Stemning Ensemble from Germany is on tour in Denmark and southern Sweden around August 25, and Scandinavian music is indeed part of the choir’s core repertoire. For this concert, however, they primarily have German music on the program, including works by J.S. Bach and Heinrich Schütz, while Lille MUKO will perform music by the Danish composer Niels la Cour – one of today’s most recognized Danish choral composers, who is turning 80 this year.
Therefore, the choice of a joint piece of music naturally fell on a work by Niels la Cour, and the choirs will join forces in the performance of Fides et Spes – Faith and Hope – a piece in three movements.
Admission is free from half an hour before the concert.
About the participants
Stemning Ensemble is based in Freiburg in southern Germany. Founded in 1918, it consists of 22 young singers from Germany, Switzerland, and France.
Johannes Kaupp is the choir’s conductor and studied in Mainz, Vienna, and in Freiburg under the Danish conductor Morten Schuldt-Jensen.
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The University Choir Lille MUKO was established in 1967 as an elite choir within the music program at the University of Copenhagen, but has for many years been an independent association. Today, the choir is a more diverse group of skilled and ambitious singers, though it still includes several current and former music students.
Ole Faurschou is the choir’s conductor. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2003 and also studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.