Vivat academia student choir
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| Seat: | Leipzig / Germany |
| Founding: | 1954 |
| Genus: | Student choir, repertoire from the baroque to the 20th century |
| Founder: | Jürgen Morgenstern, student at the University of Leipzig |
| Head : | Marcus Friedrich |
| Voices : | 40 (SATB) |
| Website : | www.vivatacademia.de |
The student choir Vivat academia is a mixed student choir in Leipzig .
history
The student choir Vivat academia Leipzig was founded in 1954 by the student Jürgen Morgenstern, at that time it was affiliated with the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department of the University of Leipzig and was called Ensemble Pawel Kortschagin for almost four decades . The repertoire included famous operetta choirs, student songs as well as German and international folk songs. In the 1960s, the ensemble rehearsed and performed several operettas and musicals (including "Free Wind" by Isaak Dunajewski in 1961 and 1967, "My Blue Sky" by Gyöngg, "The Bells of Corneville" by Robert Planqueth in 1964) , "Harlem Melody" by Vojtech Cach 1966 and La Périchole). In July 1967 the student ensemble went on a trip abroad to Kiev and the Crimea. It was represented several times at the GDR Workers' Festival.
Led by Dieter Graubner from 1976 onwards, over time it developed into today's student choir, which has been called Vivat academia since 1991, borrowed from the student song Gaudeamus igitur . It brings together current and former music-loving students from all Leipzig universities. In 1984 the Leipzig Opera House choir performed Robert Planquette's operetta “The Bells of Corneville” together with orchestra and soloists in Borna . In the same year, sound recordings for the four-part television series “Johann Sebastian Bach” (GDR / Hungary) with Ulrich Thein followed, and a year later a performance of Orff's “ Carmina Burana ” in the Leipzig Gewandhaus together with the Leipzig University Choir under the direction of Max Pommer .
At the beginning of the 90s the choir made regular choral tours to southern France, in 1990 the singers took part in the music festival in St. Vidal (France) as well as in the performance of the opera “Orfeo negro” and concerts in Dresden . In the spring of 2000 Vivat academia was involved in the world premiere of the musical "The Nightingale and the Rose" based on a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde . In 2004/05 the choir initiated an exchange with the Czech women's choir Cantica Bohemica, which included a concert tour to the Czech Republic . The student choir is now based at the University of Telecommunications in Leipzig .
Concerts / repertoire
The choral repertoire includes works from many eras, from the baroque to the 20th century. In addition to a CD production in the Mendelssohn Hall of the Gewandhaus, highlights of the past few years have included participation in the Leipzig University Music Days, concerts and gala events in the Alte Handelsbörse , in the Gewandhaus, in the Nikolaikirche , the Peterskirche and the Thomaskirche . The choir took part in performances of the Christmas oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Camille Saint-Saëns as well as the Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel . The student choir works closely with other Leipzig choirs, well-known soloists and orchestras such as the Leipzig Chamber Philharmonic .
Choirmaster
- 1954–1976: Jürgen Morgenstern
- 1976–1997: Dieter Graubner
- 1997–2000: Claudia Maria Laule, Gunter Berger
- 2000–2005: Ulrich Barthel
- since 2005: Marcus Friedrich