Girls' choir at St. Eberhard Cathedral

Girls' choir at St. Eberhard Cathedral
Seat:	Stuttgart / Germany
Founding:	1994
Genus:	Girls choir
Head :	Christian Weiherer
Voices :	100

The girls' choir at St. Eberhard Cathedral was founded in January 1994 by cathedral music director Martin Dücker . Around 150 girls between the ages of five and eighteen sing in four age groups from the pre-school to the chamber choir. The choir has been in the hands of Domkapellmeister Christian Weiherer since 2016 .

The main task of the choir is liturgical singing in the St. Eberhard Cathedral .

The repertoire ranges from Taizé and Gregorian chants to demanding motets and masses from the 17th to 20th centuries.

Appearances

The choir can mainly be heard in the Stuttgart region in church services and spiritual concerts. He also gives an annual benefit concert in favor of sick children in the Stuttgart region. Appearances and concert tours also take the choir far beyond the borders of Baden-Württemberg and Germany, for example the annual Advent singing of the Aufbauchor and concert tours etc. a. to Cologne to the Pueri Cantores Choir Festival , to Essen (Werden Abbey Church and Cathedral), Mainz (Cathedral), to the Catholic Day in Hamburg, to Bochum, Recklinghausen and Essen, 2001 to Limburg (Cathedral), Magdeburg (Cathedral), Dresden (Court Church ) and Meißen (cathedral); 2002 to the International Pueri Cantores Congress in Lyon; 2003 to Münster and Warendorf; 2004 to the Mannheim Organ Days, to the Holy Rock Days in Trier, to Rome and to Cologne for the Pueri Cantores Choir Festival 2004.

structure

The choir is divided into

• Vorola
• Young choir
• Aufbauchor
  • Advanced Choir I
  • Advanced Course II
• Concert choir
  • Advanced Course II
  • Chamber choir

Web links

• Girls' Choir. Catholic city dean of Stuttgart 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Girls' Choir. Catholic city dean of Stuttgart, accessed on February 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ people. Catholic city dean of Stuttgart, accessed on February 26, 2019 .