Dear singers, dear choir enthusiasts!
We can finally organize a choir academy once more as part of the St. Florian Bruckner Days. Since 2012, some of Bruckner’s great works have been performed in the monastery basilica, each with around 80 singers.
In our 2023 festival, we will have Bruckner’s most extensive psalm setting, Psalm 146, in the program together with the Altomonte Orchestra under the direction of our “conductor in residence”, Rémy Ballot. Most of this work was created during his time in Florian and was completed in Linz in 1856 and 1858. The special feature of this cantata-like composition is the double choir system, which is why we are allowed to work with two experienced choir teachers “ob” and “lower” the Enns: Edgar Wolf, who has already led several choir academies at the Bruckner Days and the Regens Chori of the St. Florian, Martin Zeller, who also works as a choir director at the Linz Music Theater. In the course of this concert, Bruckner’s “0th” symphony will also be played.
We would all be very happy if this choral work might be heard over the master’s grave with numerous enthusiastic singers.
With musical greetings, Matthias Giesen
CHOIR ACADEMY – AS PART OF ST. FLORIAN BRUCKNER DAYS 2023
DATE: Fri, 08/11/2023 – Sat, 08/19/2023
TOPIC: Encountering Anton Bruckner’s choral music
LITERATURE: Anton Bruckner, Psalm 146 four-part mixed double choir, soloists, large orchestra
INVITATION
Experienced choral singers from Upper Austria and the neighboring Enns-Donauwinkel are invited to study the rarely performed work as part of the Choral Academy. The rehearsals take place in the “Florian Hall” of the St. Florian State Music School. At the end of the St. Florian Bruckner Days, the work will be performed in the basilica with the Altomonte Orchestra conducted by Rémy Ballot.
NUTS
Volume XX/4 of the Anton Bruckner complete edition in the musicological publishing house in Vienna. / Psalm 146 – piano reduction. Issued at the first rehearsal on Friday, August 11th, 2023.
The grades are the property of the participants.
FINANCES
An organization fee of EUR 80.00 must be paid for participation. This amount includes the piano reduction, introduction to the work, choral voice training at the work, buffet following the concert and a ticket to visit the concert.
CHOIR STUDY
Martin Zeller, choir director
He studied school and church music and geography in Stuttgart, and choral and orchestral conducting in Vienna. He has been working as deputy choir director at the Landestheater Linz since 2012. As Regens Chori, he has been directing the monastery choir of St. Florian Monastery since 2018. He is also director of the Bruckner Choir Linz. In his spare time he also likes to arrange and compose something, especially for a choir.
Edgar Wolf, choirmaster
He was a Vienna Boys’ Choir. In addition to teaching at the Hauptschule in Haag, he studied singing pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the choral director training program for the Lower Austrian Choral Scene. In the Austrian Choral Association he was responsible for further training events for choir directors. Now he holds singing days for singers aged 60+ in Austria and South Tyrol. He is a co-founder of the St. Florian Choir Academy as part of the “St. Florian Bruckner Days”.
Please send us the choir registration by post or email.
BY POST: Chorherrenstift St. Florian, Stiftsladen, z. Attn: Ms. Victoria Wall, Stiftstraße 1, 4490 St. Florian
BY E-MAIL: [email protected] – with the subject: CHAK registration
