Master-Chorus-Course at Chinese National Grand Theater

Location: The data center of Chinese National Grand Theater

Date: Evening of August 5^th, 2014

At invitation of Chinese National Grand Theater, Beijing Eurovista Arts Promotion Co., Ltd. will bring Frieder Bernius, the world famous conductor from Germany, alongside with the Kammerchor Stuttgart, one of the toppest choruses in the world, to the Chorus-Festival in China in August 2014, which will be centerpiece of this festival. In addition, Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart will also give a performance in Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and Guangzhou Opera House.

In order to achieve the educational goal of this festival more effectively, Frieder Bernius will conduct the Beijing Haiyun Chorus in the data center of Chinese National Grand Theater in the evening of August 5^th and accomplish the Master-Chorus-Course with Harmonia Choir together.

Lingfen Wu is vice president of China Chorus Association and professor of Conducting Department at China Conservatory of Music. She is not only a popular conductor on stage but also a beloved teacher at the podium. She has made a great contribution to the development of chinese chorus and the popularization of music education in china.

Harmonia Choir is founded together by China Chorus Association, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education and Professor Lingfen Wu in 27.04.2012. The members are either students from China Conservatory of Music, outstanding music teacher from schools in Beijing or chorus lovers from other fields. The art director and head of the chorus is professor Lingfen Wu, one of the most famous music educator and conductor in china.

Now we are recruiting for the choral conductor, music teachers, students to take part in this activity. The activity is a free public service program of National Theater and is Free Admission by ticket. 

As the seats are limited, please apply as soon as possible.

If you take part in the Master-Chorus-Course, you can get the chance to contact the world famous chorus conductor zero distance, acquire knowledge and experience of the master conductor, which will help not only to broaden the international vision of the chorus’s members and the conductors and music teachers, but also to improve the skills of conducting a chorus and make it reach the world level!

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Sponsor: Beijing Eurovista Arts Promotion Co., Ltd.

Tel:    Fan Yang 010 82500117

Email:  info@eurovista.com.cn     Website : www.eurovista.com.cn

The Conductor

The work of Frieder Bernius has received great acclaim throughout the world. He is in demand internationally as both conductor and teacher. His chief artistic partners are the Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, which he created in the course of time. The foundation for his exceptional career was laid in 1968 by the establishment of the Kammerchor Stuttgart, which he soon turned into one of the leading ensembles of its kind. The founding of the Barockorchester Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart in 1991 reflects his stylistic versatility as a conductor. Whereas the Barockorchester plays historical musical instruments of the 18th century, the Klassische Philharmonie performs works of the 19th to 21st centuries on modern instruments. The Hofkapelle Stuttgart established by Bernius in 2006, finally, is an ensemble specializing in the music of the early 19th century. 

Whether directing vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, the stage music of Mendelssohn, or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, he is always aiming for a musical ideal orientated to original period sound, but also unmistakably personal. He devotes himself to the rediscovery of 18th-century operas on the one hand, and premières of contemporary compositions on the other. 

He has given concerts at all the major international festivals, visiting Flanders, Linz, Salzburg, Brussels, Leipzig, Dresden, Schleswig-Holstein, Holstein, Schwetzingen, Budapest and Innsbruck in addition to repeatedly touring the Far East, Canada, Israel, Australia, Asia and the USA. He has directed the World Youth Choir four times and has also guested at four World Choral Music Symposia. As a guest conductor he has appeared with such orchestras as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. 

In 1987 he founded the Internationale Festtage Alter Musik Stuttgart (which since 2004 has enjoyed further success under the name of Festival Stuttgart Barock). This festival immediately made Stuttgart a center of historically informed performance practice and the location of widely noted rediscoveries of forgotten musical treasures. 

Frieder Bernius' work is documented on many recordings and CD albums. So far he has made around 100 recordings, which have received some 40 international awards such as: ‘Choc du Monde de la musique’, ICMA-Award for the best choral work 2013 and the ‘Edison Klassiek’ for his Schuetz and Bach recordings, the ‘Diapason d’Or de l’année’ for Mozart’s Requiem and many ‘Quarterly Awards of the German Record Critics’ for a-capella recordings. 

He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande for services to German musical life in 1993 and the Robert Edler Prize for Choral Music in 2001. In 2002 he gained the Verdienstmedaille of the State of Baden-Württemberg, and in 2004 he received the Schwäbisch Gmünd Prize for European Church Music and 2009 the Bach Medal Leipzig. 

The Kammerchor Stuttgart ranks as one of the leading ensembles of its kind. During the forty years of its existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an extraordinary phenomenon which is valued by audiences and critics alike. The well known "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" reported that it was “a vocally wonderfully constituted ensemble with every imaginable virtue from lyrical brilliance and utterly perfect purity of intonation to a malleability in text declamation which could hardly be surpassed.” The ZEIT an other international german newspaper, wrote recently “No superlative is wasted, to praise this choir.”

So this élite choir was subsequently invited to all the major European festivals, visiting such places as Flanders, Linz, Salzburg, Göttingen, Schwetzingen, Witten, Dresden, Kassel, Brussels, Nuremberg, Ludwigsburg, Leipzig, Halle, Budapest, Innsbruck, Merano, Vézelay and the Rheingau Music Festival. 

Hence the choir's repertoire extends from the 17th to the 21st century. Only medieval and renaissance music is excluded. The choir's flexibility, however, relates not only to styles but also to musical genres, the Kammerchor being just as much at home with a-cappella singing as with operas and oratorios. It also figures as an ensemble of solo singers. 

Over 90 gramophone records and CDs featuring the choir have been released by EMI, Sony and Carus, around 40 of which received international record awards (Edison, Diapason d'or, Classical Internet Award, numerous Preise der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, ICMA ). This was an acknowledgement by the musical Press of the Kammerchor's great virtues of homogeneity, perfect intonation and aural transparency. Since 1984 the choir has also visited Israel every other year. Various invitations to tour North America and Asia in similarly document the world-wide reputation since of the Kammerchor Stuttgart.