Various Vocal Ensembles and The King's Singers
Beneath my activities as a solo singer (see: My own Music and CDs) I always sang in different vocal groups - some for mixed voices, some only for women's voices.
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In the years 1982 to 1985 in my (former) school existed a Vocal Ensemble for mixed voices - here during a recording for a well-known German radio station in Frankfurt in 1983.
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For nine years - from 1990 until 1999 - I belonged to the group Cantando Cantabile - here during an International Choir Competition in Riva del Garda / Italy in 1996, where we have been successful in the Madrigal-Class.
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A special highlight Cantando Cantabile had in 1994: We were chosen to join a masterclass for vocal ensembles with The King's Singers in a renowned German Music Festival in Lübeck / Schleswig-Holstein. Here's a photo: Cantando Cantabile together with the famous King's Singers.
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Especially to participate again in a masterclass with the King's Singers in 1999 a quartet-selection of the bigger group was founded as a sub-section and was called Cantando EXTRAbile.
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We have been so lucky to be chosen for this masterclass and be teached by the King's Singers in Lübeck in July 1999 - here in a rehearsal with Phil.
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Short time after that a friend
and I were working to construct a new quartet - this one again for mixed
voices, but with me as female tenor. The project started with great promises,
but then we had to put our project into cold storage for a longer time.
In recent years the music teacher colleagues of my school sang together a cappella during various school events - for example at our Christmas concert in 2013. I sing the tenor part most of the time. Unfortunately we don't have time to rehearse on a regular basis. But I enjoy singing with my colleagues a lot, because all of us are educated musicians and we have a high quality even without many rehearsals.
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The King's Singers
are maybe the best vocal ensemble all over the world. The six Englishmen with two countertenors, one tenor, two baritones, and one bass have the wide sound of a mixed choir. They prefer a great variety of music: Their repertory contains music of the Renaissance, Romantic, 20th century, and also arrangements of popular music - everything performed with an unbelievable perfection. Since the foundation of the group in 1968 the members changed of course - the quality only changed from incredible good to even better.
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Listen to two little examples:
1. Good Vibrations (0:55)
2. Kokomo (1:14)
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The King's Singers 1994 in Coesfeld / Germany
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Small wonder that I visited all concerts which haven't been too far away from me since I met the King's Singers for the first time - and this won't change in the future:
3. December 1994: COESFELD (1) * 6. June 1995: MAINZ (2) * 18. November 1995: NIDDA (3) * 27. June 1996: WEILBURG (4) * 29. June 1996: LICH (5) * 2. December 1996: BAD KREUZNACH (6) * 24. June 1997: KLOSTER EBERBACH / RHEINGAU (7) * 25. June 1997: WEILBURG (8) * 11. October 1997: RÖDERMARK (9) * 7. March 1998: BAD SODEN-SALMÜNSTER (10) * 13. March 1998: FRANKFURT (11) * 27. June 1998: LICH (12) * 30. June 1998: KLOSTER EBERBACH / RHEINGAU (13) * 24. October 1998: WÜRZBURG (14) * 8. March 1999: MARBURG (15) * 28. June 1999: KLOSTER EBERBACH / RHEINGAU (16) * 25. July 1999: RENDSBURG (17) * 13. November 1999: STUTTGART (18) * 17. November 1999: BONN (19) * 18. March 2000: KÖLN (20) * 3. May 2000: WIESBADEN (21) * 5. May 2000: WÜRZBURG (22) * 22. September 2000: SPEYER (23) * 25. September 2000: DIETZENBACH (24) * 29. September 2000: LIMBURG (25) * 7. October 2000: BONN (26) * 27. November 2000: LENNESTADT (27) * 23. March 2001: STEINAU (28) * 27. March 2001: STUTTGART (29) * 20. July 2001: KLOSTER EBERBACH (30) * 24. July 2001: LUDWIGSBURG (31) * 27. September 2001: BAD HOMBURG (32) * 28. September 2001: WETZLAR (33) * 16. December 2001: DÜSSELDORF (34) * 20. December 2001: KÖLN (35) * 20. April 2002: MÜNCHEN (36) * 26. April 2002: BACKNANG (37) * 8. June 2002: LUDWIGSBURG (38) * 15. July 2002: ALZENAU (39) * 16. July 2002: WIESBADEN (40) * 27. July 2002: SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND (41) * 25. September 2002: NEUNKIRCHEN/SAAR (42) * 5. December 2002: STUTTGART (43) * 11. December 2002: WÜRZBURG (44) * 13. December 2002: EBERBACH (45) * 2. April 2003: KOBLENZ (46) * 4. April 2003: KREFELD (47) * 5. April 2003: LEVERKUSEN (48) * 20. July 2003: HAMM (49) * 20. September 2003: MAULBRONN (50) * 21. September 2003: FREIENSTEINAU (51) * 27. September 2003: NEUNKIRCHEN/SAAR (52) * 13. November 2003: WUPPERTAL (53) * 23. November 2003: BAD MÜNSTEREIFEL (54) * 29. Januar 2004: AACHEN (55) * 25. March 2004: DARMSTADT (56) * 27. March 2004: KARLSRUHE (57) * 28. March 2004: BRACKENHEIM (58) * 28. May 2004: HILCHENBACH (59) * 30. June 2004: NIEDERGRÜNDAU (60) * 2. July 2004: WEILBURG (61) * 18. September 2004: ERFURT (62) * 26. November 2004: FRANKFURT (63) * 27. November 2004: NEUNKIRCHEN/SAAR (64) * 28. November 2004: HEIDELBERG (65) * 10. April 2005: ISERLOHN (66) * 11. June 2005: GRAFENRHEINFELD (67) * 15. July 2005: KLOSTER EBERBACH / RHEINGAU (68) * 19. November 2005: DÜSSELDORF (69) * 14. December 2005: HERNE (70) * 17. January 2006: ASCHAFFENBURG (71) * 18. January 2006: FULDA (72) * 17. März 2006: DATTELN (73) * 5. June 2006: BRACKENHEIM (74) * 9. July 2006: WUPPERTAL (75) * 22. September 2006: DORMAGEN-KNECHTSTEDEN (76) * 2. October 2006: HEIDELBERG (77) * 25. October 2006: STUTTGART (78) * 17. July 2007: WIESBADEN (79) * 20. September 2007: LEVERKUSEN (80) * 23. September 2007: WETZLAR (81) * 30. September 2007: MAULBRONN (82) * 14. March 2008: STUTTGART (83) * 16. May 2008: BRÜHL (84) * 4. November 2008: FULDA (85) * 7. November 2008: FRANKFURT (86) * 12. March 2009: DARMSTADT (87) * 10. July 2009: KOBLENZ (88) * 4. December 2009: WIESBADEN (89) * 12. March 2010: SCHWAIGERN (90) * 12. June 2010: NIEDERGRÜNDAU (91) * 20. September 2010: BONN (92) * 26. September 2010: BAD HOMBURG (93) * 17. July 2011: MAULBRONN (94) * 20. July 2011: MAINZ (95) * 18. January 2012: KÖLN (96) * 18. April 2012: WÜRZBURG (97) * 19. April 2012: HEIDELBERG (98) * 22. July 2012: WEILBURG (99) * 27. September 2012: DORMAGEN-KNECHTSTEDEN (100) * 26. September 2013: DARMSTADT (101) * 16. March 2014: ESSLINGEN (102) * 4. April 2014: HEIDELBERG (103) * 5. June 2014: WÜRZBURG (104) * 30. October 2014: SIEGEN (105) * 24. July 2015: WIESBADEN (106) * 20. September 2015: BAD SALZUNGEN (107)
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A Radio-Live-Show of 2000 is to be found here - again broadcasted in 2003.
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The King's Singers 2000 in Würzburg / Germany
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And for the time between the concerts I have more than 100 different CDs, LPs, Videos, and Live-Recordings (broadcasted on radio) at home - more to come!
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The King's Singers 2001 in Wetzlar / Germany
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For more information visit the official homepage of the King's Singers (http://www.kingssingers.com) and a well-made unofficial homepage of a King's Singers fan in USA (http://www.kingssing.com).
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"Six Characters in Search of an Opera" - The King's Singers 2002 in Ludwigsburg
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