成立56年来，国王歌手合唱团在世界最伟大的舞台上树立了无伴奏合唱的黄金标准。他们以无与伦比的技巧、音乐才能和多才多艺而闻名，这源于该团体丰富的传统以及将大量新颖独特的作品、合作作品和录音带入生活的动力。国王歌手合唱团的唱片目录丰富，获得了无数奖项，包括两项格莱美奖、一项艾美奖，并被《留声机》杂志列入首届名人堂。

国王歌手合唱团于1968年正式成立，当时剑桥大学国王学院的六名合唱团新秀在伦敦伊丽莎白女王音乐厅举办了一场音乐会。碰巧的是，该合唱团由两名男高音、一名男高音、两名男中音和一名男低音组成，自那以后，该合唱团一直保持这种阵容。

过去几年，合唱团录制并发行了一系列多元化的合作专辑，展示了其曲目的广泛性。其中一张专辑向两位伟大的英国文艺复兴时期作曲家致敬：托马斯·威尔克斯和威廉·伯德；另一张专辑以浪漫主义音乐为中心；第三张专辑向迪士尼100周年致敬，收录了28首全新编曲的标志性迪士尼歌曲；第四张专辑是一张双专辑，重点介绍了乐团标志性的“亲密和声”编曲库；还有一张专辑则展现了乐团委托创作的大量新音乐。

扩大合唱音乐的全球影响力一直是国王歌手的主要目标之一，合唱团目前已委托20及21世纪许多最杰出的作曲家创作了300多部作品。这些作曲家包括约翰·塔文纳、久石让、朱迪思·宾汉姆、埃里克·惠特克、乔治·利盖蒂、卢西亚诺·贝里奥、潘德列茨基和武满彻。所有这些新音乐都加入了他们定制的无伴奏合唱作品，其中许多都是国王歌手过去和现在的作品。

他们除了紧张的演出和录音日程——每个季度在全球举办 100 多场音乐会——该团体还在全球范围内举办教育研讨会和住宿课程，与合唱团合作，传授小组演唱的技巧。为了纪念 2018 年成立50周年，他们成立了国王歌手全球基金会（总部位于美国），提供一个平台来支持跨学科的新音乐创作，培养新一代表演者，并为来自不同背景的有志者提供更多在音乐领域的施展机会。


THE KING’S SINGERS

The King''s Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over 56 years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which stem from the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life. The King’s Singers’ extensive discography has led to numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame.

The King’s Singers were officially formed in 1968 when six recent choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By chance, the group was made up of two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has stuck to this formation ever since.

In the last few years, the group has recorded and released a series of diverse, collaborative albums that showcase the huge breadth of their repertoire. One honours two great English Renaissance composers: Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd; another is centred around Romantic music; a third honours 100 years of Disney, with 28 brand-new arrangements of iconic Disney songs; a fourth is a double-album focussed on the group’s library of signature ‘close harmony’ arrangements; and another celebrates the group’s extraordinary body of commissioned new music.

Growing the global canon of choral music has always been one of the group''s key aims, and The King’s Singers have now commissioned more than 300 works by many of the most prominent composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include John Tavener, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. All this new music joins their body of bespoke a cappella arrangements, including many by King’s Singers past and present.

Alongside their demanding performing and recording schedule – with over 100 concerts worldwide every season – the group leads educational workshops and residential courses across the globe, working with ensembles on their approaches to group singing. To mark their 50th anniversary in 2018, they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation (based in the USA), to provide a platform to support the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, to coach a new generation of performers, and to provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.