Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir was founded in 1924 by Mogens Wöldike to perform choral music written for boys' and men's voices from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. In 1929 the Copenhagen City Council established a Choir School for the boys, the present Sankt Annæ Gymnasium (St. Anne's Gymnasium). Until 1959 Copenhagen Boys' Choir was permanently connected with Christiansborg Slotskirke (The Chapel of Chistiansborg Castle), but since then the choir has throughout the main season been giving regular concerts every Friday evening in Copenhagen Cathedral, and the boys have also been singing at High Mass and Vespers in the Cathedral. With a comprehensive repertoire ranging from commissioned works by the leading composers of our time to the earliest polyphony the choir has over the years gained a reputation for being one of the finest of its type and it has given concerts in all parts of the world. The choir has also taken part in radio and television productions both in Denmark and in other countries.

 

 

 

 

Conductor: Ebbe Munk

Since 1991 Ebbe Munk has been chief conductor of the COPENHAGEN ROYAL CHAPEL CHOIR and choirmaster of the Copenhagen Cathedral.

In 1986 he founded the Chamber Choir VOX DANICA which specialised in contemporary Nordic music and in 1991 won the first prize in Concours Internationales de Chant Chorale in France.

From 1982 until 1991 he was conductor of Sankt Annæ Youth Choir.

With Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir he has conducted the major choral repertoire together with leading Danish orchestras, f.ex. Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra and Concerto Copenhagen aswell as with baroque ensembles such as Dufay Collective (London), Oxford Philomusica and Ensemble Lascaris (Nice).

Ebbe Munk has been touring with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir in all parts of the world – at leading international festivals as well as in concert halls and in cathedrals such as Sydney OperaHouse, Beijing Concert Hall, Cathedrale Notre Dame (Paris), Washington National Cathedral, Hong Kong Centre of the Performing arts, Sala Saô Paolo and Teatre Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Ebbe Munk has been conducting and jury-member at several choir seminars in Denmark and abroad – in the autumn of 1999 at Princeton University’s North America Conference for Choral Conductors, and he is since 2002 artistic counsellor of the Féderation des Choeurs de l’Únion in Bruxelles. Also in 2002 he received a Grammy in Danish Music Awards for his recording of Buxtehude´s Cantatas together with Dufay Collective, London and the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir. Together with the CRCC Ebbe Munk was honoured in Paris by 1'Institut de FranceAcadémie des Beaux-Arts with the Prix Chant choral Liliane Bettencourt.

 

 

Program:
1. Blazhenni, Jázhe Izbrál 
2. Alle Welt
3. Piano 
4. VenitePopul
5. Laudate Dominum
6. Ständchen
7. Sure on this Shining Night

 

- Intermission -

1. Niels W Gade: Sunrise
2. Swedish Folk tune-The Season of Flowers
3. HansHansen-The Wonder of Spring
4. HugoAlfven-Och jungfrun hon går i ringen
5. EdvardGrieg: Spring
6. Carl Nielsen: Midsummer Nights
7. PovlSchierbeck-Born in Denmark
8. Danish Folk Tune-Silence in the woods
9. Carl Nielsen-Lullaby
10. Niels W Gade-At Sunset
11. On the wings of song
12. Auld Lang Syne