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Collegium musicum
The Cologne University’s Collegium musicum represents the institution’s musical life. It offers its members numerous opportunities to attend and perform in concerts. In addition to the Cologne University Chamber Choir and Orchestra, the Collegium musicum features a symphony orchestra, several choirs and a capella groups, a jazz choir and a Big Band. The weekly concert series „Universitätskonzerte“, in which they host not only their own ensembles but various professional artists, is an integral part of their work.
The Collegium musicum considers it crucial to both preserve well-known works as well as explore new repertoire. In April 2012, their choirs and orchestras were featured in the 8 Brücken Festival in Cologne, staging experimental music by and inspired by John Cage.
Chamber Choir
The chamber choir has impressed audiences with their flexible tone and resonance and highly nuanced musical expression as well as experimental performance concepts, for example collaborating with dancers and with an illumination-artist.
Concert tours have taken the choir to Boston and New York, where the choir performed together with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, to Prague, Münster and Hannover (Germany).
The choir sang under the baton of conductors such as Andrew Clark (USA), Anthony Trecek-King (USA), Timothy Shantz (Canada), Haig Utidjian (Czech Republic) and will work with the young Latvian conductor Jānis Liepiņš in october 2015.
Chamber Orchestra
The chamber orchestra gives very experienced and accomplished instrumentalists a chance to study and perform orchestral pieces within short periods of rehearsal time. Highlights include the Clarinet Concerto by Aaron Copland, symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven and the premiere of the commissioned work Farbenlehre by Friedrich Jaecker, which required becoming acquainted with the playing techniques of modern music.
In 2010, the ensemble collaborated with the American conductor Neil Varon for a workshop in conducting, where orchestra members themselves took the conductor’s podium.
