Schola Heidelberg

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The Schola Heidelberg is an international soloist ensemble for new vocal music based in Heidelberg .

history

The Schola Heidelberg emerged from the Schola at the Johanneskirche in Heidelberg-Neuenheim in 1992 and has since worked like the instrumental ensemble aisthesis - under the umbrella of the KlangForums Heidelberg eV

profile

Since its founding in 1992 under the direction of the conductor Walter Nussbaum, up to 16 singers have been internationally active in the special field of new music as well as its connections to early music. The ensemble's special culture of interpretation results from the differentiated appropriation of a wide variety of styles and vocal techniques through to microtonal intonation, voice and breath noises and the mutual relationship between works from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century and those of the 20th / 21st Century.

In close contact with leading contemporary composers (including Carola Bauckholt , Heinz Holliger , Helmut Lachenmann , Caspar Johannes Walter , Péter Eötvös , Stefano Gervasoni , Steffen Schleiermacher , Jan Kopp , Hans Zender ), the Schola Heidelberg develops an extensive repertoire, but also presents it regularly Own composition commissions, such as the series of works for the Netzwerk Madrigal project or the Prinzhorn project. The vocal ensemble has been united with the instrumental ensemble ensemble aisthesis under the umbrella of KlangForum Heidelberg eV since 1993.

In addition to its own Heidelberg concert series, Schola Heidelberg gives international guest performances at festivals such as the Salzburg Biennale, the Witten Days for New Chamber Music , the Berlin Music Festival, the Salzburg Festival , Milano Musica in Milan, the Flanders Festival, the Lucerne Festival , the Venice Biennale , the mdr music summer and works u. a. with Ensemble Modern , the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne , the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg , the Bamberg Symphony , the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the Berlin Symphony .

In addition to the artistic director Walter Nussbaum, the Schola Heidelberg u. a. worked in the field of new music with the conductors Johannes Kalitzke , Jonathan Nott and Hans Zender , but also performed early music programs under Paul Van Nevel .

Discography and awards

The 2001 CDs with works by Helmut Lachenmann by KAIROS and vocal compositions of the 20th century by BIS have won several international awards (Choc du Mois Le Monde de la Musique, CD of the Week The Observer). In 2005 the DVD "Furcht und Verlangen" was released, also with works by Lachenmann, with works in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk .
The CD with Gérard Grisey's “Les Chants de l'amour” at KAIROS was awarded the diapason d'or in 2008. The CD with Helmut Lachenmann's "Les Consolations", published by KAIROS in January 2009, was placed on the German Record Critics' best list 2/2009 .

literature

  • hearing the unheard - ten years of Schola Heidelberg and ensemble aisthesis, Heidelberg 2002 (with contributions by Jan Kopp , Cornelius Schwehr , Walter Nussbaum, Rudolf Frisius, Matthias Roth and others)
  • The sensuality of sound. Klangforum Heidelberg: the conductor Walter Nussbaum, the “Schola Heidelberg” and the “ensemble aisthesis”, new magazine for music 2002/01

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