CHORUS SINE NOMINE, Vienna Johannes Hiemetsberger, director Founded in 1991 by Johannes Hiemetsberger, CHORUS SINE NOMINE is one of Austria's leading vocal ensembles. They perform at well-known festivals all over the world. The choir has won numerous first prizes at eminent choir competitions (EBU competition 'Let the Peoples sing', Choir Competition Spittal an der Drau, Florilege Vocal de Tours). Several CDs have also been released, which show the quality and importance of CHORUS SINE NOMINE's utmost concern: cultivating a cappella music in all its variety. CHORUS SINE NOMINE also launches unconventional a cappella concert projects such as 'Cry', 'Happy Birthday', 'The Power of Heaven' and 'tuuli' (which won a special prize for stage projects). Contemporary music is very important to this choir, which is why they regularly commission works from contemporary composers such as Wolfgang Sauseng or J. Peter Koene and Gunnar Eriksson. With conductors like Martin Haselboeck, Andres Orozco-Estrada, HK Gruber, Jordi Savall, Gidon Kremer, Trevor Pinnock and orchestras like Wiener Akademie, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Ensemble Prisma Wien, Ensemble Tonus, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, RSO Wien, Tonkuenstlerorchester Niederoesterreich, Ensemble Sarband/Vladimir Ivanoff, the pianists Eduard und Johannes Kutrowatz and Roger Vignoles, CHORUS SINE NOMINE also implements programmes for choir and orchestra of great stylistic variety, having performed, among others, Emilio de' Cavalieri's 'Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo', Monteverdi's 'Vespro della beata vergine', J.S. Bach's biggerst compositions, Bernstein's 'Mass', Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess', Reich's 'Desert Music' or Gubaidulina's 'Sonnengesang' and 'Tagtraeume.Nachtwache', a 'Schubertiade' that was created for Jeunesse. In 2017, CHORUS SINE NOMINE gave their a capella-debut in the Elbe Philharmonic Hall and were invited to Singapore. In 2019, CHORUS SINE NOMINE will perform Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The Canticle of the Sun” in the Konzerthaus, Vienna. http://www.chorussinenomine.at http://www.facebook.com/chorussinenomine