Mandal Kantori

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Mandal Kantori er et kor på ca. 60 medlemmer tilknyttet Mandal menighet. Arbeidet vårt er todelt.

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Biography

Mandal Kantori is a mixed choir with about 65 members, founded on Sept. 1st 1988 by Tormod Lindland, conductor and cantor in the city's church. Most members of the choir live in Mandal, but also the wider region is represented by a number of singers. Mandal Kantori has two focus areas: To be a proactive participant with music in the local church, and to participate in larger projects, either on its own or in cooperation with other choirs and orchestras in the region or on national level. Examples are classical masterpieces, often in the church music genre and together with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, the most important symphony orchestra in the South Coast region of Norway, and traditional jazz and gospel music, usually performed together with New Orleans style jazz orchestras on Norwegian national level.
Conductors, Mandal Kantori:
Tormod Lindland (1988-2001, 2002-2008, 2011-)
Bjørn Odden (2001-2002)
Britt Turid Madsen (2009-2011)
The choir has at two occations won first prizes at national or international competitions:

Mixed choir class B, "Syng for oss", the Grieg Hall, Bergen 2001
Mixed choir class B, Concorso Corale Internazionale, Riva del Garda, Italy 2008
Mandal Kantori has issued two CD recordings:
"Guds rike er til" 1998
"Kildevang" 2008
Selected classical works

Mozart's Requiem (conductors Marianne Sødal Misje, Terje Mikkelsen, Rolf Gupta)
Beethoven's Mass in C Major (conductor Peter Szilvay)
Faure's Requiem (conductors Tormod Lindland, Andrew Wilder)
Anton Bruckner's Mass in E Minor (conductor Bjørn Sagstad)
Verdi's Requiem (conductor Terje Kvam)
Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem (conductors Olaf Henzold, Andrew Wilder)
Beethoven's 9th Symphony (conductor Giordano Bellincampi)
Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass (conductor Günter Voss)
Egil Hovland's church opera "Fange og fri" (conductor Terje Boye Hansen)

Participation at the opening of Kristiansand's concert hall Kilden 2012 with pieces from Aida, Carmen, Evita, Les Miserables and more, broadc