Music Summer Neustift: Choir Concert Choir ProSono

MODERN VOICES

PERFORMERS:

VOCAL ENSEMBLE PROSONO

JAKOB SEIWALD (Choral and Musical Director)

LEA GRAF (Repetitor)

Admission: voluntary donations welcome

Program: The performance will feature modern choral music in the style of "Voces8", the famous English vocal ensemble

This will be presented by the vocal ensemble ProSono under the direction of Jakob Seiwald.

In January 2024, the vocal ensemble ProSono was newly founded. With the experienced and proven choir director Jakob Seiwald, selected literature for vocal ensemble will be performed in appealing and high-quality concerts. The range includes early music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods up to modernity and the avant-garde style. The beauty of the harmonious ensemble sound and the extensive possibilities of highly demanding literature are the focus during the preparation and performances.

Jakob Seiwald studied choral and ensemble conducting at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and concert harp as well as singing at the Mozarteum Salzburg/Innsbruck. The young conductor/choir director/music director successfully completed his most recent studies in January 2024 and has been highly active for several years in both the national and international art scene as a musician and musical director.

Seiwald's musical roots can be found among others with the Wiltener Sängerknaben, where he sang as a boy (later as a male voice) for 14 years as a soloist, gaining extensive stage and opera experience in Europe and Asia. In addition to his instrumental training at the music school in the fields of concert harp and organ, Jakob Seiwald conducted his first choir at the age of 17. Over more than 7 years of motivated musical work, he developed this choir into a remarkable ensemble. In the meantime, Seiwald led 3 choirs for years and founded the orchestra “Camerata Musica Innsbruck” at the end of 2021, with which he has already successfully concerted several times in Austria.

The Tyrolean has been very active as assistant conductor with the University Orchestra Innsbruck (symphonic orchestra) at Leopold Franzens University since 2020. In addition, he has been leading the wind orchestra of the Stadtmusik Landeck-Perjen since 2022 and since the beginning of 2024, he has also taken over the wind orchestra of the music band Matrei am Brenner.

With the new founding of the vocal ensemble ProSono, Seiwald is exploring new paths with very good singers, some of whom are professional singers. Jakob Seiwald also gives recitals and is active as a concert harpist and singer. Thus, he is also in great demand as a speaker at various seminars and as a guest conductor and director.