Ticketed event: $40 General / $35 Senior
$5 Student tickets available at the door.
Wolfram Lattke Tenor
THE SOUND OF DISTINCTION
It all began in Leipzig – a city which has lived, breathed and celebrated music for centuries. Vocal quintet amarcord was founded in 1992 by members of St Thomas’s Boys Choir who dreamed of making their shared passion for vocal music their career. These days, following a string of highly acclaimed CD recordings, awards and international recitals, amarcord has long been a household name in the world of vocal ensembles. Many even say they’re in a class of their own!
Robert Pohlers Tenor
PERFECTION WITH SOUL
Five voices which have become legendary for their homogenous sound. Five singers who jointly explore the character of each song in order to bring it to life for the audience. Five singers so perfectly in tune with each other that their ‘vocal instrument’ spans the range of an entire orchestra. Listening to amarcord reminds us that singing is the most natural form of music – produced by the body for the human soul.
Frank Ozimek Baritone
THEIR HALLMARK: STYLISTIC VARIABILITY
There is probably no other vocal ensemble as varied or as flexible as amarcord. Wolfram Lattke, Robert Pohlers, Frank Ozimek, Daniel Knauft and Holger Krause lend a contemporary voice to medieval songs, renaissance madrigals and Romantic compositions. With their roots in the city where Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked for decades, and with their performance skills blessed with instinctive certainty, the five singers intone the vocal heritage of Bach, come up with inventive arrangements of traditional folk songs, and even add their own drive to jazz and soul songs. Yet despite treating each style individually, the result is always unmistakably amarcord: accomplished, harmonically sophisticated, and brilliantly performed.
Daniel Knauft Bass
MUSIC SPAWNED BY CURIOSITY
Behind amarcord’s success is its curiosity for music of every type and genre, its history, compositions, traditions and uniqueness. Over the years, the members have forged a musical diversity taking them to over 50 countries, where they keep their eyes and ears open amidst the local musical heritage in search of inspiration for future programmes. Music, musicians, people and places merge into a symbiosis which remains the driving force behind amarcord.
Holger Krause Bass
BRINGING PAST TO PRESENT
For the audience, this is now the golden age of amarcord, an ensemble at the height of its abilities. With their musical perfection, conceptual prowess and world-class voices, Wolfram Lattke, Robert Pohlers, Frank Ozimek, Daniel Knauft and Holger Krause leave their mark today where tomorrow their legacy will lie.
Experiencing these five exceptional singers from Leipzig is an unforgettable experience. The ensemble’s name is perfectly apt, for in the Emilia-Romagna dialect, the word amarcord means ‘I remember’. In their performances, amarcord unearth musical gems from yesteryear and present jewels of contemporary composition, creating an unforgettable evening for the audience which long lives on in the memory.