The Ensemble Vocapella Limburg
was founded in 2007 by young men from the Limburg region who share their musical roots as former members of the Limburger Domsingknaben (Limburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir). Together with their conductor Tristan Meister they have committed themselves to the art of men’s choir literature. The choir has built an excellent reputation and is frequently invited to give concerts at home and abroad. Concert tours have taken the singers to Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Hungary, Belgium and all parts of Germany. They have garnered awards at several competitions, including the Budapest Choir Competition (2013), the Hessian Choir Competition in Schlitz (2013) and the German Choir Competition in Weimar (2014). In Weimar, besides winning the special award for contemporary music, the choir also won the production of this CD by Rondeau Production in recognition of their outstanding performance. The choir’s first CD titled In der Ferne (In the Distance) was released in 2012. The choir’s repertoire spans the men’s choir literature from all eras and includes Renaissance music as well as contemporary pieces, which are often written specifically for the choir by renowned composers.

Tristan Meister
was born in 1989 and received his first musical training as a member of the Limburger Domsingknaben. He studied choral conducting with Georg Grün, Harald Jers and Frieder Bernius as well as orchestral conducting with Klaus Arp at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. His studies have included courses with Kai-Uwe Jirka and Morten Schuldt-Jensen. He serves as the director of several choirs including the Ensemble Vocapella Limburg, with which he won a first prize at the Deutscher Chorwettbewerb in 2014, the Wormser Kammerensemble, the Vox Quadrata chamber choir and the Jugendchor Hochtaunus. Alongside these commitments he lectures at the Heidelberg University, where he is an assistant to the university’s music director. With his choirs Tristan Meister is frequently invited to festivals at home and abroad. He is a frequent collaborator of ensembles such as the Baden-Badener Philharmoniker, the Chorakademie Lübeck and the Festivalchor of the Schleswig- Holstein Musik-Festival, and holds workshops and courses for choir singers and conductors.