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Daegeon Chamber Choir was founded by Joseph An in 1996 to research and disseminate choral and church music in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras, which are the origins of church music. It has grown into a nationally renowned choir by devoting itself to performing and distributing church music from the medieval Gregorian chant to the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Through dozens of regular and irregular concerts over the past 21 years, it reproduces and introduces fresh and differentiated early music in its original form as possible.
Refined through performances such as "Church Music Pilgrimage," which performs church music from each country in turn, the period performance of the premiere version of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin, the domestic premiere of J.S. Bach's Motet and Georg Philipp Telemann's Cantata, and the Wah of G.F. Handel and Purcell, two British masters. By presenting ancient music, the novel and in-depth performances and planning received a great response.
Since 2014, the 'Zelenka Performance Series' has been planned for the fourth year by discovering the works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, who was an outstanding composer who was praised by J.S. Bach and G.P. Telemann, but was not known to the world. The choir premiered in October 2014 Missa Omnium Sanctorum (ZWV 21) and 2015 (ZWV 19) in Korea, and in 2016, he played J.S. Bach's cantata (BWV 214) and J.D. Zelenka's (ZWV 146). In 2017, in the fourth of J.D. Zelenka's performance series, the choir performed Missa Dei Filii, the second of J.D. Zelenka's Last Mass Missae ultimae, to present all of his existing Missae ultimae series. In addition, J.S. Bach's Trauerode BWV 198 Memorial Cantata in honor of Eberhardine, the queen of King August I, was played together, providing an opportunity to compare and appreciate the works of two masters who were active in a nearby city at the same time. |
