Tickets for the dates of the Festive Christmas Concerts 2019 will also be on sale on Monday, 23. December 2019 from 9am-6pm at the Concert Office, Mauerstr. 17 (Achteckhaus)
The Concert Office of the Darmstadt Concert Choir will be open on Monday, 23. December 2019 from 9am-6pm and will be available for the purchase of concert tickets for the Christmas concerts, but also for the concerts in 2020. On Dec. 24, tickets can be purchased between 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Ticket Shop in the Luisen Center; the Concert Office will not be open on Dec. 24. Concert tickets are always a popular gift for Christmas and other occasions and allow the recipient to enjoy an unforgettable concert experience.
The Festive Christmas Concerts of the Darmstadt Concert Choir in Babenhausen (Sat, Dec 21, 7.30pm in the Ev. Stadtkirche), in Amorbach (Sun, Dec 22, 4pm in the Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Gangolf) and in Darmstadt (on Thu, 26.12.2019 - Boxing Day -, at 5 pm, in the Pauluskirche) have classical works of well-known and rarely performed composers in the program.
The Konzertchor Darmstadt, the Darmstädter Hofkapelle as well as some soloists under the direction of Wolfgang Seeliger will enchant the audience with classical music on the days of Advent and Christmas. The Darmstädter Hofkapelle will not only accompany the Konzertchor Darmstadt, but also the soloists Swantje Hoffmann, violin and Leonard Schelb, flute. Swantje Hoffmann, the long-time concertmaster of the Darmstadt Hofkapelle, will play Ludwig van Beethoven's Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F major, op. 50, and Leonard Schelb will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Andante for Solo Flute and Orchestra, KV 351. In addition, Clara Maria Kastenholz, soprano, and Richard Resch, tenor, two promising young soloists, will sing.
The program focuses on Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Christmas Cantilenas to a text by Matthias Claudius, who lived in Darmstadt for a year beginning in early 1777, and François-Joseph Gossec's double-choir oratorio "La Nativité". More familiar works of the evening include the Kyrie in D minor, D 31 by Franz Schubert, with which the concert begins, and the festive Christmas Te Deum in C major by Joseph Haydn, composed for the Empress Marie Therese, with which the concert concludes.
Soprano Clara Maria Kastenholz received her first singing lessons in early childhood. Since 2014 she has been studying singing with a focus on opera at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where she is completing her master's degree in voice/music theater. Tenor Richard Resch received his first musical training with the Regensburger Domspatzen and in his vocal studies at the Leopold Mozart Center of the University of Augsburg as well as at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he received lessons from renowned singers.
Tickets:
Tickets for Darmstadt, Babenhausen and Amorbach (between 17 - 38 euros plus. VVK fees) you get in the concert office Darmstadt
Tel. 06151 20 400, online at www.konzertchor-darmstadt.de and at the known advance booking offices.
