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THE JURY
The jury will invite the conductors of all participating choirs to a post competition breakfast to honor their efforts and to give encouragement and support fpr the further course of the choirs, which competed, offering council and friendship. The high professional reputation of the jury members is another distinction of the "Brahms Vienna International Competition". Time allowing Mr. Herwig Reiter, whose "Das kleine Halleluja" the choirs will have to master, will watch the cometition and is invited to the breakfast.
One aim of the competition is furthermore to bring Americans and Europeans in closer contact and exchange.
We also think that only Americans can really interpret a spiritual or Bernstein and we admire this. We also think that we live in the tradition of the music which was composed here. For instance the "Wiener Singakademie" was conducted by Brahms and still sings great music in the Konzerthaus, the Vienna music institution rivaling in glamour and fame the Musikverein. So participation in the competition is also a reaching our for this tradition and authenticity. Following Brahms as conductor of the "Singakademie" conductors and singers passed on this tradition as a precious gift.
Erwin Ortner Head of the Church Music Department of the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts and founder and conductor of the Arnold Schoenberg Chor. he conducts all over Europe and in Japan and is one of the most respected European conductors and certainly the "doyen" of the Austrian choral directors. He won three inernational prices for his recoding of Schubert´s choral work, served a term as "Rektor" of the University of Music among whose graduates are Abbado and Metha, stars among the international conductors. Ortner´s Schoenberg Chor has 180 members and is engaged at the Salzburg Festival, the prestigious "Styriarte", a new festival directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt who is a singular gift to the opera in Zürich, the Salzburg Festival and the Musikverein. Ortner´s choir performs with Harnoncourt in a recording of all Mozart works on Teldec. The Schoenberg Chor has also be honored to become the choir of the newly renovated opera house "Theater an der Wien", getting applaus for its new Mozart productions.
Èva Kollár
John Poole Mr. Poole conducted the February 17 performance of the Mozart Requiem at the ACDA convention in Chicago with his choir from the Indiana University after performing the Requiem twice for the American Mozart Society. He conducts three choirs and teaches doctoral candidates at the Indiana University. Mr. Poole is an Oxfort University graduate and was conductor of the acclaimed BBS Singers in London touring with them internationally. Mr. Poole also was a member of the jury of the young conductios competition and was previously in Vienna with the BBS singers, who are one of the top European choirs covering all styles and periods. The tapes of their concerts are a treasure of choral music in the BBC Library.
ATTENTION!
Most likely Prof. Donald Neuen, Music Director of Crystal Cathedral in Yorba Linda, California, USA, will be an adjudicator. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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She was also a judge in the choral directors competition and is a leading figure in European choral music. Kollár is head of the Music Teachers´ and and Choral Directors´Faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Music Academy, Budapest and founder of the Budapest Monteverdi Choir. She is a member of the Music Commision of the "AGEC" that is a grouping of the European choir associations.