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include a unique tone, breath-taking homogene-
ity, musical authenticity, and a good dose of charm
and humour. Amarcord performs a vast and highly
diverse repertoire of music, from medieval plain-
song to madrigals and Renaissance masses, to
compositions and cycles of works of the European
Romantic period and the 20
th
century, arrange-
ments of cappella folksongs collected from all
over the world, all the way to soul and jazz charts.
Alongside the Gewandhaus Orchestra and St
Thomas’s Boys Choir,Amarcord is now one of the
leading representatives of Leipzig’s music scene in
Germany and abroad. Amarcord regularly appears
at important music festivals. Numerous concert
tours have taken the singers to more than 50 coun-
tries and nearly every corner of the globe. In coop-
eration with the Goethe Institute, the ensemble has
made guest appearances in Australia, Southeast
Asia, the Near East, Russia and Central America.
Amarcord has won prizes at many international
competitions, such as Tolosa in Spain, Tampere in
Finland and Pohlheim in Germany, as well as the
1st Choir Olympiad in the Austrian city of Linz.
In 2002, the ensemble won the German Music
Competition, having joined the ranks of the BA
KJK (the cream of young musicians singled out
by the German Music Council for special support)
two years beforehand. In 2004, Amarcord became
the first group of singers to be awarded the En-
semble Prize at the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Festival. Attending master classes with the King’s
Singers and the Hilliard Ensemble has given Am-
arcord valuable stimulus over the years.
Numerous CD recordings document impressively
the many facets of Amarcord’s repertoire. The CD
Zu S. Thomas
with two Gregorian Masses from
the Thomas Gradual of St Thomas’s Church Leip-
zig won the International Classical Music Award
(ICMA) in 2013. In 2012, they were awarded their
secondECHOKlassik (Ensemble of the year/vocal).
Released in 2009, the CD
Rastlose Liebe
(Restless
Love) received the ECHO Klassik Award, the Lux-
embourgian Supersonic Award and was nominated
for theMIDEMClassicalAward. This CD, like their
previous CDs –
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
(Now come, saviour of the gentiles),
Incessament
and
Hear the voice
– won the ContemporaryACap-
pella Recording Award, the “a-cappella-Oscar”. In
February 2010, Amarcord released its first CD pro-
duction with an orchestral work: the reconstructed
version of Johann Sebastian Bach’s
St. Mark Pas-
sion
, performed together with Dominique Horwitz
and the Kölner Akademie. Together with Cappella
Sagittariana Dresden two CDs have been released
featuring the works of Heinrich Schütz and his con-
temporaries. Their CD of the J.S. Bach motets with
the Lautten Compagney Berlin was released on the
SONY/dhm label in 2012.
Yevgeny Sudbin / piano
Yevgeny Sudbin has been hailed by The Telegraph
as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the
21
st
century”. In the midst of a 7-year and 14-al-
bum collaboration with BIS Records, all of Yevg-
eny’s recordings have met with critical acclaim
and are regularly featured as CD of the Month
by BBC Music Magazine or Editor’s Choice by
Gramophone. His Scriabin recording was awarded
CD of the Year by The Telegraph and received the
MIDEM Classical Award for Best Solo Instru-
ment Recording at Cannes. It was described by
Gramophone as “a disc in a million” while the In-
ternational Record Review stated that Yevgeny’s
Rachmaninov recording “confirms him as one of
the most important pianistic talents of our time”.
Yevgeny performs regularly inmany of theworld’s
finest venues and concert series, both in recital and
with orchestra, including Tonhalle Zurich, Royal
Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore
Hall in London; Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Avery Fisher Hall in New York and Davies Sym-
phony Hall in San Francisco. Recent engagements
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