Southern Jutland Girls´ Choir, Denmark

Curriculum

Southern Jutland Girls´ Choir was founded in 1994. Today the choir consists of 100 girls aged 7 to 20 years. The choir is divided in three groups: a prep choir (7-9 years of age), a children´s choir (9-12 years) and a concert choir (12-20 years).

The Concert Choir works on a very high artistic level and every year it performs a great variety of both sacred and secular concerts. The repertoire consists of traditional Scandinavian songs and choral music by composers like Carl Nielsen and Edward Grieg and European choral music by composers like Brahms, Verdi, Kodaly and others. The choir also performs choral jazz and pop music as well as contemporary music.

In April 2007 the Concert Choir won the Danish national championship for choirs of equal voices with 99 points out of 100.

In June 2004 and July 2007 the Concert Choir performed in front of H. M. Queen Margrethe and

H. R. H. Prince Henrik for which performances the choir was highly praised.

The choir makes concerts all over Denmark and has performed also in Stavanger (Norway), Vienna (Austria), Flensburg (Germany) and Florida (USA). In 2006 the choir performed in two operas with the National Opera of Jutland.

In December 2006 the choir released its first CD.

In July 2008 the concert choir participated in the World Choir Games in Graz (Austria) – a choir competition for the best choirs of the world. The choir qualified to the final round at which it obtained a silver medal.

Mette Rasmussen (born 1969) has been artistic leader of Southern Jutland Girls´ Choir since 1997. She is a skilled musicologist and graduated in 1996 from the University of Århus. She is a singer herself and has joined a great variety of semi-professional choirs in Denmark and abroad. When not conducting the choir, she teaches music and English at the senior high school of Soenderborg.

Katrine Thygesen (born 1973) is the conductor of the prep choir and the children´s choir. She is a skilled violin player, educated at the music academy of Hamburg, Germany. Apart from conducting the choirs, she teaches violin and singing at Soenderborg Music School.