State Youth Choir North Rhine-Westphalia
| State Youth Choir North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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| Seat: |
 Duisburg , North Rhine-Westphalia
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| Carrier: | Regional Music Council |
| Founding: | 1979 |
| Genus: | State Youth Choir |
| Founder: | Regional Music Council |
| Head : | Erik Sohn and Robert Göstl |
| Voices : | about 60 |
| Website : | www.ljc-nrw.de |
The Landesjugendchor Nordrhein-Westfalen ( own spelling LandesJugendChor Nordrhein-Westfalen in ChorVerband NRW eV ) is a choir made up of teenagers and young adults from North Rhine-Westphalia and serves to promote the gifted. The state youth choir consists of around 60 singers aged 15 to 29. The choir is supported by the North Rhine-Westphalia Choir Association and the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia .
The project choir meets around eight weekends a year for rehearsals and concerts. He performs 10 to 15 concerts a year and takes a concert tour every year.
Chronology of the projects
1990s
- 1991 - concert tour to Germany ( Dresden )
- 1993 - concert tour to Germany ( Rostock )
- 1994 - concert tour to Russia
- 1995 - concert tour to Germany (Rostock)
- 1997 - Concert tour to England and Scotland
- 1998 - CD production Over the rainbow
- 1999 - concert tour to China
2000s
- 2000 - CD production Of serious thoughts and strange stories
- 2001 - concert tour to Poland
- 2002 - Concert tour to the Benelux countries
- 2002 - CD production in Paradisum
- 2002 - CD production The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 2003 - concert tour to Russia (Siberia and Moscow)
- 2004 - concert tour to France
- 2005 - concert tour to Spain (Barcelona)
- 2006 - Requiem (Mozart) by WA Mozart .
- 2006 - concert tour to the Czech Republic
- 2007 - concert tour to northern Italy
- 2007 - Messiah from GF Handel
- 2008 - CD production Messiah
- 2008 - "Magic Worlds"
- 2008 - concert tour to China
- 2009 - concert tour to England and Wales
2010s
- 2010 - concert tour to Austria and Slovakia
- 2011 - CD production Zeitenklang - Weltklänge
- 2011 - concert tour to Berlin , Poland , Lithuania and Latvia
- 2012 - concert tour to Switzerland
- 2012 - Performance of the B minor Mass by JS Bach
- 2013 - concert tour to England and Scotland
- 2014 - concert tour to France
- 2015 - concert tour to Sweden
- 2015 - Concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn
- 2016 - concert tour to Switzerland and the south of France
- 2016 - Concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn
- 2017 - Concert tour to East Germany
- 2018 - Concert tour in South Germany and South Tyrol
Choirmaster
The choir was founded in 1979 and initially directed by Fritz ter Wey . The conductor couple Christiane Zywietz-Godland and Hermann Godland headed the choir from 1989 to 2019. Erik Sohn and Robert Göstl have been the choirmasters together since 2019 .
restructuring
In 2019, the NRW Choir Association and the NRW State Music Council decided to reissue the choir with a changed age structure, artistic orientation and direction. The previous choir continues under the name of the Young Choir North Rhine-Westphalia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Chor live - educational and information organ of the NRW Choir Association, issue 04-2011
- ^ Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal, Helmuth Froschauer: The merry women of Windsor: comic-fantastic opera in three acts; (Complete recording in German without dialogues) = The merry wives of Windsor. 2003, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ^ GA BONN: Beethovenfest: Danced Philosophy. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Beethoven Festival to Hear: Alondra de la Parra conducts brilliant Mexico concert | DW | 10/31/2016. Accessed March 5, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Monika Willer: Less Bach: State Youth Choir NRW should be "poppier". December 12, 2018, accessed on March 5, 2020 (German).