Saxon vocal ensemble

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Saxon vocal ensemble
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Seat: Dresden / Germany
Carrier: registered association
Founding: 1996
Genus: Chamber choir
Founder: Matthias Jung
Voices : 12–28 (SATB)
Website : www.saechsisches-vocalensemble.de

The Saxon Vocal Ensemble is a German vocal ensemble from Dresden .

history

In 1996 Matthias Jung founded the Saxon Vocal Ensemble. The focus of the artistic work is the maintenance of the Dresden court music director Heinrich Schütz and the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach . In addition, there is the development and performance of important Saxon court music from the Augustan era. Choral music of the 19th century can be heard under new practical performance aspects. Works by contemporary composers are also regularly premiered, for example Siegfried Thiele's Gospel Vespers in Dresden's Frauenkirche or Karsten Gundermann's "Meißner Praise of Women" by Karsten Gundermann in Meißner Dom .

The Saxon Vocal Ensemble can be experienced again and again together with other ensembles, such as the Virtuosi Saxoniae directed by Ludwig Güttler , the Ensemble Alte Musik Dresden or the Batzdorfer Hofkapelle . In addition to a large number of radio recordings, the Saxon Vocal Ensemble can also refer to a number of CD productions, some of which have been awarded prizes.

Concert tours have taken the Saxon Vocal Ensemble through Germany and to festivals in France, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy . In 2009 the choir was invited to the Prague Spring and to tour Japan in the autumn . Several times a year the ensemble can be seen concerts in the Dresden Frauenkirche .

In 2011 the ensemble could be heard at the opening celebrations of the 3rd Saxon State Exhibition Via Regia in the French Friedrichstadtkirche in Berlin, as well as at the 20th MDR Music Summer in Leipzig. In the same year, the Saxon Vocal Ensemble could be heard again at concerts in Japan.

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