ドルトムント・コールアカデミー・少年合唱団
The boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy
The boys' choir is a performance choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy .
The boys' choir was founded in 2002. About 40 boys between the ages of nine and fourteen sing in the concert choir.
The Dortmund Choral Academy is now the largest singing school in Europe. Divided into a children's and youth area as well as a concert area, 1000 singers are now singing in 30 choirs in the Choral Academy. It was founded in Dortmund in 2002. The aim of this singing school is to promote choral and solo singing at a high level and in the border area to professionalism with fun and joy.
Education
The aim of training in the boys' choir is to train talented young singers who will later sing as soloists or in choirs at larger theaters or concert halls. Education starts around the age of six. Before that, the boys go through preliminary choirs, in which they learn the first difficult singing techniques in a playful and child-friendly way. In addition to the choir rehearsals, the boys have weekly solo lessons in which their singing voices are professionally trained. Not the drill to a desired choir sound, but the sum of the special voices result in the unique sound of the choir. This approach to training goes back to Jost Salm, who has directed the boys' choir since 2006. The boys do not live in a boarding school, but stay in their home environment and also attend the local schools. Under the direction of Jost Salm, the boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy has established itself as one of the best boys' choirs in Germany.
Repertoire
The boys appear in numerous theater productions and concerts as a choir and as soloists. The roles of the three boys from Mozart's Magic Flute are part of the regular repertoire of the boys' choir (including De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera , State Theater Wiesbaden , Cologne Opera ). The soloists of the boys' choir sang u. a. also the leading role of Miles in The Turn of the Screw by Britten ( Theater Kiel 2007), Yniold in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande ( Centennial Hall Bochum 2008) and were in the Mahler cycle theBochumer Symphoniker ( Philharmonie Essen 2008), where they provided the two boy soloists in the Klagendes Lied (Laurenz Derksen and Carlo Wilfart).
The choir has been in productions such as Mahler's Symphony No. 3 (opening of the Dortmund Konzerthaus ), Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bucher (Munster), Britten's War Requiem ( Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra ), Wagner's Parsifal (opening of the Bochum Centennial Hall with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ) and Berlioz ' La damnation de Faust (Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo conducted by Marek Janowski). In 2007 the choir sang in the German premiere of Paul McCartney 's Ecce Cor Meum .
In addition to an extensive secular and sacred concert program, the boys' repertoire also includes opera choirs (e.g. Carmen , Tosca ) and a series of national anthems that the choir sang on the occasion of the 2006 Hockey World Cup in Germany.
The highlight of the short existence of the choir since 2008 is the annual performance of the Christmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach in historical performance practice by the boys. As a special feature, the soprano and altar arias are also sung by soloists from the boys' choir.
In 2010, the boys' choir toured the United States of America for the first time and sang in the world premiere and CD production of Ralf Gawlick 's cantata Kinderkreuzzug , based on a ballad by Bertolt Brecht .
In 2011, soloists of the boys' choir sang at the much-acclaimed world premiere of the opera Sunday from Light by Karlheinz Stockhausen ; 2013 the Knappen in Richard Wagner 's Parsifal at the Teatro Real Madrid and the Waldvogel in Wagner's Siegfried at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. In the summer of 2014, the choir's boy soloists made their debut at the opera festival in Aix en Provence in the role of the three boys in The Magic Flute . In October 2015, a soloist from the boys' choir sang in the premiere of the sequel to the famous musical Phantom of the Opera byAndrew Lloyd Webber in Hamburg .
In 2017, a boy soloist from the boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy opened the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie under the direction of Kent Nagano . In November 2017 , the Boys' Choir of the Dortmund Choral Academy, together with the WDR Radio Choir and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Thomas Hengelbrock , returned to the Hanseatic city with the boys' choir role in Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bucher .
The annual program 'Christmas with the Federal President', broadcast by ZDF on Christmas Eve, was co-designed in 2017 by the boys' choir of the Dortmund Choir Academy in the Marienbasilika Kevelaer .
After many years of involvement in the production of "The Magic Flute", the Hamburg State Opera ended its collaboration with the boys' choir in 2019.
Awards
In 2016 the boys' choir was awarded the renowned "Bajazzo" culture prize.