Call for Soloists for the performance of choral works on the threshold of the epochs at the 73rd Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth!

The general theme of this year's Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth is "Rituals.". We deal with foreign perspectives and show in a very direct way how musical rituals affect social values also beyond art.

With this goal in mind, we organize numerous workshops and concerts in Bayreuth and in the region. An important part of the festival academy is the choral and orchestral workshop, which makes our general theme audible in the comparison of sacred works of Baroque versus contemporary times:

 

The dawn of the new century - choral works on the threshold of the epochs.

George Frideric Handel's and Claudio Monteverdi's “Dixit Dominus” and Fredrik Schwenk's “Clemens dominus et iustus”

 

In the ten-day workshop, these three works will be rehearsed and performed..

Director: Fred Sjöberg (Sweden)
Bavarian Youth Baroque Orchestra, Chamber Choir of the Macedonian University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and soloists of the 73rd Festival of Young Artists Bayreuth

We are looking for voice students just before or after their graduation or young professional singers of the following voice ranges:
Soprano, Alto, Altus, Tenor, Bass

Arrival:

Wed, August 9, 2023

Rehearsals:

Thu, August 10 - Sun, August 13, 2023

Concerts:

Mon, August 14, 2023
Tue, August 15, 2023

Departure:

Wed, August 16, 2023

A CD recording of the project is planned as part of a live recording.
The Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth will provide accommodation and meals for the complete duration of the stay in Bayreuth as well as free admission to all festival events.

If you are interested in the project “The dawn of the new century” please contact us via: , Tel. 0921 9800446.
Contact person is Dr. Isabel von Bredow-Klaus.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

I’m delighted to come back to Bayreuth again after the pandemic years.

This festival and the continuation of it is so important for all of us and especially for young musicians. To be part on a professional organisation producing wonderful concerts is so important for a young student growing into a professional music life.

This year we focus on Dixit Dominus from Handel and Monteverdi and Schwenk. Handels Dixit Dominus is one of Handels earliest choral works, composed 1707 during his time in Italy, when he was only 22 years old. It has a youthful approach and are vivacious and uses the text from Psalm 110. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. The work is written in the baroque style of the period and is scored for five vocal soloists (SSATB), five-part chorus, strings and continuo. The Dixit Dominus from Monteverdi famous Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 occupies a key position in Monteverdi’s life and work, marking his reorientation from court musician to church musician, which was completed three years later with his appointment to San Marco in Venice. The first psalm, Psalm 110, begins with Dixit Dominus Dominum meum (The LORD said unto my Lord). Monteverdi set it for a six-part choir with divided sopranos and tenors, and six instruments, prescribing sex vocibus & sex instrumentis. The beginnings of verses are often in falsobordone recitation, leading to six-part polyphonic settings.

As a third Dixit Dominus we also have the joy to do a world premiere performing a composition composed by Prof. Fredrik Schwenk. We are excited and delighted to have the opportunity to do this world premiere.

- Fred Sjöberg