Camerata Vocalis Tübingen

Through numerous concert tours within and outside Europe, as well as CD and radio productions, the Camerata Vocalis chamber choir has acted as a musical ambassador for Tübingen and its university worldwide in recent years. Its musical focus lies in the development of a stylistically wide-ranging a cappella repertoire. The chamber choir was founded in 1973 by UMD Alexander Šumski. His work focused in particular on the music of the Eastern Church and the rediscovery and reappraisal of music from Upper Swabian monasteries, which resulted in several CDs. The main focus of his concert tours was on the African continent, where the choir was available for choir conducting seminars in addition to its concerts. After 27 years of conducting the Collegium Musicum, Šumski handed Camerata Vocalis over to his successor Tobias Hiller in 1999, who produced several CD recordings with the ensemble.

During this time, concert tours took Camerata Vocalis to the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Morocco, Brazil, the USA and Canada.

Since April 2011, the direction has been in the hands of UMD Philipp Amelung. He would like to continue the tradition of his predecessors to act as an ambassador for the University of Tübingen abroad with Camerata Vocalis and to rehearse concert programs with lesser-known literature. Highlights since then have been concert tours to Israel and Palestine (2012), Brazil (2013), Saxony (Leipzig and Dresden 2014) and Sweden (2016).