CONCERTS

Neilon. A cappella, not synthetic, but gaudy and colorful. Neilon. These are catchy but sophisticated arrangements, filigree harmony clusters, intimate soundscapes. Neilon sets the mood. Between pop and jazz, with eleven voices and loop station.
At the German Chorfest 2022, the ensemble won first prize in the vocal band category. Neilon has already been coached by well-known scene names like Kim Nazarian (New York Voices), Merel Martens (Pitch Control) and Tobias Hug (Swingles) at vocal festivals all over Europe.

Lose ä mol (Freiburg): Jazz singer and ZMF award winner Neele Pfleiderer and London-based jazz pianist Will Bartlett met at a jam session shortly before the first Lockdown 2020 - there was an immediate and lasting musical spark. Their current program, with modern jazz arrangements of well-known Alemannic songs, text settings by Johann Peter Hebel, among others, and contemporary poets, reflects the love of the
Black Forest nature and the (elective) homeland again.

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The name 4xDelay is our program. Translated from English, it means "four times late". That's how our rehearsal beginnings started in May 2019. In the meantime, of course, we have improved and are mostly on time, but the name has remained. We, that is Daniel Reuter, Sebastian Munsch, Julian Benz and David-Christian Sixt. Out of love for four-part male vocals, three, rather virile youngsters, initially got together to search for the longed-for, fulfilling fourth member. The starting signal is on 1.5.2019, a first private CD with our own recordings took place in 2020. The most recent release is our first single with our own music video (YouTube). Our repertoire includes classical male choir literature from the last centuries, arrangements from our own pen in all styles, including hip-hop, jazz and pop and our own compositions.

The vocal ensemble Herztöne exists since 2019 and is composed of 11 women from Pforzheim and Bretten. We got to know each other at the extra choir of the Theater Pforzheim. The enthusiasm for music and the joy of singing, the vocal background and the desire to perform demanding music were the reason for founding the ensemble. Salome Tendies, conductor and choir director, is the musical director. Our repertoire ranges from classical and musical to pop and film music. The songs are presented acapella or with piano accompaniment. After the forced break in 2020, directly after our first debut concert, we now want to really take off. Through some engagements in the area, such as the Wirtschaftspreis Pforzheim and the Ornamenta Gala, we could already make a name for ourselves in the Pforzheim area.

Corona has been known to pose great challenges to the vocal and choral scene. Despite these obstacles, we took the plunge in February 2022 and founded our band: laulaa, a five-member women's vocal ensemble. We - Mira Hohn, Neele Kilanowski, Johanna Maisel, Josefine Marhofer and Anne-Marie Mücke - found each other at the Berlin University of the Arts and have since been rehearsing intensively every week with great energy and joy. Our steadily growing repertoire - mainly from the jazz/pop area - consists exclusively of pieces arranged for five voices, some of which are also original compositions. Since our foundation we were allowed to experience a year full of musical events and exciting impressions. On this way we were reliably accompanied and supported by Tanja Pannier (Klangbezirk).

The a cappella group LowKey was founded in London in October 2022, when 10 a cappella graduates decided to take the cause more seriously. Members include some of the best college groups in the UK, including ICCA winners "Techtonics," international ICCA finalists "The Bristol Suspensions," "The Rolling Tones" and "Conchords," and Open finalists "Algorhythm." In these competitions, their beatboxer James Dempsey received 3 awards for outstanding vocal percussion.

Under the direction of Emily Pulford and Felix Dickinson, the group is also heavily involved in recording. Emily is currently studying music production and sound engineering at the Abbey Road Institute, and Felix works in the music studio at the Royal College of Music. Together they have received 6 CARA nominations and 1 award for tracks they have produced.

LowKey is the winning group of the 2023 Tobi Hug Scholarship.

Harmonious voices, no instruments - that is the concept of the vocal band Nebensache. Using only their voices, the five singers whisk the audience away to distant lands, provide goosebump moments by creating Nordic soundscapes, and inspire with powerful, wonderfully produced beats. Nebensache's repertoire consists mainly of sophisticated arrangements by heroes of the international a cappella scene such as Rajaton, The Real Group and Pentatonix. They sing about the main things in life: love, friendship, pain and happiness and surprise the audience again and again with different versions of well-known and lesser-known pop songs, jazz classics and folk songs. Highlights of the band's history so far include performances at the renowned Aarhus Vocal Music Festival in Denmark, in the well-known SWR broadcast "Kaffee oder Tee" (Coffee or Tea), and as part of the 300th anniversary of the city of Karlsruhe. In workshops (among others with the Finnish world-class ensemble Rajaton as well as with the well-known vocal coaches Erik Sohn and Felix Powroslo), the group regularly proves that music is more than just a secondary matter for them.

Neilon. A cappella, not synthetic, but gaudy and colorful. Neilon. These are catchy but sophisticated arrangements, filigree harmony clusters, intimate soundscapes. Neilon sets the mood. Between pop and jazz, with eleven voices and loop station.
At the German Chorfest 2022, the ensemble won first prize in the vocal band category. Neilon has already been coached by well-known scene names like Kim Nazarian (New York Voices), Merel Martens (Pitch Control) and Tobias Hug (Swingles) at vocal festivals all over Europe.

Since its founding in 2018, the Cologne-based vocal ensemble Sonah has dedicated itself to creating self-arranged covers from the rock and pop genres.
The young musicians met during their studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where they are currently being coached by Prof. Erik Sohn.
coached. The 6-part formation sings their own concerts as well as on festival stages such as the Voc.Cologne School's Edition or the Chor.com 2021 in Hannover.

Total Vocal is a small group of 6 singers from the project "Klangtastisch" and was founded in 2015 by Dani Kalt. Great hits are rewritten by Total Vocal in dialect and staged in a new way. This is done almost exclusively without instruments and "only" worked with the voices - so a cappella.
Because the voice is an incredible instrument with whose use one can imitate and replace a whole band. Even the drums are implemented as "beatbox" with pure voice. Total Vocal provides with the demanding repertoire and swinging songs for good mood or touches the hearts with ballads that let the audience dream - Total Vocal.

Vocal jazz that simply makes you feel good. That is Jazzaffair Freiburg. Around 20 women sing well-known jazz classics, but also swing, Latin and pop - and have been doing so for over fifteen years.  The repertoire includes songs by Adele or Nina Simone arranged for two soprano and two alto voices. Under the direction of Sebastian Oberlin, a capella pieces are sometimes powerfully dynamic, sometimes soulfully quiet. When the 20 female singers support the groove with body percussion, real female power comes on stage. Jazzaffair Freiburg is a member of tonart Verein Emmendingen, an association for creative musical education, and successfully participated in the 2022 Baden-Württemberg State Choir Competition.

Finest a cappella sound fresh from Hamburg Winterhude. Since 2018, the new choir on the block has been on the road as a modern pop choir in Hamburg and the north and has set out to push the boundaries of the a cappella scene. There are no limits to the joy of experimentation - in the most diverse locations, together with artists of various directions and at the most diverse events, the 20 singers of the new choir on the block fill every room with the rousing sounds of current pop songs and smash hits from the 1990s and 2000s.

The PolyPHonics are a student a cappella ensemble founded by Mathias Schillmöller in 2018 at the Heidelberg University of Education. It currently consists of 30 active singers. The name says it all, as cultural and stylistic diversity, sound adventures and improvisations flow into their repertoire as well as into the various performance formats.

The Swiss Corinne Schmidiger and Mattias Wyss, 1 duo, 2 voices, 4 hands, 4 feet. With that they sing songs from all over the world, improvise in different styles and enrich their songs with a lot of rhythm - alone in pairs. They love and know how to cover songs in their very own groovy way and creative way. With heart and soul they let you see music and hear movement.

Humanophones (France) formed in 2013 to facilitate human and artistic encounters through essentials: body and voice. Self-proclaimed "anatomical concert performers", they navigate on stage between dance, theater and the music of their "body-instruments". The art of this great and award-winning company is characterized by social interaction, poetry and lots of humor.

http://www.humanophones.com/

Tjadke Biallowons (Freiburg) is a freelance performer, actress and speaker and won numerous awards after her studies and first engagements. She is a member of the Freiburg "Compagnie LaPerformance", performs at various major theaters (Basel, Freiburg, Dresden, Berlin) and can be seen on TV in the "Knallerfrauen" (Sat1), in the crime scene "Rebland", in the "Martina Hill Show" and "Die Fallers", and can be heard as a narrator on arte and SWR.

Merel Martens (Netherlands) graduated in 2015 from the Royal Academy of Music (DK) with top marks and a Master in Vocal Leadership. She is a full-time choir director, arranger, teacher and vocal coach. She is particularly concerned with creating a positive energy flow in rehearsals and making sure that all participants feel safe and included.

The vocal quartet "Viersam" has existed for four years. The group meets regularly for rehearsals and has rehearsed a varied repertoire of pieces from pop and folk to classical music. Many of the arrangements are by Wolfgang Schmid. What drives them is the joy of singing together.

Soprano: Carola Steiert, Alto: Stefanie Janz, Tenor: Claudius Heitz, Bass: Wolfgang Schmid

The playful a cappella quartet MAYBEBOP has been setting standards in German entertainment for almost 20 years with its numerous stage programs. MAYBEBOP sends small and large ears on a journey into ever new musical worlds. In doing so, the band, recently named "Group of the Decade", remains true to itself by not taking itself seriously. And if it does, it touches all the more.

Accordion in orchestra formation? Is that possible? And if so, how? The musicians of the Accordion Club Kirchzarten are often asked this question. After all, the accordion as an instrument is mainly known in a folk context and rather as a solo instrument. Therefore we would like to give you an insight into how an accordion orchestra works. Currently, 23 active musicians between the ages of 14 and 64 play in the main orchestra of the Accordion Club Kirchzarten.

Latvian Voices (Latvia) combines their cultural heritage - Latvian folk songs - and the world-famous Latvian choral sound, respectfully blended with contemporary a cappella and world music. Since 2009, they have performed acoustically and amplified in more than 35 countries worldwide. Besides concerts, they share their experience in a cappella workshops and founded the Latvian Voices A Cappella Festival in Valmiera.

MAYBEBOP (Hannover, Hamburg, Berlin and Weimar) - these are four fundamentally different, crazy and lovable guys who give a cappella concerts all over the German-speaking countries. The repertoire consists mostly of German jazz/rock/pop songs. MAYBEBOP, that are: Christoph Hiller ("Tieftöner"), Jan Bürger (countertenor), Lukas Teske (beatboxing) and Oliver Gies (baritone and songwriter).

Maggie Horrer, who lives in Freiburg, studied jazz singing in Freiburg and Lucerne and graduated with a master's degree in music education. She has been teaching singing in Fribourg since 2006. As a singer, Maggie is on tour with the Jazzchor Freiburg, among others. Children know her warm voice from the Lauschelieder CDs.

Julian Knörzer (Freiburg) is a studied school musician, choir director (MH Freiburg, RAMA Vocal Center Aalborg) and co-founder of the Black Forest Voices Festival. As a beatboxer, singer, choir director and arranger he is active in the German vocal scene and internationally active as a lecturer. With his a cappella band UNDUZO and the beatbox duo Acoustic Instinct, he has been touring the German-speaking countries since 2005.

The six vocal artists turn the listening habits of the a cappella genre upside down. With their powerful and daring mixture of pop, jazz, classical and world music, they thrill audiences at concerts across Europe and Asia. They explore what the human voice is capable of and take you into a paradise of timbres, onomatopoeia and vocal percussion.

The children's and youth choir has existed as part of the parish community of St. Gallus in Kirchzarten for over 50 years and with 6 choirmasters. The name "Rainbow" was given by the choir members more than 20 years ago as a sign of a colorful and open community. The rainbow stands not only for God's love and closeness, but also (especially in today's society) for openness to the world and tolerance. In this spirit, everyone is welcome - currently they sing together at the age of 6 to 18 years under the direction of Hannah Janz.

Mixed voices. Mixed ages. Mixed backgrounds. One passion. That's MAZE, the groovy, innovative Dutch XL a cappella family of 22 talented singers. Their innovative style and pop-rock energy jumps off the stage and invites you to join in!

Hartmut and the Hit Machine (Berlin), the two-headed loop monster with Lukas, studied jazz and pop singer, known as singer with MAYBEBOP, and Patrick, also studied jazz and pop singer with ONAIR, replace a complete band with their voices and a loop station. After 24 years together, the duo says goodbye - once again - to the stage.