State Youth Choir Lower Saxony
| State Youth Choir Lower Saxony | |
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| Fig. | |
| Seat: |
 Lower Saxony
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| Carrier: | Regional Music Council |
| Founding: | 1980 |
| Genus: | State Youth Choir |
| Founder: | Regional Music Council |
| Head : | Jörg Straube |
| Voices : | between 50 and 60 (SS (SS) AA (AA) TT (TT) BB (BB)) |
| Website : | http://lmr-nds.de/index.php/landesjugendensembles/landesjugendchor |
The Landesjugendchor Niedersachsen (LJC Niedersachsen) is a choir made up of teenagers and young adults from Lower Saxony . The country supports talented young singers. Until 2009 the ensemble was part of the State Music Council (LMR) of Lower Saxony; from there the choir founded in 1980 was organized. In 2009, the LMR handed over sponsorship to the newly opened Lower Saxony State Music Academy . The patron is the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil .
The project choir is constituted annually to perform one or two independent projects in several concerts. New interested parties are integrated after an entrance examination with auditions , which usually takes place at the end of the previous year.
The young people between the ages of 16 and 26 can expand and deepen their singing and choral experience in the LJC under the guidance of well-known choir leaders and a professionally qualified team of mostly four voice instructors . The voices of the singers are promoted individually in individual lessons; In addition, vocal group work and choral vocal training aim to create a sound body that is as homogeneous as possible.
The State Youth Choir gives its members a variety of insights into choral music by introducing them to challenging works from different eras. The spectrum of the choir ranges from madrigals to contemporary compositions. The experiences with German and foreign guest conductors familiarize the young people with different schools and styles of choral work.
Working method
The state youth choir meets several times a year at various locations in and around Lower Saxony for work phases lasting several days. The programs developed there will be presented in several concerts directly after the main work phase and mostly on other concert weekends inside and outside of Lower Saxony.
The Lower Saxony State Music Academy in Wolfenbüttel has been a regular rehearsal location since 2009 . The Lower Saxony State Youth Choir gave a concert there before the official opening.
Chronology of the projects and their choir leaders
1980s
- 1980 - Head: Jürgen Jürgens
- 1980/1981 - Head: Manfred Ehrhorn
- 1982 - Head: Martin Schmidt
- 1983 - Head: Martin Schmidt
- 1984/1 - Head: Martin Schmidt
- 1984/2 - Head: Jörg Straube
- 1985 - Head: Jörg Straube
- 1986 - Concert tour to Portugal , director: Jörg Straube
- 1987 - Head: Jörg Straube
- 1988 - Direction: Jörg Straube, Elke Mascha Blankenburg
- 1989 - Concert tour to Tallinn , Estonia , conducted by Manfred Ehrhorn, Toomas Kapten
1990s
- 1990 - " Strannik - The Rasputin Story " by Jeunesses Musicales (musical production in Weikersheim ), director: Margarete Jobmann
- 1991 - concert tour to England , conducted by Michael C. Brewer
- 1992 - " Song of Songs ", director: Claus Bantzer
- 1993 - " Joke, Satire, Ironie ", director: Peter Henn
- 1994 - “ Jazz vokal ”, conductor: Christoph Schönherr
- 1995/1 - “ Davidde Penitente ” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( oratorio work, together with the Orchester Regional des Jeunes de Haute-Normandie ), conductor: Philippe Hui
- 1995/2 - " Marian chants ", conductor: Jörg Straube
- 1996 - " Le Roi David " by Arthur Honegger (oratorio work, together with the Lower Saxony Youth Symphony Orchestra ), CD production of it, conductor: Jörg Straube
- 1997 - “ O Täler weit ” (contemplation of nature in romantic choral music), conductor: Jörg Straube
- 1998 - “ Laudi ” (Scandinavian psalm settings), conductor: Dan-Olof Stenlund
- 1999 - “ Reewüh ” (1920s), director: Thorsten Kreissig , choir director: Hans-Michael Dücker , Fritz ter Wey
2000s
- 2000 - concert tour to Poznan and Wroclaw , Poland , conductor: Jörg Straube
- 2001 - “ Fire and Flame ”, concert tour to Estonia, director: Friederike Woebcken
- 2002 - “ The other Marienvesper (continuo version) ” by Claudio Monteverdi , conductor: Jörg Straube
- 2003 - Shakespeare settings, director: Jörg Straube
- 2004 - " Deborah " by Georg Friedrich Händel (oratorio, together with the Landesjugendchor Sachsen-Anhalt ), conductors: Jörg Straube, Wolfgang Kupke
- 2005 - “ From Bach to Dinescu - Sacred Choral Music from Four Centuries ”, concert tour to Rouen , Normandy , France , conductor: Johannes von Hoff ; Anniversary project for the 25th year of existence
- 2006 - “ Messgesänge im Wandel ”, including: CD production in co-production with NDR , director: Jörg Straube
- 2007 - “ A German Requiem ” by Johannes Brahms (together with the Braunschweig Youth Symphony Orchestra), conductors: Jörg Straube, Knut Hartmann, concert tour to Rouen in spring 2008
- 2008 - "From the Far North" - Scandinavian choral music, conductor: Robert Sund
- 2009/1 - " Israel in Egypt " by Georg Friedrich Händel (oratorio, together with the Landesjugendchor Sachsen-Anhalt ), conductors: Jörg Straube, Wolfgang Kupke
- 2009/2 - “ Sacred choral music ” with works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johann Sebastian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams , Edward Elgar and Knut Nystedt (with a concert at the opening of the new Lower Saxony State Music Academy), conducted by Georg Grün
2010s
- 2010/1 - " Carmina Burana " by Carl Orff , direction: Jörg Straube
- 2010/2 - Concert tour to Russia in the summer with mixed choral works, conductor: Thomas Posth
- 2011/1 - “ The Art of Courtly Music ” - Georg Friedrich Handel's Coronation Anthems and the Te Deum by Michel-Richard Delalande , directed by Jörg Straube
- 2011/2 - “ Sacred choral music of the Romantic era ” with works by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , Johannes Brahms , Max Reger and Peter Cornelius , conductor: Jörg Straube
- 2012 - " Free your Soul " - pop / jazz / crossover program in collaboration with Maybebop , director: Oliver Gies
- 2013 - “ Devoted to love ” - a cappella program spanning various eras on the subject of “ love ”, headed by Jörg Straube
- 2014 - “ Messa da Requiem ” by Giuseppe Verdi , together with the Hanover Bach Choir and the Lower Saxony Youth Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Jörg Straube
- 2015 - " Nordic Sounds " - Scandinavian and Baltic choral music, conductor: Florian Benfer
- 2016 - " Balcony scenes " - works by Claudio Monteverdi , Ralph Vaughan Williams , John Dowland and Einojuhani Rautavaara , direction and choreography: Louise Wagner , musical direction: Jörg Straube
- 2017 - “ Messiah ” by Georg Friedrich Händel , concerts with the NDR Radiophilharmonie among others , conductor: Jörg Straube
- 2018 - Jazz project with the Landesjugendjazzorchester Niedersachsen, conductor: Claudia Burghard
- 2018 - " Alexander Balus " by Georg Friedrich Händel , concert with the Musica Alta Ripa and soloists and other musicians, Göttingen International Handel Festival , conductor: Jörg Straube
Web links
- Official website
- Publications by and about the Lower Saxony Youth Choir in the catalog of the German National Library