These pages represent my personal view of the amadeus choir. This is not the official home page of the amadeus choir.

the Amadeus choir

Conductor: Julian Christoph Tölle


Choir music at a very high level is the common interest of this ensemble of some 50 singers. Being located in Neuendettelsau (near Nuremberg, Germany) its members gather for rehearsal weekends from all over south germany once a month.

Karl-Friedrich Beringer, conductor of the Windsbacher Knabenchor since 1978, founded the amadeus choir in 1970. In february 1994 Julian Christoph Tölle was elected successor of K.-F. Beringer and thus became musical director of the amadeus choir.

The performance of world-reknown a capella choir pieces and of choir-orchestra programs with famous solo singers and orchestras in conjunction with its high artistic and technical level made the amadeus choir well known beyond the borders of franconia.

Several CD records and continuous radio broadcast productions with the "Bayerischer Rundfunk" show the diverse repertoire and the extraordinary quality of sound of the amadeus choir. Its outstanding performance was honored with a first price at the BBC international choir contest "Let the people sing" in London and the Musikförderpreis of the international Ernst-von-Siemens foundation.

Musical highlights include the performance of the Mozart Requiem and the Magnificat of J.S. Bach in the Meistersinger Halle in Nuremberg, the Matthew's passion of J.S. Bach and J.F. Händels Messiah in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt/Main, the Bach Johannes passion in the philharmony of the Gasteig in Munich, a concert tour through France and co-performances with the Windsbacher Knabenchor.

Under Julian Tölle's direction the amadeus choir performed the Berliner Messe of Arvo Pärt with the Georgisches Kammerorchester in Munich and Ingolstadt and Francis Poulenc's Gloria with the Münchner Symphoniker. Nevertheless, a cappella literature between early baroque and present remains the focus of the amadeus choir's work.


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Last changed: 21.07.98