Zamirchor
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| Seat: | Bayreuth / Germany |
| Founding: | 2006 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Barbara Baier and Itzhak Tavior |
| Head : | Barbara Baier |
| Voices : | 30 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://zamirchor.de/ |
The Zamirchor e. V. (Hebrew: הזמיר Zamir "nightingale") is a mixed choir from Bayreuth in Upper Franconia , whose aim is to contribute culturally integrative to international understanding on a regional and international level .
Foundation and background
The opera singer and vocal teacher Barbara Baier from Bayreuth met the Israeli-Jewish pianist and conductor Itzhak Tavior by chance in Switzerland. Joint concerts and recitals followed - in Switzerland, he didn't want to go to “the land of nazis”.
The artistic collaboration motivated Tavior to set texts from the Old Testament to music. His first two works were created: the cantata “Shma Israel”, Hear Israel, the Eternal is our God, the Eternal is unique (this is the text of the Jewish prayer that believers pray several times a day) and the symphonic poem “The Vision of the Dry Bones ”, The raising of the people according to the book of the prophet Ezekiel . The two artists began to present the works, intended for soloists, choir and orchestra, to the audience in miniature versions with vocals and piano.
Back in Bayreuth, Barbara Baier organized a project choir made up of her pupils and students - the origin of the Zamirchor.
The works were completely rehearsed in Hebrew, and Itzhak Tavior was invited to come to Germany to perform his works on the piano together with the project choir. The only performance date that was possible for everyone happened to happen on Holocaust Remembrance Day, back in May 2005. Because of the too sensitive date, Tavior interviewed some rabbis in his home country who encouraged him to go.
For the first time a Holocaust Remembrance Day was celebrated in Bayreuth, together with Jews and Christians, Israelis and Germans.
In the same year, a “come together” took place at the University of Bayreuth , a conference whose initiators included Barbars Baier, Pastor Peter Hirschberg as a speaker and the Israeli, Arab-Jewish journalist Daniel Dagan , who gave a lecture on the subject of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict held. On this occasion, the project choir sang other Hebrew compositions by Itzhak Tavior.
In April 2006 the Zamirchor e. V. officially founded. Since then, the choir has seen its task under the aspect of international understanding in intensifying relations between Germans and Israelis as well as Jews and Christians. In addition to regional activities, he organizes joint musical projects with Israeli choirs, also on an international level.
Act
The repertoire ranges from the baroque to the modern and is regularly enriched by (premier) performances of works by Itzhak Tavior. In 2009 the choir sang at the Bayreuth premiere of the semi-opera Wilhelmine - Love is just a fantasy by the composer Hans Martin Gräbner on the anniversary year of Wilhelmine von Bayreuth .
So it started
The concerts on the occasion of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in 2008 in the Bayreuth City Hall with the Hof Symphony Orchestra and in the Nuremberg State Theater with the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra led in 2010 to the invitation of the choir to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in front of the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City . It was a historic concert: for the first time Germany and Israel took part singing together at this location. Conduct conducted; at another concert in New York in the Park East Synagogue he was at the piano. Due to the audio video in Bayreuth in 2008 with his composition The Vision of the Dry Bones (see above), Tavior received the Zionist Prize from the Ministry of Culture of the State of Israel.
Further collaboration with Israeli choirs and international orchestras
- January 26, 2011 Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir, Zamirchor, German Radio Chamber Orchestra for the Franco-German Friendship Day, St. Bernadette Church in Annecy , Bayreuth's twin town. Conductor: Tavior On January 27, 2011, the commemoration of the 5th International Holocaust Remembrance Day in front of the UN in Geneva was accompanied by music with the same cast .
- March 20-28, 2012 first concert tour to Israel. A capella concert in Christchurch Jerusalem : Israel Oratorio Chamberchoir and Zamirchor, welcome by the Mayor of Jerusalem (23.03.201). Requiem of Mozart in the theater Jerusalem with Israel Oratorio Chamber Choir, the Zamirchor and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Head of Ronen Borshevsky (March 24, 2012); same program 25.03.2012 in Herzlyya .
- Concert January 2014 Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir, Zamirchor and Hofer Symphoniker on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Freiheitshalle Hof .
- 23/01/2014 framing the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial of Bavarian Parliament , same choir, Nuremberg Symphony on the former Reichsparteitagsgelaende with live transmission in the BR.
- May 3rd – May 10th, 2015 2nd concert tour to Israel on the occasion of the 50-year friendship treaty between Israel and Germany by Ben Gurion and Konrad Adenauer : Concerts Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Misgavchor and Zamirchor in Rappaport / Haifa on May 7th, 2015; at the Tel Aviv Opera House on May 10th; A capella concert in Misgav on May 9th, 2015
- July 2015 Misgav Hagalil Choir, Zamirchor, Hofer Symphoniker on the occasion of the 50-year friendship agreement between Germany and Israel in Hof and Bayreuth
- 26.01.2017 Appearance at the United Nations Geneva , German radio orchestra, Misgavchor, Zamirchor, international Holocaust Remembrance Day under the patronage of Foreign Minister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
- 01/27/2017 Appearance in Lac Lugano, same cast, Holocaust Remembrance Day with cooperation of the Canton of Ticino and the Israeli-Swiss Society
- 08/27/2017, Three Nations Project in Kępno . Filharmonia Kaliska, Ashira Choir, Polish Choir
- May 26th – June 2nd, 2018 Concert tour (invitation of the Lemberg Philharmonic ) to Lemberg (Lviv) to the international festival "Virtuosi" with the Lemberg Philharmonic and the Ashira Israel Choir under the patronage of the German Ambassador Reichel on the occasion of 70 years of the State of Israel
- 07.11. – 11.11.2018 Concert tour to Detmold , concert Ashira Israel Choir, Zamirchor and Detmold Chamber Orchestra on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- April 8, 2019– April 15, 2019 3rd concert tour to Israel, performance with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Ashira Israel Choir and Zamir Choir in Haifa; A capella concert by the Zamirchor in front of Holocaust survivors in the Amchaclub Haifa
- 20.06. – 22.06.2019 visit and guest recording of the Jewish-Arab orchestra from Tel Aviv with joint performances in Franconia
- June 30th – July 8th, 2019 Concert tour of the Three Nations Project in Chisinau , Moldova National Orchestra and Ashira Israel Choir in the Philharmonie
Reviews
- http://www.nz-online.de/artikel.asp?art=1163221&kat=49
- http://www.nn-online.de/artikel.asp?art=1163460&kat=48&man=3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier, Sat / Sun 7./8. May 2005: The Secret of Salvation, music and texts for the Holocaust Remembrance Day .
- ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier , December 2, 2005: Signs of Friendship .
- ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier, December 2, 2005: Signs of Friendship .
- ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier, April 6, 2006: Hebrew songs from Franconian throats .
- ↑ http://zamirchor.de/index1293.html?page_id=4113
- ↑ http://zamirchor.de/indexf4a6.html?page_id=4365
- ↑ http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/kulmbach/kl/art3969,1185313
- ↑ Risen from the ruins of guilt. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed September 7, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.frankenpost.de/regional/oberfranken/laenderspiegel/Die-Nachtigallen-aus-Bayreuth;art2388,1994394
- ↑ http://zamirchor.de/indexf4a6.html?page_id=4365
- ↑ Television for Upper Franconia on January 23, 2011: Bayreuth Zamirchor rehearsing for a performance in Geneva ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Accessed February 1, 2011)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Video of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
