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Cappella Catharinae is the oldest, biggest and most senior choir in the Katarina parish in Stockholm. The choir was founded in 1969 and has an extensive and vital repertoire, including the great classical masters, Swedish traditional choir lyrics and modern composers such as Tomas Jennefelt and Johannes Johansson. Look further below.
Besides performing at regular church services, the choir regularly gives public concerts, as well as for companies that wish to provide an activity for their clients and staff. Look into our calendar for upcoming events. Send an e-mail to marknad@cappella.se if you want to get in touch in concert matters. For other matters please e-mail ordf@cappella.se
From time to time we also make longer concert trips and are happy to connect with choirs in other parts of the world. So far we have visited countries in Europe, North America, South East Asia and Africa. We look forward to making further trips. The next trip will be to South Korea in May 2014. Our conductorHans Vainikainen is one of the choir leaders and organists in the parish, who has lead the choir since 2007. A successful musician and conductor, he develops the music into new dimensions. In spite of his youth, he was selected for the Swedish Conductors’ Award in 2005.
Besides Cappella Catharinae, Hans Vainikainen is also in charge of Katarina Kammarkör, which is a chamber choir in the parish, as well as the Katarina Girls’ Choir, with girls in their teens, who highly qualified often move on to the other choirs in the parish. The goal is to move and to touch… Says Hans Vainikainen: My experience is that the common denominator of all music groups is an urge to develop. A chorus is unusual in being a totally flat structure, where the singers sit next to each other - not in front or behind! Each singer is, so to speak, both his or her own boss and a piece in a large puzzle.
My primary task as conductor is to continuously highlight precisely these two aspects, i.e. to encourage personal initiatives, motivation and development, while reminding all singers that their mindset should be on the final product - the sound! With all of this in place, the focus will be on the music, without fear of making mistakes or technical obstacles. Then it is almost impossible not to reach the audience, irrespective of repertoire or context. And that’s the goal of what we do - to move and to touch! Calendar2015 Katarina Church, 31 December, at 15, J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratory part IV-VI Stockholm Concert Hall, 15 October at 19 and 17 October at 15, Tonsättarfestival Systrarna Boulanger Folkoperan, 23, 24 October, W.A. Mozart, Requiem Lids Church, 1 augusti, Summer concert Liljevalchs konsthall, 6 June. Concert with Bach theme Katarina Church, 31 maj, Katarina Church, 2 June, Feast of the Flowers (traditional family gathering with all choirs in the parish celebrating the arrival or summer) Stockholm Concert Hall, 8 June at 20 and 9 June at 15, Sagas Orchestral Fantasy Music Katarina Church, 19, 23 april, Vår kyrka brann... choir concert Katarina Church, 21, 22 mars, G. Mahler, Symfoni nr 3
2014 Katarina Church, 31 December, at 15, J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratory part IV-VI Katarina kyrka, 2 November at 16, J. Brahms, Ein deutsches requiem Uppsala Cathedral, 5 September at 18:30, G. Mahler,Symphony No. 2 Lid Church, 10 August, Summer concert Katarina Church, 25 May, Feast of the Flowers Seoul, South Korea, 24 april - 3 may, tour. Read more. Katarina kyrka, 9 april, kl 16, Cappella sings a cappella
2013
Katarina Church, 31 December, at 15:00, J.S. Bach, Christmas Oratory part IV-VI Katarina Church, 2 June, Feast of the Flowers (traditional family gathering with all choirs in the parish celebrating the arrival or summer) Katarina Church, 21 April, B. Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb, Saint Nicolas Katarina Church, 23, 24 March, G. Mahler,Symphony No. 2
2012
2011
Lars Erik Larsson: Förklädd Gud (Disguised God) Mahler: Symphony no. 8 Mozart: Requiem
Stockholm Concert Hall Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratory, St Matthew Passion, Mass in b minor Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, An die Freude Johannes Brahms: Requiem Gabriel Fauré: Requiem Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert Georg Friedrich Handel: Messiah, Saul Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem Otto Olsson, Latin Hymns and others Sergei Rachmaninov: St Mary vesper Guiseppi Verdi: Requiem
Lyrical Swedish choir works by Hugo Alvén, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Ture Rangström, Johannes Johansson and poems by Tomas Tranströmers Sponsor concertsIn addition to the regular choir programme, we also arrange tailored company concerts in the Katarina Church. These are often provided by the companies for their customers before Christmas, but may also be part of a company anniversary. If desired, we also invite guest artists. Several companies provide annual Christmas concerts that are highly appreciated by their customers as well as their staff. These sponsor concerts include companies like Avanza, SEB, OMX, Carat, Vodaphone and Telenor. Some of the artists we have worked with are Carola, Peter Jöback, Helen Sjöholm and Louise Hoffsten. Over the years, Cappella Catharinae has undertaken a long series of concert trips in all directions on the Globe, domestically as well as to other continents. In general, we make a trip every second year, trips that in the main are financed via our sponsor concerts. Members in the choir take care of all practical arrangements related to the trips. | |
| 2014 | Seoul, South Korea, in co-operation with the Swedish Embassy in Seoul and the South Korean Embassy in Stockholm |
| 2011 | France on invitation from the Swedish Embassy in Paris |
| 2011 | Tour in the Swedish province of Dalcarlia |
| 2010 | France, with concerts in Nice and Valberg |
| 2006 | South Africa, where we sang in Cape Town, Simonstown, Franschhoek and in the Khayelitsha township |
| 2003 | Vietnam, with concerts in Hanoi and Halong Bay |
| 2001 | Austria, with concerts in Vienna, Salzburg and in the charming little village St. Wolfgang |
| 1999 | Italy, with concerts in Florence, Vallegio, Siena and Rome |
| 1997 | USA, where we sang in many different churches during a coach through the ‘Swedish’ districts between Chicago and Minneapolis |
| 1995 | England, with concerts in London and Nutfield |
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From time to time we travel in Sweden as well, recently paying visits to the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, to the city of Falun in central Sweden and we regularly give summer concerts in Lid Church in Södermanland, in southeast Sweden. We have some particularly fond memories of these concerts:At the Opera in Hanoi we performed together with the Hanoi Opera Choir and Orchestra, singing Lars-Erik Larsson’s Förklädd Gud (Disguised God) with the Opera Choir attempting to sing in Swedish, while we tried singing in Vietnamese in some of their special songs.
Music and PicturesGet a taste of our sound under the tab Lyssna and find pictures from concerts and rehersals under the tab Bilder. | |
