Gumpoldskirchner Sparrows

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Gumpoldskirchner Sparrows
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Seat: AustriaAustria Gumpoldskirchen
Founding: 1949
Genus: Children's choir
Founder: Josef Wolfgang Ziegler
Head : Elisabeth Ziegler (1969 to May 2019)
Yulia Mikkonen and Camilo Santostefano (since May 2019)
Website : www.gumpoldskirchnerspatzen.at

The Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen are an Austrian, mixed children's choir from Gumpoldskirchen in Lower Austria . From 1971 to 2003 they performed regularly at the Vienna State Opera , which is why they are also known as the Vienna Children's Opera Choir .

history

The ensemble emerged from a singing school founded in 1947 by Josef Wolfgang Ziegler . In 1949 Ziegler first founded the Anninger spatzen , which were renamed the Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen soon after they were founded. In 1958, the choir went on a four-month tour of North America. Further tours later led to various European countries, China , Japan and Canada . From 1965 to 1968, due to a serious illness of Josef Wolfgang Ziegler, the activity of the choir was largely suspended. In 1969 the daughter of Josef Wolfgang Ziegler, Elisabeth Ziegler (* 1946), took over the direction of the choir which she had sung for 15 years and which she directed until 2019.

In 1986 the choir took part in the opening of the Wiener Festwochen , and in 2006 they performed in the Musikantenstadl . From 1992 to 2000 the choir performed at the Christmas in Vienna event with Plácido Domingo and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , including in 1999 with the three tenors Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti . The recordings of these concerts were published by Sony Music . At the Theater an der Wien in 2011 they took part in the performances of Street Scene by Kurt Weil and in 2013 in Attila by Giuseppe Verdi.

In 2016 they made it to the finals of the ORF broadcast Die Große Chance der Chöre as one of eight choirs and made it into the top three. In 2017 they took part in the Baden stage in the musical Aladdin , in the performance of Mahler's 8th Symphony in the Wiener Musikverein and in the ORF program Magical Christmas in the Land of Silent Night .

Choir director Elisabeth Ziegler announced in May 2018 that she would resign after 50 years in May 2019. At the beginning of July 2018 they took part in the World Choir Games in South Africa, where they won two medals in the Champions Competition : gold in the category children's choirs / mixed boys' choirs and silver in the category musica sacra with accompaniment . In May 2019 Yulia Mikkonen and Camilo Santostefano took over the leadership of the choir.

The focus of the choir is on a cappella literature of the 20th century, the program ranges from classical to folk and Viennese songs to musicals and light music.

Discography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NÖN: Concert tour took the sparrows to China . Article dated November 4, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017.
  2. ^ Christian Fastl: Ziegler, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Pöllau singers' group wins the "Big Chance for Choirs" . Article dated November 25, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen - The Great Chance of Choirs 2016 ( Memento from November 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ orf.at - These are the first finalists ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated November 11, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ diepresse.com: Mahler's eighth, dared to succeed in the Musikverein . Article dated December 19, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017.
  7. ↑ Magical Christmas in the Land of Silent Night on December 23rd on ORF 2 . OTS notification dated December 5, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017.
  8. ^ NÖN: Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen in South Africa . Article dated May 12, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018.
  9. ↑ NÖN: Choir Olympics: Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen acted as ambassadors . Article dated July 20, 2018, accessed July 21, 2018.
  10. ↑ NÖN: Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen: Ziegler is to succeed in double leadership . Article dated October 26, 2018, accessed May 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen: Team . Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ Farewell present: lost hoods found . Article dated May 29, 2019, accessed May 30, 2019.
  13. ^ Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen: History . Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  14. ^ Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen: Discography . Retrieved November 12, 2016.