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The Camerata Vocale München was founded in 2016 on the initiative of Clayton Bowman, initially as a project choir with singers from Munich and Heidelberg. As a first project, the Camerata organized a motet service on Palm Sunday 2016 with J.S. Bach's Motet Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 in the oldest Protestant church in Munich, the St. Paulus-Kirche in Stadtteil Perlach. In the same year, a Whit Sunday concert followed with choral music from five centuries with works by Max Reger, Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Gesualdo, Whitacre, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others, also in St. Paulus/Perlach. In March 2017, the Camerata Vocale developed its last program as a project choir with Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti, Requiem by Ildebrando Pizzetti and Crucifixus by Antonio Lotti, which was performed in the Nikodemuskirche München and in the Lutherkirche Mannheim on the occasion of a bell inauguration.
The Camerata Vocale has existed as an ambitious Münchner Kammerchor with regular rehearsals since summer 2017 and now has 23 members. After smaller appearances in church services at the KHG of the LMU and in St. Paulus/Perlach, the Camerata Vocale gave its debut concert there in January 2018 with the title “Why?”. A-capella works by M. Reger, Johannes Brahms and R. Vaughan Williams, among others, were heard. In April 2018, the choir took part in a production by the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, in which the Baroque opera La Dafne by Marco da Gagliano was performed as part of the Barocktage in the Großen Konzertsaal der HMT and in the Kreuzkirche Schwabing. The choir concluded the concert season with two performances in St. Paulus in Munich/Perlach and St. Leonhard in Nußdorf am Inn in July 2018, each of which featured sophisticated vocal music from the English choral tradition under the motto "There is Sweet Music" with works by Henry Purcell, B. Britten, Edward Elgar, R. Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and William Walton.
In December 2018, the Camerata Vocale München was part of an Advent concert entitled “In dulci jubilo” with works by Francis Poulenc (Quatre motets pour le temps de noël), Michael Praetorius (In dulci jubilo), H. Howells (A spotless rose), Andreas Hammerschmidt (Machet die Tore weit), Thompson (Alleluia) and Weelkes (Hosanna to the son of David) can be heard in the foyer of the TU Rosenheim and the St. Paulus Church in Munich/Perlach. The “Summer Winds” concert in July 2019 featured a-capella music from the English Romanticism of E. Elgar and the French Impressionism of Claude Debussy, as well as the rarely heard Mass for Choir and Double Wind Quintet by Igor Stravinsky. The Camerata Vocale München has also existed as a registered association since August 2019.
The choir opened the 2019-2020 concert season with two well-attended concerts in St. Nikolaus Rosenheim and St. Johann-Baptist München. Under the motto “NachtLieder” works for choir and organ (soloist Sul Bi Yi) by Finzi, J. Brahms, M. Reger, R. Vaughan Williams, Arvo Pärt and Parry were performed. In June 2021, after several postponements, the “Exequien” program was performed in the Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz with the participation of well-known vocal and instrumental soloists. The implementation of the concert, the focus of which was the Musical Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, the three parts of which were framed by the other works, including Knut Nystedt's Stabat Mater and John Tavener's Svyati by, fulfilled the Camerata Vocale München as well Audience in the hall, which was sold out under pandemic conditions, with exuberant joy. It was the first program to receive cultural funding from the state capital of Munich.
The high quality that the young choir has achieved in a short time is demonstrated, among other things, by its acceptance into the Verband Deutscher Konzertchöre e.V. and the choir's participation in the production of August Strindberg's Der Vater at the Münchner Kammerspielen. |
