Knabenchor St Petersburg | en

The Tölzer Knabenchor (the Tölz Boys' Choir) was founded in 1956 in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany. Since 1970, the choir has maintained two separate studios, in Bad Tölz and in Munich-Solln. Boys accepted to the choir are trained rigorously in the German classical tradition. The Knabenchor's repertoire features baroque oratorios and other performances of early music, many of which have been preserved in high-quality recordings. Among these are the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte (Little Sacred Concertos) of Heinrich Schütz, recorded between 1987 and 1990 under the baton of Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden. The various ensembles of the Tölzer Knabenchor give nearly 240 concerts...

At the same time in the year of 2001 Russian famous ska punk band Spitfire started a spinoff project St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review in collaboration with the members of St.Petersburg-based afro-caribbean-oriented band Markscheider Kunst. The initial idea was to make a single-show program comprised mostly of jazz standards such as "Sidewinder", "Corcovado", "Four" and original ska tunes ("St. Thomas", "Man in the street") to perform at Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF) in April '01. The line-up of this band included the baritone-sax and percussion players as well as all members of Spitfire. The show gained much interest and the band...