Jena Jubilee Singers
Jena Jubilee Singers | |
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Seat: | Jena / Germany |
Carrier: | Friedrich Schiller University |
Founding: | 1988 |
Genus: | Gospel , Spiritual , Jubilee |
Head : | Norbert Kleekamp |
Voices : | SATB |
Website : | www.jena-jubilee-singers.de |
The Jena Jubilee Singers are a choir of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .
The choir, founded in 1988, has dedicated itself to the traditional, sacred music of black Americans, i.e. the gospels , spirituals and jubilees. In addition, he sings modern church music, classical works and his own compositions, and goes on excursions to rock & pop.
The choir mainly performs in Thuringia , Saxony and Hesse , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein . So far , concerts abroad have been given in Austria , the Czech Republic and Italy . In 2005 the choir embarked on a fortnightly gospel tour in the United States .
Discography
- Rise Up Singing (October 2000)
- Gospel Mass (March 2000)
- Go Tell It On The Mountain (2001)
- We're The Jubilee Singers (April 2004)
- Celebration (March 2008)