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Israel and Finland.

As an oratorio and lied singer as well as a conductor, Gotthold Schwarz has a comprehensive repertoire from the baroque to the modern, which is documented with numerous recordings. He works regularly with artists such as Frieder Bernius , Peter Schreier, Michael Schneider , Peter Neumann , Philippe Herreweghe, John Eliot Gardiner, Christophe Coin , Gustav Leonhardt , Michael Schönheit , Matthias Grünert , Jörg Straube , Ludwig Güttler and Ralf Otto as well as ensembles such as the Gewandhausorchester , Dresden Kreuzchor, Chamber Choir of the Frauenkirche Dresden , Bach Choir Mainz and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra . In 2004, Schwarz was a jury member for singing at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition .

Since the 1980s Gotthold Schwarz has also appeared as a choir director and conductor. In 1990 he founded the Leipzig Music Society , which is committed to promoting early music and of which he is the artistic director. He also directs the ensembles of the music society Concerto vocale Leipzig (founded in 1984) and the Saxon Baroque Orchestra (founded 1989/90); both are committed to early music, historical performance practice and its connection between song and instrumental music. Together with the Leipzig viol player Siegfried Pank and the Hamelin organist Hans Christoph Becker-Foss , Schwarz founded the baroque trio Schwarz / Pank / Becker-Foss in 1993 , which mainly performs music from the Bach family , but also other baroque music. He was also the guest conductor of the St. Thomas Choir and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. The Chamber Choir Leipziger Cantorey , which consists of members of the MDR Radio Choir, and the Ensemble Bach Consort Leipzig - both founded by Schwarz in 2012 - are primarily dedicated to baroque music.

Activity for the St. Thomas Choir

In 1979 he was appointed voice trainer of the St. Thomas Choir by Hans-Joachim Rotzsch . In 1992, 1999, 2002/03 and 2011 he was deputy of the Thomaskantor. After Georg Christoph Biller's resignation, he was interim Cantor of St. Thomas from February 2015 to June 2016.

To fill the position after the resignation of the previous Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller, the city of Leipzig appointed a selection committee in April 2015, which in July 2015 selected four possible candidates from a total of 42 applications. However, none of these were able to prevail after trial inspections, so that the search committee unanimously decided on May 20, 2016 to end the search process. The commission then unanimously proposed recommending the appointment of St. Thomas Cantor Gotthold Schwarz, who has been in office since February 1, 2015, to the council. In a special meeting on June 9, 2016, the Leipzig Council Assembly appointed Gotthold Schwarz to the office of Thomaskantor for the period from June 10, 2016 to June 30, 2021 with one vote against and one abstention. On August 20, 2016, he was solemnly inducted into office in Leipzig's Old Town Hall and received the city's certificate of appointment as the 17th successor to Johann Sebastian Bach from Leipzig's Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung . In addition, Schwarz has been an honorary professor at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig since 2016 ; at the suggestion of the Institute for Church Music, he was appointed as part of the matriculation ceremony on October 10, 2016.

Awards

On the occasion of the Day of German Unity , Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded Gotthold Schwarz the Cross of Merit 1st Class of 2017 for his services to the promotion of early music and his significant contribution in the past decades to the fact that the St. Thomas Choir is a cultural figurehead of the Federal Republic of Germany Federal Republic of Germany .

Gotthold Schwarz was recognized on March 9, 2018 at the opening concert of the 24th Magdeburg Telemann Festival for his "extraordinarily intensive and artistic standard-setting handling [...] of Georg Philipp Telemann's vocal work" and his "equally sensitive and excellent handling of Telemann's musical language" honored with the Georg-Philipp-Telemann-Prize of the state capital Magdeburg .

On September 15, 2018 Gotthold Schwarz received the Johann Walter plaque from the Saxon Music Council in the Torgau Palace Chapel .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MDR Kultur : The new Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz in conversation. Radio broadcast, May 25, 2016, 7:10 a.m.
  2. ↑ a b New cantor in office. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 14, August 20, 2016, p. 1.
  3. ↑ a b City of Leipzig: Gotthold Schwarz takes over the interim in the Thomaskantorat. February 4, 2015, accessed November 17, 2016.
  4. ^ Website of the Leipziger Musikgesellschaft e. V.
  5. ^ Website of the Saxon Baroque Orchestra
  6. ^ Website of the baroque trio black | pank | becker-foss
  7. ^ Website of the Leipzig Cantorey
  8. ^ Website of the Bach Consort Leipzig
  9. ↑ Succession in the Thomaskantorat - trial weeks for four candidates. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 16, September 5, 2015, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Gotthold Schwarz takes over interim in the Thomaskantorat. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 3, February 7, 2015, p. 2.
  11. ^ City of Leipzig: Successor in the Thomaskantorat - four candidates invited to trial weeks. August 25, 2015, accessed November 17, 2016.
  12. ↑ Gotthold Schwarz is to become the new cantor. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 11, June 4, 2016, p. 1.
  13. ↑ City of Leipzig: Finding procedure ended: Gotthold Schwarz is recommended as Thomaskantor. May 23, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
  14. ^ City of Leipzig, Office for Council Affairs: Template VI-DS-02883: Appointment of Mr. Gotthold Schwarz to the office of Thomas Cantor.
  15. ↑ The 17th according to Bach: Gotthold Schwarz. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 12, June 18, 2016, p. 5.
  16. ^ City of Leipzig, Office for Council Affairs: Extract from the minutes of the special session of the Council meeting, June 9, 2016, TOP Ö 7, 4:00 pm - 5:25 pm.
  17. ↑ With joy and humility to work. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 15, September 3, 2016, p. 2.
  18. ↑ HMT News. In: MT Journal. Journal of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig , No. 42, winter semester 2017, p. 12.
  19. ↑ Leipzig Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz receives Federal Cross of Merit. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . September 27, 2017, p. 11.
  20. ↑ State capital Magdeburg: Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz receives the Telemann Prize 2018. Press release of November 2, 2017.
  21. ↑ Event information at www.telemann2017.eu: Opening concert of the 24th Magdeburg Telemann Festival with awarding of the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize 2018 to Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz. www.telemann2017.eu, online portal. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  22. ^ Saxon Music Council: Johann Walter Plakette, Award 2018. Accessed on April 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Gotthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (bass baritone), conductor and Thomaskantor
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau