Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor
The Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor is an integral part of the grand concert and opera productions of the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Landestheater, offering children and teenagers not only unforgettable impressions of professional theatre work, but also a well-grounded vocal and musical education throughout the year. In various pre-chorus groups, the younger children are introduced to singing in an age-appropriate manner. The concert chorus currently comprises about hundred young singers from Austria and Germany aged six to sixteen, and from this pool choral groups are assembled for individual projects.
Next to the professional work-mode they experience, the joy of singing, but also the enthusiasm for their joint scenic appearances in costumes on stage is the main focus, and Salzburg audiences have already had ample opportunities to witness and appreciate this joy and enthusiasm.
Apart from its own concerts at the Salzburg Festival and Salzburg Easter Festival, the chorus has performed under the baton of such famous conductors as Riccardo Muti, Christian Thielemann, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bertrand de Billy and Zubin Mehta, appearing with such international orchestras as the Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna. Opera productions of the Salzburg Festival that featured the chorus include Die Frau ohne Schatten (2011), Macbeth (2011), Carmen (2012), La bohème (2012) and Das Labyrinth – Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (2012).
During the 2013 Festival summer the Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor will participate in the following concerts:
Wednesday, 24 July, 2013, 9.00 p.m., Großes Festspielhaus
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8
Gustavo
Dudamel, Conductor
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Tuesday, 30 July, 2013, 8.00 p.m., Großes Festspielhaus
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 3 in d-Moll
Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Sunday, 18 August, 9.00 p.m., Großes Festspielhaus
Benjamin Britten: War Requiem op. 66
Antonio Pappano, Conductor
Orchestra dell’Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Thursday, 1 August, 8.00 p.m., Felsenreitschule
Walter Braunfels: Jeanne d'Arc – Szenen aus dem Leben der heiligen Johanna op. 57
Manfred Honeck, Conductor
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
The music director of the Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor is Wolfgang Götz, Regina Sgier is its vocal coach.
For further information and applications, please email kinderchor@salzburgfestival.at