Deutsches Chorfest 2025 Nürnberg - Future: Together!

Kings Choir
Conductor: Theodore Cookson

Vivid Voices
Conductor: Claudia Burghard

Works by Ivo Antognini, Theodore Cookson, Paul Simon and others as well as traditional pieces from Namibia

In this concert, Vivid Voices from the Hanover University of Music and Drama renews its friendship with the Kings Choir from the coastal town of Swakopmund/Walvisbay in Namibia. Music builds bridges and connects people whose ancestors share a painful past. This makes the joyful encounter all the more important now and for our common future.

Theodore Cookson, choirmaster and composer, presents traditional, dance music from Namibia as well as cross-genre repertoire from classical to pop with his powerful and excellently tuned choir. The ensemble emerged from the internationally renowned Mascato Youth Choir . The singers of Vivid Voices contrast, touch and groove with a cappella pop/jazz and other pieces from their democracy program.

This concert will be recorded by BR-Klassik. Broadcast dates at www.br-klassik.de.

With the kind support of the Goethe Institute, the Federal Foreign Office and the Dieter Fuchs Foundation.

Program:

Kings Choir
Ivo Antognini: Come to Me
Mary McDonald: Be Still Be Still
Paul Simon, arr. Kirby Shaw: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Cedric Haoseb: Garibasen
Namibian Folk Song: Nama Medley
Cedric Hoaseb: Etse

Kings Choir and Vivid Voices
Theodore Cookson: African Sleep

Vivid Voices
Arr. Joshua Bredemeier: Vivid Democracy Mash up
Moop Mama, arr. Joshua Bredemeier: Sea People
... and more songs