Scala & Kolacny Brothers
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| Seat: |
 Aarschot
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| Founding: | 1996 |
| Genus: | Women's choir |
| Founder: | Stijn and Steven Kolacny |
| Head : | Stijn and Steven Kolacny |
| Voices : | 60 (SA) |
| Website : | www.scalachoir.com |
Scala & Kolacny Brothers is a women's choir from Aarschot in Belgium , which consists of over 60 members, girls and young women between the ages of 14 and 24. It is run by the brothers Stijn and Steven Kolacny . The choir became known in particular through adaptations of well-known pieces of pop and rock music . About 30 to 40 of the girls and the two brothers are usually present at the performances.
history
Scala was founded in 1996. The first choir rehearsal with 18 members took place on April 2nd, 1996. Initially, the choir, led by the two pianist brothers Kolacny, was active in the field of classical music . After appearing at choir festivals and competitions, Scala was named “Choir of the Year 1999–2000” in Belgium.
With the album On the Rocks released on December 1, 2002, the choir began to interpret various well-known pop and rock songs. The arrangements of the pieces for choral singing with piano and drum accompaniment come from Steven Kolacny. The album was extremely successful and was played a lot, especially by Flemish radio stations.
Today the choir performs regularly in different countries. In the second half of 2004 alone, there were eight appearances in Germany . Steven Kolacny plays the piano on stage and Stijn conducts the choir. Scala has already given radio concerts on the German radio stations Fritz , 1 Live and Delta radio . The Kolacny brothers also perform as a piano duo without the choir.
In September 2008 the first album Paper Plane was released, which does not contain any cover versions , but only original songs by Steven Kolacny. In the same year the album Dans les yeux d'Aurore was released. It mainly contains cover versions of the Belgian singer Pierre Rapsat, who died in 2002 .
Since 2009 Scala's cover version of the MIA song Hungriges Herz has been used for a television commercial for the Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken . On June 5, 2010 Scala performed at the final concert of ! Sing - Day of Song in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen as part of the project RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture . On July 15, 2010 a trailer for the Hollywood film The Social Network by David Fincher was released, which is underlaid with Scala's cover version of the Radiohead song Creep .
In 2015, the choir released its second, purely German-language album, Infinite, after Grenzlos . In 2016, Scala's song "Gorecki" was used in one of the episodes from season two of the series Gotham . The David Bowie Cover Heroes from the album Solstice is the background music for the trailer for the Hollywood film The Crazy Heroes Tour of Billy Lynn .
In 2020 the REM cover of The One I Love from the album Solstice was used in the television series The Good Doctor (season 3, episode 15).
Awards
- 1999–2002: Choir of the Year of the Belgian Choir Association
- 2000, May: Winner of the 48th European Youth Music Festival in Neerpelt, Belgium
- 2002, April: Winner of the 50th European Youth Music Festival in Neerpelt, Belgium
- 2002, May: second place at the 51st Florilège Vocal de Tours choir competition in France
- 2002, July: first place at the International Choral Kathaumixw in Powell River (Canada) Category: contemporary music
- 2003: first place at the International Choir Competition in Budapest, Hungary; Category: "Equal Voice Youth Choirs"
- 2003: Overall winner of the 6th International Choir Competition in Austria
- 2005: Winner in the Best Classic category at the German Radio Awards
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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 BE F
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| 2000 | Christmas Time Is Here | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: November 12, 2000
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| 2002 | On the rocks | - | - |
BE F5  (17 weeks)BE F |
BE W49 (1 week) BE W |
FR13 (19 weeks) FR |
First published: December 1, 2002
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| 2003 | Dream On |
DE42 (13 weeks) DE |
- |
BE F19 (20 weeks) BE F |
BE W14 (21 weeks) BE W |
FR132 (7 weeks) FR |
First publication: 2003
DE: 2004 |
| 2004 | Respire | - | - |
BE F50 (9 weeks) BE F |
BE W44 (19 weeks) BE W |
FR36 (12 weeks) FR |
First published: October 4, 2004
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| 2005 | Limitless |
DE42 (5 weeks) DE |
- | - | - | - |
First published: October 10, 2005
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| 2006 | It All Leads to This | - | - |
BE F14 (14 weeks) BE F |
BE W29 (11 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: September 1, 2006
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| 2007 | One-winged angel | - | - |
BE F49 (5 weeks) BE F |
BE W86 (2 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: March 23, 2007
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| 2008 | Paper plane | - | - |
BE F28 (4 weeks) BE F |
- | - |
First published: September 11, 2008
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| In the yeux d'aurore | - | - | - |
BE W11 (33 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: November 14, 2008
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| 2010 | Circle |
DE68 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
BE F39 (19 weeks) BE F |
BE W32 (7 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: May 28, 2010
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| 2011 | Very best of | - | - |
BE F19 (76 weeks) BE F |
BE W77 (5 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: February 25, 2011
compilation |
| Scala & Kolacny Brothers | - |
UK82 (1 week) UK |
- | - | - |
First published: June 3rd, 2011
compilation |
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| 2012 | December | - | - |
BE F12 (13 weeks) BE F |
BE W82 (6 weeks) BE W |
- |
First published: November 9, 2012
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| 2013 | Black moon | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: October 2013
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| 2015 | Et si on était des ans | - | - |
BE F106 (8 weeks) BE F |
BE W68 (10 weeks) BE W |
FR179 (1 week) FR |
First published: February 27, 2015
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| Infinite |
DE64 (2 weeks) DE |
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First published: May 22, 2015
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| 2016 | Solstice | - | - | - | - | - |
First published: June 24, 2016
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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BE F
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BE W
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| 2004 | Angel Respire |
DE89 (1 week) DE |
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First published: 2004
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| Cry out for love |
DE52 (9 weeks) DE |
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First published: September 27, 2004
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| 2005 |
Last Christmas December |
DE96 (3 weeks) DE |
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First published: 2005
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| 2007 | I Fail Registered |
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BE F5 (24 weeks) BE F |
- |
First publication: 2007
Regi & Scala |
| 2008 | Jardin secret Dans les yeux d'aurore |
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BE W36 (2 weeks) BE W |
First published: November 2008
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| 2009 | Louise under the ice |
DE29 (6 weeks) DE |
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First published: November 6th, 2009
Eisblume feat. Scala |
| 2015 | Elegantly Wasted Voices |
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BE F14 (5 weeks) BE F |
- |
First published: November 13, 2015
Regi & Scala |
More singles
- 2002: Road to Freedom (Road to Freedom; First published: 2002; Sergio & Scala)
- 2005: With or Without You / Clandestino (Respire; first published in 2005)
- 2007: Friday I'm in love / Somebody (One-Winged Angel; First published: 2007)
- 2008: Raintears (Paper Plane; first published August 29, 2008)
- 2008: Seashell
- 2008: Paper Plane (first published October 17, 2008)
- 2010: België (first published January 4, 2010)
Further collaborations
- 2005 - Indochine feat. Scala Starlight
- 2007 - Nena feat. Scala A song
- 2008 - Koen Wauters ( Clouseau ) feat. Scala Have a Nice Day
- 2010 - Regi feat. Scala Chasing Dreams
- 2011 - Kool Savas feat. Scala Nothing remains
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Scala & Kolacny Brothers BIOGRAPHY. ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: scalachoir.com .
- ↑ Volksbank Raiffeisenbanken TV commercial - long version. In: YouTube , August 6, 2009.
- ↑ Sebastian Dalkowski: 60,000 sing for the Ruhr area. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post . June 7, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 17, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Film trailer "The Social Network" ( Memento from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on YouTube
- ↑ Simon Vozick-Levinson: 'The Social Network' trailer: Who's that choir covering Radiohead's 'Creep'? In: Entertainment Weekly . July 16, 2010, accessed July 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Movie clips Trailers: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Official Trailer # 1 (2016) - Vin Diesel Movie HD. May 12, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Chart positions: DE UK BEF BEW FR
- ↑ Awards for music sales: BE
- ↑ Available as a bonus track on the album December, which was released seven years later
- ↑ With or Without You appeared on the Dream On album and is only included as a bonus video on Respire
- ↑ SCALA & KOLACNY BROTHERS - SEASHELL hitparade.ch, accessed on December 22, 2012
- ↑ SCALA & KOLACNY BROTHERS - BELGIË hitparade.ch, accessed on December 22, 2012