College choir

University Choir Dresden

The university choir is - like university sports and the university orchestra - an institution at universities , music colleges and technical colleges . It should give students the opportunity to be musically active during their studies. Together with the university orchestras and other musical ensembles, the university choirs see themselves as a contribution to the musical education of students and are often an institution of the Studium generale . In addition, they promote social and cultural life at the universities and make a contribution to their representative public image with public concerts. They are mostly available to students from all faculties, mostly also to alumni and other university members. At older universities, the choirs often operate under the Latin name Collegium musicum vocale and their leader is called University Music Director .

Recording and repertoire

The choirs are almost always mixed choirs with the voices soprano , alto , tenor and bass . The requirements for admission to the university choir are very different at the different universities: some choirs do not require any previous knowledge and do not audition. The joy of singing and the willingness to regularly take part in rehearsals are seen as decisive. Other expected choir experience, the safe use of the voice or the ability of sight-singing and test this in an audition.

The University of Vienna is characterized by the additional offer of two senior choirs for students over 55.

The repertoire is mostly based on European art music, including works of new music . Both a cappella works and choral works that are accompanied by the university orchestra are performed. Such an orchestra is seldom integrated into a common ensemble structure (example MünchenKlang ). At larger universities there are also special choir formations, such as madrigal choirs (example Münster and madrigal choir of the University of Music and Theater Munich ), pop / rock and jazz choirs (example Bayreuth), a division into large choir and chamber music choir (example Bremen) or es works from jazz are included (example Leipzig University).

List of university choirs (selection)

Order within the countries by city name

Germany

• University choir of the Collegium musicum Aachen , conductor Tobias Haussig
• University choirs of the University for Protestant Church Music Bayreuth , direction Steven Heelein
• Choir of the Humboldt University in Berlin , conducted by Carsten Schultze
• University choir Bremen , direction Friederike Woebcken
• Bielefeld University Choir , conducted by Dorothea Schenk
• Chemnitz University Choir , conducted by Conrad Seibt
• Clausthal University Choir, conducted by Antonius Adamske
• University choir of the Technical University of Dortmund , direction Heinke Kirzinger
• Dresden University Choir , conducted by Christiane Büttig
• Unichor TU Dortmund Head Heinke Kirzinger
• Unichor Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , headed by Silke Löhr; Mathias Staut
• Collegium musicum vocale of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , directed by Jan Schumacher
• University choir of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , directed by Winfried Toll
• Göttingen University Choir, directed by Ingolf Helm
• University choir of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald , conductor Harald Braun
• Halle University Choir , conducted by Jens Lorenz; Jens Arndt
• Choir of the Leibniz Universität Hannover , conductor Tabea Fischle
• University choir of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , conducted by Michael Sekulla
• Student choir of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , conducted by Fabian Pasewald
• Psycho-Choir of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , conducted by Maximilian Lörzer
• Choir of the Collegium musicum of the University of Cologne , conducted by Michael Ostrzyga
• Leipzig University Choir , conducted by David Timm
• University choir of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , conducted by Konrad Georgi
• Mannheim University Choir , conducted by Jürgen Weisser
• Choir of the University of Munich , directed by Matthias Stoffels
• Munich University Choir , conducted by Verena Holzheu
• MünchenKlang , headed by Thomas Hefele
• University choir of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , conductor Marion Wood
• Choirs from the Nuremberg University of Music , conducted by Alfons Brandl
• Osnabrück University Choir conducted by Joachim Siegel
• University choir UniSono of the University of Paderborn , direction Gundula Hense
• University choir of the University of Rostock , conducted by Thomas Koenig
• Soester HochschulChor , headed by Felix Jensen
• University choir of the State University of Music Trossingen , conducted by Michael Alber
• Academic choir of the Collegium musicum of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , directed by Philipp Amelung
• University choir of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences Zwickau , conducted by Ulf Firke
• University choir Wismar , direction Monika von Westernhagen
• Choir of the University of Witten / Herdecke conducted by Ingo Ernst Reihl

Netherlands

• Studentenkoor Amsterdam , headed by Servaas Schreuders
• Nijmeegs Studentenkoor Alphons Diepenbrock , headed by Hans de Wilde

Austria

• Graz University Choir, directed by Matthias Unterkofler
• Innsbruck University Choir, conducted by Geord Weiß
• University Choir Salzburg , conducted by Albert Anglberger
• Choirs of the University of Vienna , conducted by Vijay Upadhyaya
• Choir of the Technical University of Vienna , conductor Andreas Ipp

Russia

• Moscow Cathedral Choir, conducted by Nikolay Azarov

Switzerland

• Choir of the University of Basel , conducted by Olga Pavlu
• Unichor Luzern , headed by Andrew Dunscombe

For differentiation

Academic choral society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University Dusseldorf: University Choir. In: www.unichor.uni-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Participate - University of Dresden. In: www.unichor-dresden.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 . 
3. ^ Collegium Musicum Cologne: Participate . Retrieved April 17, 2019
4. ^ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Ensemble 22: New recordings. In: www.uni-muenster.de. Retrieved December 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Choir and Orchestra of the University of Vienna: Singing from 55 . Retrieved April 17, 2019