StudioChor Berlin
| StudioChor Berlin | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Berlin / Germany |
| Founding: | 1969 / 1996 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Eddy Rhein and Klaus Scheithe |
| Head : | Alexander Lebek |
| Voices : | 50 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.studio-chor-berlin.de |
The StudioChor Berlin (formerly: Studio-Chor Berlin) is a mixed amateur choir .
history
It was founded on April 22, 1969. The conductor and composer Eddy Rhein and the vice-president of the Berliner Sängerbund (now the Berlin Choir Association ), Klaus Scheithe, came together to found a choir that followed a concept that was at least seldom encountered in the German choir at the time and the model of the American college choirs followed.
The repertoire encompassed the field of music from film and TV, through multilingual folklore, musicals and operettas, to opera and the sacred area.
After the start-up became public following calls in the media, around 130 amateur singers came together for the first rehearsal. After intensive rehearsal work, the choir was able to make its debut in Berlin concert life in the Berlin Philharmonic on November 25, 1969 with “Famous Opera Choirs”. Works from operas by Wagner, Weber, Kreutzer Bizet, Glinka, Borodin, Mascagni and Verdi were performed. The next concert “Manhattan Melody” followed on December 30, 1969. More than 60 concerts then took place in the implementation of this concept.
On April 11, 1970, the world premiere of "Canticum sacrum 70" by Eddy Rhein and on June 9, 1976, the world premiere of "Message" by Wolfgang Steffen, according to Ingeborg Drewitz, as part of the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Sängerbund. Works by the composers Bach, Mozart, Faure, Prokofieff, Brahms, Britten, Kodály, Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter and Bernstein were also performed. These included "Orpheus and Eurydice" (Gluck) and "King David" (Honegger), as well as - in concert - "Carmina burana" and "Catulli carmina" (Orff).
Then the direction of the choir changed. Stefan Bevier , who has been the choir director of the London Philharmonia Chorus, the counterpart of the London Philharmonia Orchestra, since 2010, took over as conductor of the SCB and led the choir mainly in the field of sacred choral music. Less well-known works from this genre were performed, including choral works by Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Donizetti, Weber, Vivaldi, Cherubini, Bruckner, Offenbach and Strauss. In the first own concert under new management that was on May 23, 1988 Messa di Gloria by Giacomo Puccini brought to the stage.
Concert tours have taken the choir within Germany to Hanover , Peine , Minden and Trossingen ; abroad to France / Gagny / Paris, the Netherlands / Appeldorn, Hungary / Budapest, Poland / Waldenburg / Neuerode / Schweidnitz, USA (with Friendship Force / Bridge of Friendship) to Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
In 1996 Joachim Geiger took over the direction of the choir. The renewed change in leadership went hand in hand with a refresher in all four voices, which was practically the same as a start-up. The choir is a member of the Berlin Choir Association and one of the Berlin choirs financially supported by the Berlin Senate. The choir celebrated its 40th anniversary on November 11th, 2009 in the Berlin Philharmonie with a concert that featured Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's "Missa Salisburgensis" and the world premiere of Dieter Schnebel's 2009 for the StudioChor Berlin. Bach Choral I "spanned a period of three centuries - both pieces that require the choir to be set up in several groups in space and thus create a strong spatial sound effect.
Alexander Lebek has been leading the StudioChor Berlin since February 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.philharmoniachorus.co.uk/about-our-history
- ^ Choirs in the Berlin Choir Association
- ↑ http://www.berlin.de/imperia/md/sen-kultur/kulturfoerderung/musik/chorfoerderung_20092010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.studio-chor-berlin.de/konzerte/091111_zum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Program.htm
