Kühnův dětský sbor - Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir

Performance Programmes Offer

The Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir offers to perform various types of concert programs, whether in the form of an individual performance or a concert tour, or as a part of wider programme framework, musical projects or festivals.

Spiritual music programmes

Renaissance and Baroque concertos and a capellas
Jakob Arcadelt: Ave Maria - Jakob Handl-Gallus: Pueri concinite - Hans Leo Hassler: Cantate Domino - Orlando di Lasso: Verbum caro, Eripe me – Antonio Lotti: Vere languores - Claudio Monteverdi: Ave MariaBonus est Dominus – Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria, Duo Seraphim, Una hora

Classicism and Romanticism (a capella, or with the piano or organ accompaniment)
Karel Blažej Kopřiva: Salve Regina - W. A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, Laudate Dominum -Josef Mysliveček: Salve Regina - Johannes Brahms: Ave Maria - Gustav Fauré: Ave verum, Maria, mater gratiae - Felix Mendelssohn - Bartholdy: Laudate pueri -Camille Saint - Saëns: Ave verum corpus - Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, Psalm 23.

Other spiritual compositions by Czech and foreign composers
(a capella, or with the piano or organ accompaniment)
Leonard Bernstein: Gloria tibi - Antonín Dvořák: Ave Maria, O sanctissima - Petr Eben: De angelis, De Spiritu Sancto, Missa adventus et quadragesimae - Jan Hanuš: Magnificat - Ivan Kurz: Prosby - Zoltán Kodály: Ave Maria, Psalm 150 - Zdeněk Lukáš: Missa brevis, Pater noster - Jan Málek: Cantica Davidis – Arvo Pärt: Zwei Beter - Francis Poulenc: Ave verum corpus - Jiří Teml: Gloria

Spiritual concertos with the accompaniment of a strings quartet
Gabriel Fauré: Messe basse - Charles Gounod: Messe breve - Ivan Kurz: Stabat mater, Veni, sancte spiritus - Antonio Lotti: Laudate pueri - Josef Mysliveček: Salve Regina - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat mater - Jiří Teml: Psalm 136

Spiritual concert with the accompaniment of a orchestra
Jan Klusák: Small Morning Mass - Ivan Kurz: Missa bohemica – Francis Poulenc: Litanie a la Vierge Nore - Einojuhani Rautavaara: Lapsimessu (Children’s’ Mass) for sopranos, altos and a strings quartet - Jan Křtitel Vaňhal: Stabat mater

Secular Music programmes (a selection)

Antonín Dvořák: Moravian Duets - Petr Eben: Twigs in Leaf - J.B.Foerster: Three Children’s Choruses for Childrens’ Choirs and Piano, The Well, the Song – Jan Hanuš: Dream Songs, Czech Year - Zdeněk Lukáš: The Wreath, Kravarky – Otmar Mácha: Moravian Folk Songs, Silesian Folk Songs, Hymns for children’s choir, organ and timpani – Bohuslav Martinů: The Opening of the Wells, Czech Nursery Rhymes - Josef Mysliveček: Nocturno – Bedřich Smetana: Three Choir Songs - Zdeněk Šesták: As the Sun Went up, Annunciation of Spring - Jiří Teml: Six Songs from the Well for Children’s Choirs, Violin and Percussions - Jan Kř. Vaňhal: Children’s Songs

Christmas Music Programmes

Renaissance and baroque Christmas Songs
Jakob Handl-Gallus, Michael Praetorius, Jan Campanus Vodňanský, Adam Michna from Otradovice Pastorals of Old Czech Masters (J. J. Ryba,F. Doubravský,J. I. Linek aj.) Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols for children’s choir, harp or piano - J. F. Fischer: He Was Born.

Christmas Songs for Children’s Choir and Harp
Ivan Kurz: Christmas Songs and Carols for children’s choirs, a capella - Jiří Teml: Carol Singers, Gloria in excelsis Deo for children’s choir accompanied by a harp, The Most Glorious Day Came (adapted hymn-book songs from the Royal Chapel of Songs and Music for children’s choir and brass-wind quartet) - Luboš Sluka: Waiting for Baby Jesus for children’s choir, clarinet and organ - Jan Seidel: Bethlehem Songs for children’s choir and wind instrument quartet

Christmas Compositions Accompanied by an Orchestra
Jakub Jan Ryba: Bohemian Christmas Mass - Jiří Teml: The Scriptures Came True, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Holy Night – Pastorals of Old Czech Masters

Children’s Operas

Václav Trojan: Beetles

Jiří Teml: Emperor’s New Clothes

Otmar Mácha: Animals and Bandits

Jiří Teml: Tomcat in Boots

The children's operas were composed for the Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir based on motifs of well-known children's tales.

Music and Dance Shows

Otmar Mácha: Suita Celebration of Spring

Otmar Mácha: Suita Oh Lord, Give Us a Jolly Evening
The music and dance shows were composed for the Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir based on motifs of traditional Czech, Moravian and Slovak habits and folk music dated mainly to the 19th century.

Besides the complete programme ensembles we are also able to realize:

• Individual projects, singing and musical productions (individually, or in cooperation with other musical ensembles or choirs)
• Recordings of film and scenic music with chorus elements
• Recording of CDs for other artists
• Utilization of specific age categories in musical projects (from 6 years of age) etc.

Would you be interested in performances of the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir?
The pricing, technical, acoustic and organizations terms for the concerts may be obtained at the administrative offices of the Choir or at e-mail address: info@kuhnata.cz