VoicesInTime from München

Music: Classical-Jazz Crossover

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81375 München



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The Rock & Jazz Choir VoicesInTime from Munich, founded in 1996 by Stefan Kalmer, became the first prize winner in the category "Jazz Vocal et cetera a cappella" at the German Choir Competition in 2006. This was followed by invitations to choir festivals in South Korea and Cuba in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.

What began as a musical project quickly evolved into an internationally recognized a cappella choir. After initial performances in Munich, concerts followed in Germany and across Europe. Workshops with international jazz greats from the a cappella scene have accompanied the choir's development ever since.

The repertoire is remarkably diverse. VoicesInTime succeeds in captivating its audience with a particularly versatile and varied program. The repertoire includes not only jazz and a cappella standards but also crossover compositions based on texts by Shakespeare, Goethe, and Gernhard, as well as cover versions ranging from Rammstein to Stevie Wonder.

VoicesInTime feels at home in jazz clubs, on festival stages, and in concert halls alike. In 2007, VoicesInTime was invited to the "America Cantat V" festival in Havana, Cuba. Further concert tours brought the choir to Slovenia, Austria, the Netherlands, and South Korea. VoicesInTime participated for the fourth time in the Jazz Choir Festival "meervocal" in Wunstorf and has been a regular guest at the largest German a cappella festival "Vokal Total" in Munich since 1999.

The choir's consistent dedication has been rewarded with numerous awards both nationally and internationally, including the "Ward Swingle Award" in Graz in 2004.

Stefan Kalmer studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where he later taught popular music didactics. Today, he teaches school ensemble practice and leads the Jazz & Pop Choir there. He has also conducted workshops and teaching assignments at the music universities of Hanover, Regensburg, and Würzburg. He works as a music teacher in Munich and performs as a violinist in various jazz and rock bands. For over a decade, he was a member of the via-nova-chor Munich and is the founder and musical director of the Rock & Jazz Choir VoicesInTime. Stefan Kalmer regularly leads workshops on rock, jazz, and crossover in the choir and works as a juror, arranger, composer, and publisher of choral music (www.kalmer.de)


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