Police Music Corps Karlsruhe

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Police Music Corps Karlsruhe is a wind orchestra in Karlsruhe . The conductor has been Mario Ströhm since September 2017.

profile

The Police Music Corps Karlsruhe was founded in 1981. Today (as of March 2019) over 60 musicians, including eleven women, belong to the orchestra, making the Karlsruhe Police Music Corps the largest police orchestra in Germany. The musicians belong to the police and criminal police, and numerous amateur musicians from civil professional life and retirees also take part. The orchestra is complemented by the two singers, Police Commissioner Claudia Müller and Susanne Kunzweiler, and one singer, Police Commissioner Toni Bergsch. With its public concerts, the orchestra promotes public relations and image cultivation and appears, among other things, at official and representative events of the police and regional authorities. Another focus is regular benefit concerts in concert halls, churches and festive events.

The orchestra has been led by Mario Ströhm since September 2017 after his predecessor, Heinz Bierling, suddenly passed away in November 2016. Heinz Bierling had already taken over the musical direction of the then recreational music corps of the Karlsruhe Police in March 1991 and was instrumental in its current success.

The orchestra has a development association that has set itself the task of providing ideal and financial support to the police music corps in police public relations work and the maintenance of brass music . The Police Music Corps Karlsruhe is a leisure music corps and therefore has to get by without the state's budget. This is why its support is required, among other things, for the procurement of musical instruments, the purchase of music and amplification systems, the purchase of sheet music, the implementation of benefit concerts and concert tours.

Appearances (selection)

Concerts and concert tours

  • Concert tours to Nottingham in 1990 and 1992
  • Participation in the international music parade in Karlsruhe in 1993, 1995 and 1996
  • Concert tour to Philadelphia / USA with performances at the 127th Cannstatter Volksfest in Philadelphia
  • Concerts in Speyer Cathedral in 2004 and 2007
  • Concert tour to Turkey 2011 with concerts in Istanbul, Sakarya, Ankara

Appearances on radio and television

  • July 19, 1998: "Always on Sundays", live appearance on the ARD television program from the Europapark in Rust
  • February 10, 2000: TV recording by the SWR - in front of the Karlsruhe Palace for the program "Abendmelodie"
  • 29./30. July 2000: "Always on Sundays", live appearance on the ARD television program from the Europapark in Rust
  • March 19, 2006, 8:15 pm: “Sunday tour”, participation in the entertainment program on Südwestfernsehen, recording from the Baden-Airpark Söllingen

Discography

So far, six CDs have been released by the Karlsruhe Police Music Corps:

  • Beat and Harmony , Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg 1993, No. BCD7056
  • Young Sound & Old Comrades , Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg 1997, No. B-ton BCD 7162-3
  • Friendship with the heart / Amitié du coeur , 2001
  • Lively and charming , Bauer-Studios, Ludwigsburg 2001, no. B-tone BCD 7259
  • Karlsruhe Palace Parade, Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg 2005, No. BCD7319
  • Christmas concert , Verlag Thomas Bierling, Walzbachtal 2007, No. Fidelitas FR 07.005

The proceeds from the CDs are used to support the Baden-Württemberg Police Foundation, which provides financial support to the families of police officers who have been killed or seriously injured.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Neusius: Small Lexicon of Police Music . Obermayer, Buchloe 2002, ISBN 978-3-927781-27-6 .
  2. ↑ Bierling (* 1939 in Augsburg ) joined the Bundeswehr in 1960 after his musical training , where he was soon transferred to Air Force Music Corps 2 in Karlsruhe. There he worked as a professional musician (clarinetist and solo saxophonist) for over three decades until his retirement. He led the big band there and conducted the Kandel city ​​band .
  3. ^ Events in 1990
  4. ^ Events in 1992
  5. ^ Events in 1993
  6. ↑ Events 1995
  7. ↑ Events 1996
  8. ↑ Events 1999
  9. ↑ Events 2004
  10. ↑ Events 2007
  11. ^ CD Young Sound & Old Comrades in the German Music Archive. Retrieved September 1, 2008 .
  12. ↑ CD Lively and charming in the German Music Archive. Retrieved September 1, 2008 .
  13. ↑ CD Christmas concert in the German Music Archive. Retrieved September 1, 2008 .