...wo die Zitronen blühn (figure humaine kammerchor)
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Choir
figure humaine kammerchor
figure humaine – the human face – is the inner guiding principle and name of the chamber choir of young musicians from Stuttgart which was founded in 2016. They are all united by the desire to perform choral music of a high chamber music standard. The musical focus of their work is on French and German music of the 19th to 21st centuries. A specialty of the choir and its leader and founder Denis Rouger are arrangements of French art songs, which in this way may make their way into the ears and hearts of European audiences. In addition to a reverence to the work of the poet Paul Èluard and the composer Francis Poulencs, the name of the choir also encompasses the power of each individual for the sound of the choir and for musical as well as humanistic interpretation. In addition to its Stuttgart season, the choir has been invited to several cities and festivals: the Festival for European Church Music Schwäbisch Gmünd, the festivals in Konstanz and Lorch as well as the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. In France, figure humaine has performed, among others, at the festival Les rencontres musicales in Vézelay in Bourgogne. The ensemble also collaborates with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and with Carus-Verlag in the creation of choral anthologies with accompanying CDs. figure humaine is supported by the city of Stuttgart and the state of Baden-Württemberg. Personal details
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Conductor
Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger gained his initial musical experience as the son of a Parisian family of musicians and during his studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he received first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint.
He was a lecturer and choirmaster at the University of Paris-Sorbonne for 20 years and choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral for 10 years. He is honorary conductor of the Parisian church La Madeleine. He also collaborates with numerous ensembles in Germany. He has been invited as a guest conductor by radio choirs, the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Choir and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Concerts have taken him to Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival).
He gives master classes in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany, as well as in Switzerland.
Denis Rouger has been Professor of Choral Conducting at the Stuttgart State University of Music and Performing Arts since 2011. The chamber choir he founded at the university in the fall of 2011 won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014.
In addition to his work as a choirmaster, he composes and arranges French and German songs for choir. His arrangements on the CDs Kennst Du das Land ... and ... wo die Zitronen blühn (Carus) were well received by the press and radio. In collaboration with Carus-Verlag, he has edited the choir book Französische Chormusik, which received the German Music Edition Award “Best Edition” in 2019.
In 2016, Denis Rouger founded the figure humaine kammerchor (www.figurehumaine.de), with which he regularly gives concerts at renowned festivals.
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Soloist - soprano
Hannah Gries
Hannah Gries was born in Limburg in 1996. She began her vocal training at a young age, first with the mezzo-soprano Alison Browner and later with the soprano Sabine Götz in Mannheim. In addition to numerous choral activities she has become a much sought-after concert singer. Her repertoire includes various masses and cantatas by Schubert, Mozart, Bach, Haydn or Telemann, including for example the solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen by J. S. Bach. In addition, works such as Handel’s Messiah (also in the version by Mozart), as well as Haydn’s Creation, are now part of her repertoire. In June 2017, she made her debut as First Boy in the new production of the Magic Flute at the University of Stuttgart under the direction of UMD Veronika Stoertzenbach. In 2018, she was heard together with the pianist Andreas Frese in Mirjam’s Siegesgesang by Franz Schubert in the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte. The young soprano is also active abroad, both in choirs and as a soloist, for example in Austria, England, Israel and Korea. In 2014, Hannah Gries won the scholarship of the Kreissparkasse Limburg for young talented musicians. Since October 2015, she has been studying for a BA in singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Ulrike Sonntag. Personal details
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Artist
figure humaine kammerchor
figure humaine – the human face – is the inner guiding principle and name of the chamber choir of young musicians from Stuttgart which was founded in 2016. They are all united by the desire to perform choral music of a high chamber music standard. The musical focus of their work is on French and German music of the 19th to 21st centuries. A specialty of the choir and its leader and founder Denis Rouger are arrangements of French art songs, which in this way may make their way into the ears and hearts of European audiences. In addition to a reverence to the work of the poet Paul Èluard and the composer Francis Poulencs, the name of the choir also encompasses the power of each individual for the sound of the choir and for musical as well as humanistic interpretation. In addition to its Stuttgart season, the choir has been invited to several cities and festivals: the Festival for European Church Music Schwäbisch Gmünd, the festivals in Konstanz and Lorch as well as the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele. In France, figure humaine has performed, among others, at the festival Les rencontres musicales in Vézelay in Bourgogne. The ensemble also collaborates with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and with Carus-Verlag in the creation of choral anthologies with accompanying CDs. figure humaine is supported by the city of Stuttgart and the state of Baden-Württemberg. Personal details
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Soloist - horn
Miriam Zimmermann
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Soloist - horn
Eveline Balz
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Soloist - horn
Tz-Shiuan You
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Soloist - piano
Katharina Schlenker
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Soloist - piano
Julia Kammerlander
Julia Kammerlander, born in Stuttgart, began her piano studies with Klaus Hellwig in Berlin and later continued her studies with Péter Nagy in Stuttgart, where she completed her master’s degree with top marks in 2017. After winning a scholarship at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in the category piano, Julia Kammerlander became a participant in the national selection of Concerts by Young Artists in the 2012/13 season; this was followed by active concert activity throughout Germany. Among the orchestras with which she has performed as a soloist are the Landesjugendorchester Baden-Württemberg and Berlin, the Südwestdeutsche Kammerorchester Pforzheim, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Julia Kammerlander is a passionate and sought-after chamber musician. As a member of various duos and ensembles, she has most recently appeared at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad and Jeunes Talents Paris festivals, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Gezeitenkonzerte der Ostfriesischen Landschaft, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele. Recordings of her concerts have been broadcast by Deutschlandfunk, NDR, SWR and HR. Since 2016, she has been the pianist for the chamber choir figure humaine. Personal details