Schola Cantorum Leipzig and MKA Chorale in Joint Concert

On Wednesday, April 29 music lovers will be able to experience a remarkable joint concert with The Montclair Kimberley Academy Upper School Chorale and the renowned Schola Cantorum Leipzig, under the direction of Philipp Amelung.

Schola Cantorum Leipzig consists of 35 female singers, primarily young students, ages 12-18, who specialize in a cappella music for treble voices from medieval times to the present.  The choir has successfully competed in international choir competitions, performed throughout the world, and regularly participated in the famous Leipzig Bach Festival. Philipp Amelung, the choir’s Artistic Director since 2005, has worked as the voice trainer for the Munich Motet Choir, as interim conductor of the Munich Bach Choir from 2001-2005, and has conducted the Georgian Chamber Orchestra, the Karlsbad Symphony Orchestra, the Affetti instrumentali, the Baroque Orchestra La Banda and the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Following a meeting with MKA Music Director and composer Randall Svane in Leipzig in 2007, Amelung visited and worked with MKA’s Upper School Chorale last spring, when plans for this further collaboration were made.  Members of the Schola Cantorum will be staying with MKA families as they prepare a joint concert program with the MKA Upper School Chorale for April 29.  After performing alone, the choir will be joined by the MKA singers in a performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem with orchestra.  Philipp Amelung will be the baritone soloist and Randall Svane will conduct.  “The Choir is absolutely amazing,” notes Svane, “and we will experience a fascinating musical and cultural exchange with the girls.”

The concert will take place at 8:00 p.m. in the Weiss Auditorium at the MKA Upper School, 6 Lloyd Road, Montclair.  The concert is free of charge and open to the public.   For more information, contact Randall Svane at 973-842-2847 or rsvane@mka.org.