Boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy
| Boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy | |
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| Seat: | Dortmund / Germany |
| Carrier: | Choir Academy at the Konzerthaus Dortmund eV |
| Founding: | 2002 |
| Head : | Jost Salm |
| Website : | www.knabenstimmen.de |
The boys' choir is a performance choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy . The boys' choir was founded in 2002. About 40 boys between the ages of nine and fourteen sing in the concert choir.
The Dortmund Choir Academy is now the largest singing school in Europe. Divided into a children's and youth area and the concert area, 1,000 singers now sing in 30 choirs in the choir academy. It was founded in Dortmund in 2002. The aim of this singing school is to promote choir and solo singing at a high level and at the limit of professionalism with fun and joy.
education
The aim of training in the boys' choir is to train talented young singers who will later sing as soloists or in choirs at larger theaters or concert halls. The training starts around the age of six. Before that, the boys already go through preliminary choirs, in which they learn their first difficult singing techniques in a playful and child-friendly way. In addition to choir rehearsals, the boys have weekly solo lessons in which their singing voice is professionally trained. Not the drill to a desired choir sound, but the sum of the special voices, result in the unique sound of the choir. This approach to training goes back to Jost Salm, who has directed the boys' choir since 2006. The boys do not live in a boarding school, but stay in their home environment and also attend local schools. The boys 'choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy has established itself among the best boys' choirs in Germany under the direction of Jost Salm.
repertoire
The boys appear in numerous theater productions and concerts as a choir and as a soloist. The role of “Three Boys” from Mozart's “ Magic Flute ” is part of the repertoire of the boys' choir (including De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera , Wiesbaden State Theater , Cologne Opera ). The soloists of the boys' choir sang a. a. also the leading role of Miles in The Turn of the Screw von Britten ( Theater Kiel 2007), the Yniold in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande ( Jahrhunderthalle Bochum 2008) and were involved in the Mahler cycle of the Bochumer Symphoniker ( Philharmonie Essen 2008), where they performed the two boy soloists in the Klagende Lied (Laurenz Derksen and Carlo Wilfart).
The choir has appeared in productions such as Mahler's 3rd Symphony (opening of the Dortmund concert hall ), Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Münster), Britten's War Requiem ( Duisburg Philharmonic ), Wagner's Parsifal (opening of Bochum's Jahrhunderthalle with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ) and Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust (Orchester Philharmonique de Monte Carlo under Marek Janowski). In 2007 the choir sang in the German premiere of Ecce Cor Meum by Paul McCartney .
In addition to an extensive secular and sacred concert program, the boys' repertoire also includes opera choirs (e.g. Carmen , Tosca ) and a number of national anthems that the choir sang on the occasion of the 2006 Hockey World Cup in Germany.
The highlight of the choir's short existence has been the annual performance of J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio since 2008 by the boys in historical performance practice . As an absolute specialty, the soprano and altar arias are sung by soloists of the boys' choir.
In 2010 the boys' choir toured the United States of America for the first time and sang in Boston at the premiere and on the CD production of Ralf Gawlick's cantata Kinderkreuzzug based on a ballad by Bertolt Brecht .
In 2011, soloists from the boys' choir sang along at the widely acclaimed world premiere of the opera “ Sunday from Light ” by Karlheinz Stockhausen ; 2013 the Knappen in " Parsifal " by Richard Wagner at the Teatro Real Madrid and the Waldvogel in Wagner's " Siegfried " at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2014, the boy soloists of the choir made their debut at the opera festival in Aix en Provence in the role of the three boys in “The Magic Flute” . In October 2015 a soloist from the boys' choir sang in the premiere of the sequel to the famous musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber in Hamburg.
In 2017, a boy soloist from the boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy under the direction of Kent Nagano opened the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie . With the boys 'choir part in Arthur Honegger 's " Jeanne d'Arc ", the boys' choir of the Dortmund Chorakademie came back to the Hanseatic city in November 2017, together with the WDR Radio Choir and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock .
The program 'Christmas with the Federal President', which is broadcast annually by ZDF on Christmas Eve, was co-designed in 2017 by the boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy in the Marienbasilika Kevelaer .
Awards
In 2016 the boys' choir was awarded the renowned “Bajazzo” cultural prize.
Discography
- 2008: "Rejoice earth and starry tent", CD with Christmas songs and lyrics
- 2009: JSBach “Christmas Oratorio”, CD with cantatas 1–3 from the Christmas Oratorio with boy soloists and historical instruments
- 2010: Ralf Gawlick “Children's Crusade”, Musica Omnia, CD
- 2011: Antonio Vivaldi “Gloria”, CD
- 2012: Ralf Gawlick “Children's Crusade”, CD
- 2016: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi “Stabat Mater”, Rondeau Production, CD
Choirmaster
- 2002-2004 Zeljo Davutovic
- 2004–2006 Helmut Steger
- Since 2006 Jost Salm
literature
- John Erlicher: Dortmund Academy Boy Choir. In: American Record Guide , July / August 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Choir Academy Dortmund. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
- ↑ The choirmaster. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
- ↑ DIE WELT: "Ah, Christine!": The opera phantom is back . In: THE WORLD . October 16, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed October 9, 2017]).
- ↑ NDR: Oratorio “Arche” inspires the audience. Retrieved October 9, 2017 .
- ^ Thursday, November 23, 2017 8 p.m. Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc . ( elbphilharmonie.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).
- ↑ Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: ZDF broadcasts a concert on Christmas Eve: "Christmas with the Federal President" from Kevelaer . In: lokalkompass.de . ( lokalkompass.de [accessed on November 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Editha Ellebrecht: http://www.theaterundkonzertfreunde.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=29. Retrieved October 10, 2017 .