Want to join us?

Would you like to sing famous choir repertoires? With good soloists? Good orchestras? In the most prestigious concert halls?

Then you might want to join Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam. Come and attend one of our rehearsals. These are held on monday evenings from 20.00 to 22.30 in the church of the 'Doopsgezinde Gemeente' (Singel 452, downtown Amsterdam, near the Flower market). There is also a once-a-month group rehearsal on mondays from 19.00 to 20.00 for each voice section, which also focusses on technique. On the days preceeding a concert, there are extra piano and orchestra rehearsals.

If you like the choir and the programme, you can make an appointment for an audition (tel. 06 4446 2640). The result is communicated to you directly after the audition. 

Summary

The  Choir's  History


Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam is a concert choir which was founded more than 175 years ago. In its illustrious past, Toonkunst had strong ties with the renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra and contributed to productions led by great conductors such as Willem Mengelberg, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Eugen Jochum, Eduard van Beinum and Bernard Haitink.

Since the early 1970’s, Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam has performed annually with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with the resident conductors Anton Kersjes and Hartmut Haenchen as well as many guest conductors such as Ken-ichiro Kobayashi, Jean Fournet and Sir Yehudi Menuhin. Other concerts were given with other major Dutch orchestras.

The Choir's Repertoire

 
Toonkunst's repertoire includes masterpieces such as J.S. Bach's Passions and High Mass, Requiems by Mozart, Verdi, Brahms and Bruckner, the Stabat Mater and the Mass in D by Dvořák, as well as the chorus parts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Szymanovski's Third, Liszt's Dante and Faust Symphony plus the Second, Third and Eighth Symphonies by Mahler.

The choir also sings modern works such as Kodály's and Diepenbrock's Te Deum and both Hendrik Andriessen's Te Deums. In 2002, Toonkunst successfully combined its annual performance of St Matthew's Passion with Frank Martin's Golgotha. In 2003, it brought Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms together with Szymanovsky's Stabat Mater. In 2005, the choir celebrated its 175th year with "Tenebrae" (Darkness), a new composition by Hans Kox, written especially for Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam. 

Upcoming events

 
On February 24th 2012 Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam will perform Via Crucis (F.Liszt) in De Duif in Amsterdam.
 

Contact us

 
For more information please contact:
Secretariaat Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Postbus 17601
1001 JM Amsterdam
Telephone: 06 2928 2112
E-mail: secretariaat@toonkunstkoor.nl