The Baroque choir Collegium Choro Musici Riga was founded in late 2010. Its creation was inspired by the successful performance of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine on November 7, 2010, in Riga. It was then that Māris Kupčs, the artistic director of the project, decided to contact the most promising musicians and encourage them to form a new ensemble that would specialize in singing Renaissance, Baroque and Classical compositions and would collaborate with the already existing Baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum Riga.
Repertory
The choir's repertoire includes the most popular baroque compositions (G.F. Handel Brockes passion, J.S. Bach St. Luke Passion, A. Stradella L'Anime del Purgatorio, M.R. de Lalande opera Les Fontaines de Versailles, C. Monteverdi Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi) and compositions that have been created in the historic Latvian territory (J.V. Meder St. Matthew Passion, J.A. Hiller Ta Simtaa Dzeesma (100. psalm), J. T. Perle cantata 98.psalm) and many others.
See also: http://www.earlymusic.lv/Earlymusic_engl/Repertoire.html
Records
"Music in Riga 1570-1800", Rīgas Senās Mūzikas centrs, 2012
Recent Concerts
Year of foundation
2010
Genres
Classical, Early Music
Instrument types
Voice
Members
The choir's singers are studying to become professional musicians that have begun to thoroughly explore the performance traditions of the Baroque and have decided to turn to the historically informed performance practice.
Artistic director
Māris Kupčs
Country
Latvia
City
Rīga
zip code
LV-1050
Email(s)
Street Address
Merķeļa 13
Mobile phone(s)
37125428446
