Dresdner Kammerchor
The Dresden Chamber Choir is established in 1985 in Dresden by Hans -Christoph Rademann mixed chorus.
History and Repertoire
The Dresden Chamber Choir was founded in 1985 by students at Hans -Christoph Rademann at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Rademann has since been director of the choir. The Dresden Chamber Choir is a mixed ensemble, whose members are equally trained singers, music students and skilled amateur singers. The choir is also today a partnership with the Musikhochschule Dresden, at which Rademann was appointed in 2000 as professor of choral conducting. The Dresden Chamber Choir allows vocal and choral student conductors already gather practical experience at the professional level in the study.
To profile the choir belongs inter alia, the maintenance of court music in Dresden, this includes several world premieres and revivals of sacred works by Johann David Heinichen, Johann Adolf Hasse and Jan Dismas Zelenka. The choir is also engaged in the Romantic repertoire and contemporary music and has been awarded at international competitions (market Oberndorf, Maasmechelen, Tolosa ) for multiple interpretations of this music. In Messiaen 2008, the Dresden Chamber Choir led to a total of five times the Cinq Rechants of Olivier Messiaen, one of the key works of contemporary vocal music after the end of World War 2. 1994-2009 took the choir regularly at the " Festival of Early Music " in the Erzgebirge part. Also in the " Musikfest Erzgebirge ", which is held in the region since 2010, the choir occurs. For 20 -year-old choir anniversary 2005 International Composition Competition was announced, four works were premiered on 31 October 2005 at the Semper Opera, the first prize went to live in the U.S. German composer Reiko Füting.
Concert tours have taken the choir to date, inter alia, in most European countries, the United States, China, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, South Africa and South America. The Dresden Chamber Choir was represented at various international festivals, including Bach Week in Ansbach, Handel Festival Halle, Rheingau Music Festival, Göttingen Handel Festival and the Salzburg Festival. The choir works, inter alia, with the following conductors and orchestras: Paul McCreesh, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Riccardo Chailly, Ádám Fischer, René Jacobs, Sir Roger Norrington, Herbert Blomstedt, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra.
In addition to Hans -Christoph Rademann are Jörg Genslein (since 2007) and Olaf Katzer ( since 2011 ) Conductor of the Dresden Chamber Choir.
Numerous CDs ( at carus, naxos and surround sound ) document the repertoire. 2005, a recording of the Dresden Chamber Choir with the Prize of the German Record Critics' Award ( Hasse / Requiem, carus ). In addition to the great works of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, works of Dresden court orchestra and the " Vespers " by Claudio Monteverdi three a cappella CDs have been released, which is also represented with works by Schoenberg, Martin and Pärt contemporary music.
Since 2011, the Dresden Chamber Choir realized under the overall musical direction of Hans -Christoph Rademann and in cooperation with the Carus -Verlag Stuttgart and MDR Figaro, the first complete recording of Heinrich Schütz. The recording should be complete in 2017.
The Dresden Chamber Choir is a member of Klangnetz Dresden.