New vocal soloists Stuttgart

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Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart is an ensemble for new music .

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The Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (NVS) are a chamber ensemble of seven singers who specialize in contemporary vocal music and musical theater . The ensemble works under the umbrella of the institution Music of the Centuries, based in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart .

history

The Neue Vocalsolisten were founded in 1984 by the conductor Manfred Schreier. The ensemble was initially made up of twelve solo voices and was in the tradition of Clytus Gottwald's Schola Cantorum. The Neue Vocalsolisten have been operating as a chamber music ensemble without a conductor since 2000 .

The seven concert and opera soloists specialize in developing new vocal techniques and forms of articulation, which they develop in close collaboration with composers. Every year, 20 to 30 new works are created for the ensemble. Each season the Neue Vocalsolisten complete around 35 concert tours with around 60 appearances at international festivals and concert series such as ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart , Donaueschinger Musiktage , MaerzMusik (Berlin), Festival d'Automne, Salzburg Festival , Warsaw Autumn , Lucerne Festival , Venice Biennale, Ultima (Oslo) or the Festival van Vlaanderen (Gent).

Since the beginning of their chamber music work, the Neue Vocalsolisten have premiered well over 200 works written especially for them by composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen , Salvatore Sciarrino , Oscar Bianchi , Dieter Schnebel , Georges Aperghis , Lucia Ronchetti , José María Sánchez Verdú , Carola Bauckholt , Andreas Dohmen , Jennifer Walshe , Friedrich Cerha , Nikolaus Brass , Beat Furrer , Rebecca Saunders , Martin Schüttler , Brian Ferneyhough , Oscar Strasnoy , and Wolfgang Rihm .

In addition to participating in large music theater projects, the singers are particularly developing vocal chamber music theater. These include productions such as “Geschichte” by Oscar Strasnoy, “Freizeitspektakel” by Hannes Seidl and Daniel Kötter , “Visiones ficciones” with works by Elena Mendoza , José María Sánchez-Verdú and Michael Hirsch , “Heart” by Luca Francesconi , “Two Scenes for 7 voices ”by Friedrich Cerha or“ Pinocchio, una storia parallela ”by Lucia Ronchetti.

The singers work regularly with visual artists, writers, video artists and experts in electronic music in interdisciplinary projects. With the “Escalier du chant” project by the conceptual artist Olaf Nicolai , the Neue Vocalsolisten have so far performed in the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne , in Salzburg and in the Louvre in Paris.

Members

Johanna Zimmer , Susanne Leitz-Lorey (soprano), Truike van der Poel (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Gloger (countertenor), Martin Nagy (tenor), Guillermo Anzorena (baritone) and Andreas Fischer (bass).

Musical theater productions

  • "History" by Oscar Strasnoy, world premiere in Stuttgart 2004
  • “Shadowtime” by Brian Ferneyhough, premiered at the Munich Biennale 2004, then in Paris, London and New York.
  • "History" by Oscar Strasnoy, world premiere in Stuttgart 2004
  • “Shadowtime” by Brian Ferneyhough, premiered at the Munich Biennale 2004, then in Paris, London and New York.
  • "Interzone". Songs and pictures for voices, video and ensemble by Enno Poppe, first performance in 2004 at the Berliner Festspiele, then in Huddersfield.
  • “Work, food, apartment” by Enno Poppe, world premiere in Munich 2008
  • “Murmullos de Paramo” by Julio Estrada first performed in 2006 in Madrid, then in Stuttgart, Venice and Mexico City
  • “Visiones ficciones” with music by Michael Hirsch, José-María Sánchez-Verdú, world premiere in Munich 2009
  • “Aura” by José-María Sánchez-Verdú, premiered in 2009 in Madrid, then in Stuttgart, Venice, Berlin and Hamburg.
  • “Leisure spectacle” by Hannes Seidl and Daniel Kötter, premiered in 2010 at the Venice Biennale, then in Stuttgart, Madrid, Oslo and Warsaw.
  • "Atlas. Islas de Utopia ”, by José-María Sánchez-Verdú, premiered in 2013 at the Herrenhausen Art Festival, then in Madrid and Stuttgart.
  • “Mediterranean Voices” video concert installation about twelve Mediterranean identities with works by Evis Sammoutis, Silvia Rosani, Zad Moultaka, Josep Sanz, Zeynep Gedizlioglu, Zaid Jabri, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Brahim Kerkour, Nimrod Katzir, Amr Okba, Samir Odeh -Tamimi and Dániel Péter Biró, world premiere ECLAT. Festival New Music Stuttgart 2014
  • "Utopias." Musical chamber theater by Dieter Schnebel, world premiere in 2014 at the Munich Biennale
  • "Sommertag" by Nikolaus Brass, world premiere in 2014 at the Munich Biennale
  • "Buenos Aires" by Simon Steen-Andersen, world premiere in 2014 at the Ultima Festival in Oslo

Awards

Discography

  • 1999: IOSIS. To Gesualdo (Cross Media Opera); Andreas Dohmen - Portraits and Repetition, col legno
  • 2002: fuoco e ghiaccio - Sciarrino, Gesualdo, Fedele; stradivarius
  • 2002: Luigi Nono; Quando stanno morendo
  • 2003: everything theater: Berio - Hidalgo - Aperghis - Perezzani - Ronchetti - Bauckholt; stradivarius
  • 2005: Brian Ferneyhough: Shadowtime, BBC
  • 2005: Luciano Berio: Canticum novissimi testamenti, a-ronne; WERGO
  • 2006: Enno Poppe: Interzone. Songs and Pictures, KAIROS 0012552 KAI
  • 2006: Beat Furrer: Fama, KAIROS 0012562KAI
  • 2009: Jay Schwartz - portrait, WERGO
  • 2009: Lucia Ronchetti: Shipwreck with a spectator; Pinocchio, una storia parallela; Il sonni di Atys, stradivarius
  • 2009: Salvatore Sciarrino: 12 Madrigali, col legno
  • 2010: Annette Schmucki - portrait. Musiques Suisses / Grammont Portrait (Working Group for the Promotion of Swiss Music)
  • 2010: José María Sánchez-Verdú: AURA; CAIROS
  • 2011: Elena Mendoza: niebla, fe de erratas, gramática de lo indecible, WERGO
  • 2011: Samir Odeh-Tamimi - portrait, WERGO
  • 2012: Sarah Nemtsov: a long way away - passage - hoqueti; WERGO
  • 2012: Lucia Ronchetti: Dramaturgy (Hombre de mucha gravedad; Pinocchio, una storia parallela; Hamlet's Mill), KAIROS
  • 2013: Oscar Bianchi: MATRA, Cypres records
  • 2013: Madrigali - works by Andreas Dohmen, Clemens Gadenstätter, Johannes Schöllhorn and José-María Sánchez-Verdú, col legno
  • 2013: Georges Aperghis: Wölfli Kantata, Cypres records (Distribution: Naxos)
  • 2013: Oscar Bianchi: Portrait, Musiques Suisses CTS-M 138 (German Record Critics' Award)
  • 2013: Georges Aperghis: wölfli-kantata, Cypres CYP5625 (quarterly award and annual award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik 2014)
  • 2019: Turgut Ercetin: Panopticon Specularities, Edition RZ ED.RZ10024

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