Lunds akademiska kör
| Lunds akademiska kör | |
|---|---|
| Seat: |
 Lund
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| Carrier: | Lund University |
| Founding: | 1927 |
| Genus: | University Choir |
| Founder: | Anna Munck af Rosenschöld |
| Head : | Cecilia Martin-Löf |
| Voices : | 50 SATB |
| Website : | http://www.lak.se |
The Lunds akademiska kör (LAK), the Lund University Choir, is a young choir with a long tradition and high level of ambition. The choir was founded in 1927 as a women's choir and later converted into a mixed choir in order to be able to expand its repertoire. Most of the choir singers are undergraduate and postgraduate students with solid choral experience and great interest in music. Since January 2014 the choir has officially been part of the Odeum unit at Lund University .
LAK gives around ten public concerts every year and participates in university ceremonies such as the award of doctorates or professorial installations. The repertoire is mixed, but the focus is on classical a cappella music for choirs. Over the years of its existence, the choir has performed many great choral works, but also presented lesser-known pieces to its audience. In the last ten years LAK has performed Buxtehude's Membra Jesu nostri , among others , as well as Schütz's Christmas history with musicians on instruments typical of the time, Martin's mass for double choir and Nordic music by Werle , Tormis , Mäntyjärvi and Holten, for example . At Christmas 2009 LAK performed together with the Baroque Orchestra Rebaroque Bach's Christmas Oratorio and in 2011 Purcell's chamber opera Dido and Aeneas in a very popular scenic family version , with which the choir traveled to the 2012 Festival in Piteå .
In summer 2008 LAK traveled to Poland and took part in an international choir competition. Under the direction of Cecilia Martin-Löf , the choir won prizes for the best conductor, the best interpretation of a Polish piece, as well as the Grand Prix of the competition. Afterwards his concert tours led the choir z. B. to Berlin , Würzburg , Greifswald , in different parts of Sweden, to the Macedonian Ohrid and to California .
In autumn 2010 the choir recorded its second Christmas CD, En stjärna gick på himlen fram (A star is high in the sky) , together with folk musicians Emma Reid and Emma Johansson , as well as the orchestra Ensemble Mare Balticum . A Christmas CD not with traditional Christmas carols, but with Christmas Swedish folk music, newly arranged for choir by Cecilia Martin-Löf . This music has accompanied the active and former members of the choir in various forms, e.g. B. on two successful New Years tours to Northern Germany in 2013 and 2015.
In spring 2012 the choir undertook a trip to the Russian choral music world together with guest conductor Maria Goundorina and in spring 2015 one to the American choral music world together with guest conductor R. Paul Crabb . Together with Malmö Symfoniorkester and three other choirs from Lund, LAK performed Verdi's Messa da Requiem (2011), Beethoven's 9th Symphony (2013) and Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem (2014). The choir also works with other choirs and the Lund University Symphony Orchestra ( Akademiska kapellet ) - e.g. B. in an annual joint Christmas concert and larger works.
history
Lunds akademiska kör was founded in 1927 under the name Lunds kvinnliga studentkör "Lunds Studentinnenchor" by Anna Munck af Rosenschöld (later Anna Munck Falk), the chairwoman of the student council at Lund University . In 1948, when John Fernström was the conductor of the choir, it was converted into a mixed choir and changed to its current name.
Conductors
- Maria Håkansson 1927–1931
- Gerhard Lundkvist 1931–1937
- Eldhagen & Åhlund 1937–1941
- John Fernström 1941-1948
- LAK rests 1948–1951
- Nils Guttorp 1951–1954
- Olle Nilsson 1954-1966
- Bertil Hallin 1966-1969
- Carl Hevelius 1970
- Eva Bohlin 1970–1978
- Peter Wallin 1978–1990
- Johan-Magnus Sjöberg 1990-1993
- Lena Ekman-Frisk 1993-1994
- Fredrik Malmberg 1994-1996
- Harald Eikaas 1996-1998
- Sofia Söderberg Eberhard 1998-2005
- Christoffer Nobin 2006-2007
- Cecilia Martin-Löf 2007–