Swiss youth choir
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| Founding: | 1994 |
| Genus: | Youth choir |
| Founder: | Hansruedi fighting and Pascal Mayer |
| Head : | Nicolas Fink |
| Website : | Official website |
The Swiss Youth Choir (SJC for short) was founded in 1994 by Hansruedi Kuchten and Pascal Mayer from an idea by Hansruedi Willisegger, then President of the Swiss Federation Europa Cantat . Since then he has been sponsored by the Swiss Federation Europa Cantat and the Swiss Choir Association.
Since then, the Swiss Youth Choir has made it possible for talented and committed young singers from all cantons and linguistic regions of Switzerland to rehearse a cappella works from all over the world and from all eras under the direction of proven choir leaders.
In 2013 the Swiss youth choir successfully took part in the 13th International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf (DE): It won the 2nd prize and the audience prize.
history
The idea of the composer and choir director Hansruedi Willisegger from Lucerne to create a national youth choir was realized in 1994 by the two musicians Hansruedi Fighting, Brig , and Pascal Mayer, Grolley / Freiburg .
The Swiss Youth Choir has been under the patronage of the Swiss Federation Europa Cantat and the Swiss Choir Association since the beginning . He is also a member of the Jeunesses Musicales Suisse . The Swiss Youth Choir is supported by a five-person committee.
The Swiss Youth Choir offers young people the opportunity to continue their musical education and thus help to ensure the quality of the country's choirs or to become professional singers or conductors.
aims
The goal of the Swiss Youth Choir is to create a choir that meets the high standards of a national youth choir at home and abroad, and which, through the cooperation of young singers, is able to give impulses beyond the canton's and linguistic borders, promotes the choir members vocally and musically, entrusts particularly talented singers with solo parts, enables the members to encounter various choir conductors and to study important works of choral literature, who participates in national and international choir meetings and festivals and suitable singers in the Eurochoir and sent to the World Youth Choir .
repertoire
The Swiss youth choir has specialized mainly in a cappella works since it was founded. The range of styles extends from Renaissance and Baroque music through classical and romantic to contemporary choral music. The SJC regularly performs works by Swiss composers specially composed for it. So in 2010 the memorare for a mixed choir and female choir with two conductors by the Vaudois composer Valentin Villard. Another focus of the national youth choir is dealing with Swiss folk songs in well-known and less well-known arrangements .
Working method
The Swiss Youth Choir is put together anew every year. The new appointments each affect around a third of the singers, the number of whom varies between 45 and 50 members from the four language regions of Switzerland depending on the year.
The annual preparation of the concert program takes place on two weekends and in one intensive week. Before that, the choir members receive the scores of the pieces to work on independently.
The Swiss Youth Choir is led by two leaders for two to three years each. A voice trainer and assistants support the choir directors during rehearsals and concert periods. These individuals are experts in the field (conductors and singers) or advanced students (assistants) in their vocal training.
The Swiss Youth Choir organizes a concert tour every year in Switzerland and abroad.
The Swiss Youth Choir is financed through the income from its concerts and the contributions of its members, but also through donations from patrons , private companies, state institutions or foundations and through the lottery funds of most of the cantons from which the choir members come.
Conductors
- Yves Bugnon ( Lausanne ): 2002, 2009
- André Ducret ( Pont-la-Ville ): 1994-2001, 2003, 2007
- Andreas Felber ( Lucerne ): 2011–2015
- Nicolas Fink ( Berlin ): 2016 -...
- Laurent Gendre ( Lugnorre ): 2008
- Hansruedi Fighting ( Brig ): 1995–1997, 1999–2001, 2003, 2007, 2014
- Pirmin Lang ( Ebikon ): 1998
- Pascal Mayer (Grolley): 1995-1998, 2006
- Johannes Meister ( Walchwil ): 2006
- Johannes Rahe ( Osnabrück ): 2004–2005
- Philippe Savoy ( Friborg ): 2016–2017
- Clau Scherrer ( Schluein ): 2008–2010
- Hanspeter Schär ( Kreuzlingen ): 2002
- Dominique Tille (Lausanne): 2011–2015
- Fabien Volery ( Romont ): 2010