Kamēr...
Kamēr...
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About Kamēr...
A youthful passion combined with highly refined vocal skills and sensuous musicality — these are the qualities that best define the youth choir Kamēr..., founded in 1990 in Rīga, Latvia by conductor Māris Sirmais, who still leads the choir today. Since foundation, the choir has won dozens of diplomas, cups, and trophies in various choral competitions, and each award has brought the choir one step higher and closer to the musical ideals that they are striving to reach. These include a prize at the Marktoberdorf chamber choir competition in Germany in 1999, the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing in Gorizia, Italy, in 2004, as well as three championship prizes and gold medals at the World Choir Olympics in Xianmen, China, in 2006. In recent years Kamēr... has worked with programs specially commissioned for the choir. In this way, the choir has developed a unique repertoire as well as enhanced the world’s body of a capella choral music with new works by remarkable composers. The choir’s biggest project to date is World Sun Songs (2008), which featured seventeen new choral works by world-renowned composers. The songs were premiered in Riga in July 2008, and were later performed at the World Symposium on Choral Music in Copenhagen. A natural step forward was the project Moon Songs in February 2012, for which 10 new pieces by Latvian composers were written, following the first part of the concert – a staging of Orff’s The Moon, where the singers lived the parts of peasants, villagers and even the dead.
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