Jan Schumacher (DE)
Songs of Love & Hope
- Voices: SSA
- Age: 10-20y
- Difficulty: level B
Songs of Love & Hope enrich our life.
Songs of Love & Hope inspire us to express our deepest human feelings through the power of music.
Songs of Love & Hope may help to share our wishes, thought and sorrows.
Songs of Love & Hope can touch all of us individually, but still connect us.
May our performance bring Love & Hope to everyone!
Repertoire
| Ezili | Traditional from Haïti |
| I dreamed of rain | Jan Garrett - arr. Larry Nickel |
| I this heart | Sinead O'Connor - Laïs |
| From a distance | Julie Golg - Teena Chinn |
| The Shoop Shoop Song (It´s in his kiss) | Rudy Clark - arr. Roger Emerson |
Conductor
Jan Schumacher (*1980) is professor and Music Director at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt since 2015 and teaches conducting at the Music Academy in Darmstadt since 2019. As a child and young adult, Jan got his musical education with the Limburg Cathedral Boyschoir and the State Youth Choir of Rhineland-Palatinate. He was fascinated with the activity of group singing, which has remained the main motivation for his manifold activities to this day.
Jan teaches courses for all kind of choirs, orchestras and conductors worldwide, and for festivals like America Cantat (Panama 2019), Europa Cantat (Slowenia 2021), Africa Cantat (2023) or Choralies (2016, 2019, 2022). He also works regulary as conductor of Open Singings in festivals.