The Vokalensemble Orlando will create Christmas anticipation together with the ElztalSinfonietta Freiburg under the direction of Lukas Grimm
leave. From Buxtehude, Rosenmüller to Bach and other well-known Advent songs from the old masters, the two ensembles perform sensitively
interpreted. Let yourself be taken on a musical journey through the different epochs of time and enjoy the pre-Christmas festivities
The atmosphere.
The four singers of the Orlando ensemble Hanna Schmal (soprano), Janne Munkwitz (soprano), Mika Stähle (tenor) and William Roberts (bass)
came together in the vicinity of the music academy in Trossingen. Here they study early music with a major in singing with Jan Van Elsa cker or sing in the
Vocal ensemble of the Institute for Historical Performance Practice.
The ElztalSinfonietta Freiburg was founded under Prof. Schweizer with the Daxer couple in December 2002 in order to create an ensemble that
various chamber music ensembles and as a symphony orchestra and is characterized by musical flexibility with great professionalism
creative power. The orchestra consists of mostly freelance, professional musicians, all experienced in baroque/historical music
performance practice.
Projects followed, among others, as part of the Glottertäler and Staufener Horntage, in the municipal and church concert series by Genbach, as well as in
Cooperation with choirs from the region (including the Freiburg Chamber Choir) and concerts in solo ensembles in the supra-regional area.
From the founding of the orchestra until 2012, the musical director was Prof. Rolf Schweizer. Lukas Grimm has since taken over the artistic direction of the
orchestra
Lukas Grimm (*1986) studied church music and organ improvisation at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. After his
He completed his master’s degree in orchestral conducting at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, which he completed in April 2014 with distinction
might. As a conductor, Lukas Grimm has already worked and given concerts with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Baden n-Baden Philharmonic and the RIAS
Chamber Choir, as well as the choirs of the NDR and MDR. Engagements have taken him to the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe, and others
the folk drama Ötigheim. Lukas Grimm took over for René Jacobs on the Asia and European tours of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in 2018 and 2019
the rehearsals of the choirs on site. He was also promoted as a choir conductor from 2011 to 2016 in the DIRIGENTENFORUM of the German Music Council.
Lukas Grimm has been the artistic director of the Freiburg Chamber Choir and the ElztalSinfonietta Freiburg since 2013
Posted on Tue, December 20, 2022 at 5:28 p.m
