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| Programa general | Teatro Degollado | Concert May 23rd. Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Teatro Degollado
"La Música en la Corte de Dresde y el Beethoven del Siglo XVII"
BALTHASAR NEUMANN ENSEMBLE In 1991 Thomas Hengelbrock founded the Balthasar Neumann Choir and in 1995, and in the Balhtasar Neumann Ensemble excellent vocal soloists and interpreters participated. The choir offers the ideal sonorous background for compositions such as Monteverdi’s Marienvesper. Because of their open cooperation, both soloists and interpreters can produce, in a single session, unusual concert programs and creative theatrical plays, under such exceptional stage directors as Achim Freyer, Philippe Arlaud or Thomas Hengelbrock himself. Thomas Hengelbrock and the cast have become famous for discovering forgotten pieces and interpreting well known repertoires in the most original and fresh manner. There are innovative projects in which music is always an artistic mélange of recitation, theatre and dance. Choir and ensemble work with great actors, as Graham Valentine y Klaus Maria Brandauer. They have been greatly successful at the Salzburg Festivals and the Opera National de Paris. Tobias Hiller
Tobias Hiller was born in Waldkrich (Breisgau, Germany.) At the Fribourg Music School, he specialized in singing, oboe and conducting, as well as in Geography and History; he also studied Choral and Orchestra conducting under Professor Wolfgang Schäfer at the Frankfurt am Mein Superior School of Music. As a professional choir singer, and also as a soloist, he sang under the batons of Gielen, Inbal, Herreweghe, Koopman, Leonhardt, Hengelbrock, Eötvös and Bolton among others. As a cast singer, he was part of the Orlando Di Lasso Ensemble from 1991 to 2001, devoting himself mostly to musica antiqua. In the framework of his solfeggio teaching at the Fribourg Superior Music School, he has been requested to conduct numerous premieres for the New Music Institute. As conductor for different companies both in Germany and Switzerland, he has interpreted a vast concert repertoire. Apart from his normal activities as choir direction and singing teacher for different companies throughout Germany, since 2005 he has offered courses as guest teacher in Brazil and the United States. Tobias Hiller took over a position as Music Director at the Tübingen University, and has since then received many invitations with his company to many European countries as well as to Morocco, China, Brazil and the United States. In July 2003, he obtained the third prize with the Camerata Vocalis at the 40th edition of the International Choirs Contest at Spittal an der Drau, Austria, in the Lied category, and was named simultaneously the best European Choir. During the Summer of 2005, he inaugurated the Sacred Music European Festival at Schwäbisch Gmünd interpreting Britten’s War Requiem. As a guest director, he has offered concerts with choirs and orchestras in France, The Check Republic, Switzerland and the United States. He collaborated with the Bach Fest Leipzig, the Art Festival at Weimar and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival among others. Some of Tobias Hiller choir compositions have been recently recorded with the Camerata Vocalis, in collaboration with SWR Radio: Musikalische Mörikekommentare in a CD for Eduard Mörike bicentennial anniversary (presented by Christian Brückner in 2004), and the Engelstriptychon in the “Engelsgesänge” CD in (2006). He has the merit of having completed the third movement of Schubert’s “Die Unvollendete” Symphony, published in 2004 in Schubert Perspectives (Schubert Perspektiven.)
Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble
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