Biography:
| The soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir: About fifteen soloists, who are particularly talented within the choir, make up the chamber choir of the Tölz Boys' Choir. Paris, Rome, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Madrid, Milan, Vienna, Chicago, Los Angeles New York, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Shanghai, Tokyo. Even at the big festivals, such as u. The Tölz soloists are regular guests in Salzburg, Bayreuth, Vienna, Aix-en-Provence, Orange, Avanches, Spoleto and Edinburgh cantatas by J. S. Bach conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1982 Grammy Award nominee), the the Matthäuspassion by J. S. Bach under Gustav Leonhardt, recording the 4st Symphony by Gustav Mahler under Leonard Bernstein, the complete recording of the Small spiritual concerts and the sacred choral music by Heinrich Schütz under Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden as well as the recording of the Diapason d'Or and the Echo Klassik Penitential Psalms of David by Orlando di Lasso.The opera and concert repertoire of the soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir includes among others Amore from Claudio Monteverdi Orpheus, Il ritorno d'Ulisse, The coronation of Poppea, the Three Boys from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Apollo, Hyacinth, Melia, Zephyrus from Apollo and Hyacinth, forest bird from Richard Wagner's Siegfried, shepherd boy out Tannhäuser, Yniold from Claude Debussy Pelleas and Mélisande, Amore from Christoph Willibald Glucks Orpheus and Eurydice, Miles from Benjamin Brittens Turn of the screw, 18 boys soloists from Jörg Widmanns The face in the mirror, Young Joseph from Hans Zenders Chief Joseph and Leonard Bernsteins Chichester Psalms, Gabriel Faures Requiem, Gustav Mahler plaintive song, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Elias. The Tölz Boys' Choir was founded in 1956 by the conductor and singing teacher Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden and celebrated its 2006th anniversary in 50. The choir has also been rehearsing in the state capital of Munich since 1971. There, more than 200 boys are trained in four levels by the founder and choir director Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, the artistic director Ralph Ludewig as well as seven other singing teachers and later supervised in their own men's choir. The basis of the work is the joy of singing, coupled with the creativity, spontaneity and self-discipline of the boys. After completing their training, they sing at up to 250 concerts or opera performances worldwide every year with music from the Middle Ages to the modern age. One of the focal points is church music from the Baroque and Classical eras. The soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir achieved fame with the roles of the Three Boys from Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (12 CD recordings). The Tölzer Knabenchor gives guest performances in Japan, China, Israel, the USA and in almost all European countries. Well-known conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache, John Eliot Gardiner, Maris Jansons, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Georg Solti and Marcello Viotti have already worked with the Tölz Boys' Choir. The Tölz Boys' Choir received numerous awards for recordings, e.g. Special prices for that Orff Schulwerk, the German Record Prize for Bachs Christmas Oratorio (1973), the French record prize for Mozart's opera Apollo and Hyacinthus, the French Diapason d'Or and the Echo Klassik from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie Berlin for the Penitential Psalms of David by Orlando di Lasso (2003). The Tölzer Boys' Choir is funded by the Free State of Bavaria, the District of Upper Bavaria, the City of Bad Tölz and the Bavarian People's Foundation. Since May 2010, the Tölz Boys' Choir has been an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages |
Albums:
Merry Christmas – Traditional and New Christmas Music:
