ChoralWiki:Collegium Vocale di Crema - Italy

Name of Choral ensemble: Collegium Vocale di Crema - Italy

Contact Person: Giampiero Innocente ([1])

Date added: 2002-04-02

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Description The Collegium Vocale was founded in 1994 by the will of its director Giampiero Innocente, and a group of young music lovers of Crema. Since its foundation, the choice of repertoire is focused on sacred music in an attempt to bring the listener to relive the emotions and meanings of the ancient liturgies. The Collegium Vocale has made numerous executions in northern Italy, collaborating with artists of music and theater. In the autumn of 1998 was born the Section of Gregorian Chant. In January 2000, the Collegium Vocale has made for Swiss television the soundtrack of a film dedicated to the figure of S. Francis. From 2003 began the recovery of scores of German music of the Nineteenth century. By this work was recorded the first CD devoted to Robert Führer in 2004 with a series of concerts sponsored by the German Consulate in Milan. In 2005 the Orchestra was founded and the repertoire focuses on music finally seven-nineteenth century. In March 2005, the Vatican Radio has dedicated an entire program to CD recorded by Collegium Vocale. In June 2005, the Collegium Vocale hosted the choir of Royal Holloway University of London. In December 2005, the Collegium has been included in the musical "Crown of Advent", sponsored by the City of Milan, with a performance at the Basilica of San Marco. On 7 May 2006, the Collegium Vocale di Crema performed the Mass KV 259 by Mozart in the Karlskirche in Vienna, as part of Mozart year. In 2006 the group hosted the Ensemble “Gombert" of Melbourne. In June 2007, the Collegium held a successful tour of three concerts in Cambridge, England and the week following the Robinson College Choir of Cambridge has been a guest of Collegium Vocale for a tour in Lombardy. After a series of concerts in the autumn of 2007, including a performance in the Cathedral of Bressanone and the third consecutive performance at the Basilica of San Marco in Milan, was recorded the second CD entitled "laetitiae Dies" with music by Fuhrer, Rosetti and Moretti. In September 2008, the Collegium Vocale di Crema opened with a concert the restoration of the Church of San Giacomo Maggiore in Cream and in autumn of that year was performed for the second time in the modern era, the Mass in C major by Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792). In 2009, the Collegium Vocale di Crema hosts the Pembroke College, Oxford (June) and in autumn will be performed a concert entirely devoted to Felix Mendelssohn in the year of the centenary.