Hamburger Alsterspatzen
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| Seat: | Hamburg |
| Founding: | 1975 |
| Genus: | Children's choir |
| Founder: | Jürgen Luhn |
| Head : | Luiz de Godoy |
| Voices : | 100 (SA) |
The Hamburger Alsterspatzen are the children's choir at the Hamburg State Opera .
history
In 1975 Jürgen Luhn founded the choir in Hamburg under the name Norddeutscher Kinderchor Hamburg . Luhn was the second choir director at the Hamburg State Opera when it was founded. After the first record for Ariola , he renamed the choir to Hamburger Alsterspatzen in 1981. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Alsterspatzen won four international music competitions in a row, and television appearances also increased their popularity. The choir has released more than a hundred records to date . International tours were carried out regularly until 2004.
The choir takes part in opera performances with children's parts, but was not organizationally part of the Hamburg State Opera before 2019, but was privately organized by Jürgen Luhn. At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, the choir was transferred to the opera house as the children's and youth choir of the Hamburg State Opera . Luiz de Godoy took over the management.
Participation and repertoire
Girls and boys are accepted into the choir from the age of 7. Children with singing potential who the choirmaster does not allow for the main choir after the audition can continue to prepare in the prechoir.
At the Hamburg State Opera, the choir sang the children's roles in opera works such as Hansel and Gretel , Rosenkavalier , Pagliacci , Turandot , The Cunning Little Fox and Le Grand Macabre , recently Dead City , plus standards like the children at the Christmas market in the second picture of La Bohème or the street boys in Carmen .
Former
The former Alsterspatzen include:
- Christina Scheppelmann (* 1968), opera director
- Malte Neumann (* 1968), keyboardist in the rock band Selig
- Mojca Erdmann (* 1975), soprano
- Lucius Wolter (* 1979), musical singer
Awards and competitions
- 1st prize at the Certamen Coral de Tolosa in the category children's choir, Tolosa (Spain)
- 1980 and 1991: 1st Prize at Llangollen International Eisteddfod in the Children's Choirs category , Llangollen (Great Britain)
- 1st prize cum laude at the European Music Festival for Young People in Neerpelt (Belgium).
- 1st prize at the International Children's Choir Competition in Nantes
- 1st prize at the Harmonie Festival in Lindenholzhausen (Germany).
- 1st prize at the Oskarshamn International Choir Festival in Oskarshamn (Sweden)
- 2001: Johannes Brahms Medal from the City of Hamburg, presented by the Senator for Culture Christina Weiss .
Web links
- Official website of the Alsterspatzen
- Literature by and about Hamburger Alsterspatzen in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ann-Britt Petersen: Alsterspatzen celebrate their anniversary . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 23, 2010.
- ↑ a b Joachim Mischke: Alsterspatzen parents sound the alarm . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , August 11, 2004.
- ↑ Alsterspatzen on the Hamburg State Opera website, accessed in October 2019.
- ↑ Oliver Auster: "How beautiful have you become" or The steel door to a career . In: "Die Welt" from December 9, 2000.
- ↑ bs: Not too flat and childlike, but rather darkened . In: Die Welt, January 7, 2000.
- ↑ Llangollen International Eisteddfod Children's Choirs - Competition Winners ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved February 28, 2010.)
- ↑ Hamburger Alsterspatzen receive the Johannes Brahms Medal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: "Hamburger Morgenpost" from May 11, 2001.
