Darmstadt Concert Choir
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| Seat: | Mauerstr. 17, 64289 Darmstadt , Germany
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| Founding: | 1977 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Wolfgang Seeliger |
| Head : | Wolfgang Seeliger |
| Website : | https://www.konzertchor-darmstadt.de |
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 38.7 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 36.4 ″ E The Darmstadt Concert Choir under the direction of Wolfgang Seeliger is one of the most famous choirs in Germany. Since it was founded in the autumn of 1977, the choir has made guest appearances in almost all major European concert halls and has been invited to tour the United States , Israel , North and South Korea , Japan and Indonesia . Radio, television and CD recordings are added to the busy concert activity. The pursuit of lively music communication is the most important working and style principle of the choir. In the intensive work phases of a production, the joint development of the expressive content of the music is always in the foreground. In addition, the choir develops completely new forms of representation for the scenic implementation of concert works.
The staged performances of Orff's Carmina Burana , Handel's Belshazzar and Honegger's King David, among others, caused a sensation . The Darmstadt Concert Choir offers professionally trained singers from all parts of Germany a field of activity that goes beyond the usual paths of classical music production.
The choir works regularly with the Darmstädter Hofkapelle and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra Krakow . There has also been collaboration with well-known conductors and orchestras such as the Saarbrücken and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, the Moscow Bolshoi Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic under conductors such as Gary Bertini and Dennis Russell Davies , Gianluigi Gelmetti , Paolo Carignani , Alexander Lazarev, Leif Segerstam and Marcello Viotti .
In general, the concert choir's repertoire ranges from sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages to many premieres and world premieres of contemporary works (by Jean Françaix , Wolfgang Rihm and Mauricio Kagel, among others ). It encompasses the entire range of a cappella literature as well as popular music and opera and oratorios . The pursuit of lively music communication is the primary working and style principle of the Darmstadt Concert Choir. In the intensive work phases of a production, the joint development of the expressive content of the music is always in the foreground. In addition to the standard works of choral literature, the choir particularly wants to bring rarely performed and unusual music to the fore.
The most important awards were the first prizes in the international choir competition " Let the Peoples Sing ", which is held by all radio stations in the world, in 1988 in the "Large Choirs" category, in 1990 in the "Chamber Choirs" category, plus the "Silver Rose Bowl" “Came as the best choir of the entire competition. In July 1989, the Darmstadt Concert Choir was invited to the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival for the first time, under the direction of the important violinist Gidon Kremer. From 1981 to 2000 the choir provided the opera choir of the Heidelberg Castle Festival.
Recordings
- Max Bruch : Songs for mixed choir a cappella, Vol. I
- Max Bruch: Songs for mixed choir a cappella, Vol. II
- Carl Amand Mangold : Abraham
- Johannes Brahms : German folk songs, complete recording
- Georg Philipp Telemann : St. Matthew Passion
- “Be silent still my heart”: Romantic choral songs
- Choir songs of the German romanticism
- Cantatas & songs for Christmas
- Concert choir Darmstadt sings Christmas carols a cappella
- Der Lindenbaum - Famous choirs sing German folk songs
- Songs for Mixed Choir / Scottish & Welsh Folk by Konzertchor Darmstadt
- Romantic German Folk Song by Konzertchor Darmstadt
- Giuseppe Verdi : Messa Da Requiem
Others
From 1993 to 2000 the choir was the organizer of the summer games it founded in the Kranichstein hunting lodge. In 2001, the Darmstadt Concert Choir launched the Darmstadt Residence Festival together with Wolfgang Seeliger. The choir takes an active part in several concerts at the Residenzfestspiele every year. At the invitation of the North Korean government and with the support of the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe Institute, the concert choir had the opportunity in April 2006 to take part in the North Korean “Spring Festival” in Pyongyang. As the first German choir in North Korea, he was able to promote international understanding and tolerance in a musical way. The Darmstadt Concert Choir is a member of the Association of German Concert Choirs (VDKC) and of the Music in Youth Working Group (AMJ).
The concert choir is located in the octagonal building in Darmstadt .