About the Ensembles
- Byzantion – Collegium musicae slavicae Praha
- Calvi Cantores, Knurów (Pl)
- Cantate, Rokycany
- The Berušky Children Choir, Klatovy
- The Nokturňáček Children Choir, Sezimovo Ústí
- Fojta´s Chamber Choir, Roudnice nad Labem
- Grey Donkeys, Plzeň
- The Choir of the Church of Virgin Mary Assumption, Bodenmais (D)
- The Church Choir & Orchestra from Fulpmes-Telfes, Tirol (A)
- The Choir of the St. Wolfgang Choir, Schalders, Südtirol (I)
- The Choir of the St. Nicholas Church, Zwiesel (D)
- Jitříčko, Hradec Králové
- Collegium for Sacred Music, Klatovy
- The Youth Chamber Choir Ko.Mar, Plzeň
- Laetitia, Praha
- Musica suavis
- NovAntica, Bayern (D)
- Fialky, Klatovy
- ProVocal, Budapest (Hu)
- Slavica Musa, Knurów (Pl)
- The Česká píseň Mixed Choir, Plzeň
- The Šumavan Mixed Choir, Klatovy
- The CORO AVENTINO Vocal Ensemble, Plzeň
- Vox Imperfecta, Plzeň
- The Železná Ruda Mixed Choir, Železná Ruda
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Praha
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Knurów (Pl)
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Rokycany
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Klatovy
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Sezimovo Ústí
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Roudnice nad Labem
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Plzeň
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BackThe Choir of the Church of Virgin Mary Assumption
Bodenmais (D)
The choir focuses on mastering polyphonic masses and other musical pieces that can accompany services in the local catholic church. Vít Aschenbrenner became the choirmaster in 2004. Since that time masses by W.A.Mozart have formed a notable part of the choir-repertoir (i.e. so-called "Coronation Mass" (Mass No. 15 in C major, KV 317 ), "Sparrow Mass" (Missa Brevis in C, KV 220), "Missa brevis" in D major) accompanied by an orchestra. The choir has regularly participated in the Festival of Sacred Music – „Šumava-Bavarian Forest“ since 2006. - In 2008, the choir has introduced the "St. Barbara Mass" written by a contemporary German harmonist Hermann Angstenberger as a world premiere.
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Tyrolsko (A)
This choir started practising in 2004 under the artistic direction of Josef Wetzinger. Their main goal of this choir is to provide musical accompaniment of church feasts and realize one or two more projects a year (i.e. concerts, CD recording, cooperation with other choirs). The choir concentrates on sacred baroque music and pieces written by Tyrolean composers. Repertoir variety is guaranteed by cooperation with an orchestra, which provides also a very useful experience for young musicians.
New members of this choir are usually young singers from local children choirs which also actively participates in the cultural-religious life of the village.
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Südtirol (I)
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Zwiesel (D)
The church choir of St.Nicholas in Zwiesel is the oldest town institution in the Bavarian-Forest region. Performing church music in Zwiesel parish was first mentioned in the 17th century. Main aim of this choir is to accompany the church services with singing to make them more festive. Nowadays, the choir consists of 20 members and is conducted by Zwiesel choirmaster Peter Kreutzer.
The choir repertoir includes mainly sacred music of different styles, from Gregorian chant to contemporary music. The most important choir work is undoubtely performing Mass in G, op.76 by Carl Maria von Weber that was performed at the 100th anniversary of Zwiesel parish church consecration in 1998. Then performing Haydn´s Mass No.6 (Missa Sancti Nicolai) in 2004 during the 750 years of Zwiesel celebration and also recording J. Reinberger´s Missa Sancti Crucis for Bavarian broadcast in 2004.
In 2007 the choir participated in the exhibition „Bavaria - Czech:1500 years of neighbourhood“ and also in the concurrent project „Musica Sacra Bohemica“ (Zwiesel 2007) and practiced some pieces composed by Czech composers (Brixi, Horák). Since 2007 the choir has regularly taken share in the Festival of Sacred Music „Šumava – Bavarian Forest“" and cooperates with Collegium for Sacred Music and its artistic director Vít Aschenbrenner closely as well.
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Hradec Králové
Jitříčko is a part of children choir Jitro from Hradec Králové. It is also the last step to the main concert choir Jitro. Jitříčko members are children between 11 and 14 years who already practise concurrently with the main choir. Their repertoir spans from monophonic and polyphonic Gothic and Rennaisance songs to contemporary music. The choir realizes few performances both in Hradec Králové and in f.e. Prague, Tachov, Liberec and Olomouc every year. The foreign performances in Germany, Austria, France and Hungary were also very favourable. The greatest succes of Jitříčko was definitely in 2003 when the choir won the 1st prize at an international choir competition „Svátky písní“ in Olomouc. PhD.Jiří Skopal was a choirmaster for many years. Nowadays, the choir is conducted by Lucie Fárová, piano accompaniment is provided by doc.Michal Chrobák.
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Klatovy
Collegium for sacred music was founded in 1996 by musicologist Vít Aschenbrenner. Now the chamber mixed choir consists of about 20 singers. The choir focuses mainly on interpretation of baroque and classical music but also performs contemporary music. The choir tries to introduce works of regional composers, whose sheet music was found in archives. The ensemble has already appeared at many liturgical and concert occassions all over the Westbohemian region but also in Germany and Netherlands. Netherlands has been already toured three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2006.
The most important performance was undoubtely the world premiere of a sacred cantata „Credo of the death“ (2005) composed by a local composer Leopold Eugen Měchura and also a concert of music from the time of our Lady´s miracle (8th July 1685) called "Virgin Mary Blood Sweating“. Within the Bavarian exhibition in Zwiesel 2007, Collegium of sacred music also took part in a concurrent project called „Musica sacra Bohemica“ (Biber, Brixi, Dvořák).
Since 2007 the choir has taken part in a project called „"Jesuit order in Klatovy at the Baroque time“ organized by society "Klatovy catacombs". They performance music of the age of jesuit college in Klatovy (approx. 1650-1773). Till 2007 the choir was a co-organizer of the European Festival of Sacred Music „Šumava-Bavarian Forest“, the only festival of this type in Western Bohemia. The choir became the head festival organizer in 2008.
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Plzeň
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BackLaetitia
Praha
The beginning of the Laetitia choir goes back to the foundation of the mixed chamber choir in 1976. The Czech singer and singing educationalist Dagmar Součková and the choir conductor Jindra Jindáčková originally established the choir. In the mid-eighties, Stanislav Mistr became the choir conductor of Laetitia and was finally replaced by Roman Michálek in 1992. Right from the beginning, the choir singers have consisted of students and graduates of Prague universities from various fields.
This cooperation results in the choir's repertoire and its sound qualities. The choir performs not only sacred works, but also European secular music of all times and styles, ranging from the Gregorian chant,vocal polyphony and classical choral works to arangement of traditional songs and contemporary compositions. Systematic development of singing culture of particular voice groups is already considered to be a traditional characteristic feature of the choir's work. Thanks to this, the choir has a tender and cultured sound and is able to perform not only as the unit (mixed choir), but also as an individual men's choir (for instance, Bohuslav Martinů: Hora tří světel) or a women's choir (G. B. Pergolesi: Stabat mater); if needed, the choir can create various soloists ensembles and perform soloists parts of its repertoire mostly with their own forces.
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Klatovy
Members of this chamber ensemble are Jan Lokajíček (violin), Ludmila Nová and Eva Slabá -Bartošová (voice-soprano, alto) and Vít Aschenbrenner (organ). To perform the chamber music of the 17th and 18th century is the core interest of the ensemble. They focuse mainly on the interpretation of music written by baroque and classicist harmonists composing in the Middle and Southern Europe, but they also present repertoir based on critical editing of regional music resources.
This ensemble also invites other singers or instrumentalists not only to be able to interpret certain pieces of music in an authentic way but also offer audience different types of vocal or vocal-instrumental works (songs, cantatas etc.)
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Bayern (D)
Members of this ensemble are mainly graduates of Hochschule fur Music in Munich who have had years of experience with choir work. The choir was founded by his current leader Stefan Urlbauer. Because it is almost impossible to rehearse regularly every week, the choir organizes an intensive rehearsal every month and members of the choir are willing to come from all different places in Bavaria. The choir prepares repertoir for two different complete projects and presents them in different places every year. Recently it has been for example Symphony No.2 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Lobgesang“ or Mass No 2 in E minor by Anton Bruckner.
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Klatovy
