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Maulbronner Kammerchor
The Maulbronn Chamber Choir (German: "Maulbronner Kammerchor") was founded in 1983 and is directed by Jürgen Budday. It took first place at the Baden-Württemberg Choir Competition in 1989 and 1997, second place at the 3rd German Choir Competition in Stuttgart in 1990, first prize at the 5th German Choir Competition in Regensburg in 1998 and most recently achievement level I "internationally excellent" together with a special prize for the best interpretation of a sacred choral work at the 11th International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf as well as two first prizes at the 3rd International Choir Competition Malta 2009. Discography Oratorios by G. F. Handel Historically informed performances in English * ''Jephtha'' - Oratorio in three acts. An historically informed performance in English with Emma Kirkby (Soprano), Melinda Paulsen (Mezzo-soprano), Charles Humphries (Countertenor), Julian Podger (Tenor), Stephen Varcoe (Bass), Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Barockorche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maulbronn
Maulbronn () is a city in the district of Enz in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. History Founded in 1838, it emerged from a settlement, built around a monastery, which belonged to the Neckar Community in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1886, Maulbronn officially became a German town and was an administrative centre until 1938. The return of many displaced persons following the Second World War significantly raised the local population. Of particular note is the town's monastery, Maulbronn Abbey, which features prominently in Hermann Hesse's novel, ''Beneath the Wheel''. The former Cistercian monastery has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993. Legend has it that the settlement was founded by monks who followed a mule to a valley with a source of clean water. The valley was also blessed with large deposits of soft sandstone for building. The monks built the original abbey and erected a fountain to honour the mule. The town name means mule fountain. According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Paulsen
Melinda Paulsen (born 1964) is an American mezzo-soprano and contralto who has appeared mostly in Germany, with a focus on concert singing. She has been an academic voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Early life and education Paulsen grew up in Indiana. She studied first at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, then from 1988 in Germany at the Musikhochschule München with Daphne Evangelatos, graduating in 1991. Career Paulsen was engaged by the opera studio of the Bavarian State Theatre, where she received instructions by Astrid Varnay and participated in opera productions of the State Theatre. In 1992, she achieved 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition. She has appeared at international Festivals such as Rheingau Musik Festival, Halle Handel Festival, and Bregenz Festival. She has collaborated with conductors such as Roberto Abbado, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Marek Janowski and Helmuth Rilling, and has appeared in concert halls such as the Wiener Musik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Choirs
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Early Music Choirs
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Markus Schäfer
Markus Schäfer (born 13 June 1961) is a German lyric tenor, a soloist in opera, oratorio, and ''Lied''. He has performed with major opera houses and with the ensemble La Petite Bande. He has been a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover. Career Born in Andernach, Schäfer grew up in Bad Ems where his father was church musician. Schäfer studied singing with Armand McLane. He studied sacred music in Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe. He made his operatic debut with the Zurich ''Opernstudio'' and later joined the ensemble of the Zurich Opera, then the ''Hamburgische Staatsoper'' and until 1993 the ''Deutsche Oper am Rhein''. As a freelance singer, he performed Lied and concerts, including at major festivals. He has been a professor of voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover since 2008. Schäfer has performed with the ensemble La Petite Bande, conducted by Sigiswald Kuijken, in concerts and recordings of Bach cantatas and in works by Mozart, as Ferrando in ''Così fan tutte' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlis Petersen
Marlis Petersen (born 3 February 1968)Heinrich (2018) is a German operatic coloratura soprano. Career Born in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Marlis Petersen won six important piano competitions before eventually going to the Stuttgart Conservatory where she studied music education, flute and dance as well as voice. She made her operatic debut at the Staatstheater Nürnberg as Ännchen in ''Der Freischütz'' which led to a contract with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she primarily sang in operas by Mozart and Strauss. On 6 September 2007, Petersen sang the role of Aphrodite in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's ''Phaedra'' at the Berlin State Opera. Another world premiere came in May 2008, when she sang the role of Marta in Manfred Trojahn's ''La Grande Magia'' at the Dresden Semperoper. Petersen has also appeared on the stages of Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, London, Paris, Geneva, and Monte Carlo and is also known for her portrayal of the demanding title role in Alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Van Goethem
Patrick Van Goethem (born 1969) is a Belgian countertenor, known for performing early music. Early life Patrick Van Goethem was born in Aalst, East Flanders, and began his education in the boys choir Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino under direction of Michaël Ghijs. He studied with Marie-Thérèse Maesen and Zeger Vandersteene, and later with Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl. Career Van Goethem has appeared mostly in festivals of early music in Germany, France and the Netherlands. Van Goethem sang Bach's ''Magnificat'' with Gustav Leonhardt and the Netherlands Bach Society at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. With Reinhard Goebel and the Musica Antiqua Köln he sang in a Bach cantata project at the Festival Musica Antiqua Bruges. He appeared in Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig as part of the Bach Year 2000. In 2004, he recorded Bach's ''Ascension Oratorio'' and ''Easter Oratorio'' with the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki, with concerts i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chance
Michael Chance CBE (born in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom 7 March 1955) is an English countertenor and the founder and Artistic Director of The Grange Festival. Chance was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, into a musical family. After growing up as a chorister at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, attending the St George's School, he went on to Eton and later King's College, Cambridge. His first operatic appearance was in the Buxton Festival in Ronald Eyre's staging of Cavalli's ''Giasone'' which was followed by appearances in Lyon, Cologne, and three seasons with Kent Opera. Subsequently, he has performed in the Sydney Opera House, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Scala Milan, Florence, New York, Lisbon, Oviedo, Leipzig, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and with Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and English National Opera. His roles include the title roles of Orfeo (Gluck), Giasone, Giustino, Rinaldo and Ascanio in Alba, Solomon, Ottone / L’incoronazione di Poppea, Athamas / Seme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Varcoe
Christopher Stephen Varcoe (born 19 May 1949 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall) is an English classical bass-baritone singer, appearing internationally in opera and concert, known for Baroque and contemporary music and a notable singer of Lieder. Professional career Stephen Varcoe was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and King's College, Cambridge, where he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, choir. He later completed a PhD at the University of York. In 1977 he won a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation. On the opera stage he appeared in Haydn's ''L'infedeltà delusa'' in Antwerp, in Debussy's ''La chute de la maison Usher (opera), Fall of the House of Usher'' in Lisbon and London, in John Tavener's opera ''Mary Of Egypt'' for the Aldeburgh Festival, and he performed the part of Plutone in Peri's Euridice (Peri), Euridice at the Drottningholm Festival in Sweden. He also performed the parts of Death in Gustav Holst's chamber opera ''Savitri (opera), Savitri'', D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Podger
Julian Podger (born 1966) is an English tenor who has appeared mostly in concert in historically informed performance. He took part in the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. He also sings in vocal ensembles, and directs his own ensemble, Trinity Baroque. Life and career Born in England, Podger grew up in Kassel, Hesse, Germany. His sister, Rachel Podger, is an acclaimed violinist. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has sung with notable vocal ensembles such as Gothic Voices, a group for medieval music, and The Harp Consort. He founded his own ensemble Trinity Baroque while still studying in Cambridge. On 10 August 1997, he appeared as a soloist at The Proms with the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, performing vocal works by Schubert and Beethoven. Podger took part, as a soloist and member of the Monteverdi Choir, in the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage by Gardiner. He sang the role of the Evangelist in Bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Humphries
Charles Humphries is an English countertenor, noted for performances of Baroque and Renaissance music. He is the director of Baroque music at the SIMF. He has performed at the Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ... and across Europe. References External linksOfficial site English male singers Countertenors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{England-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
