Mendelssohn Chamber Choir Berlin
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| Seat: | Berlin / Germany |
| Carrier: | Registered association |
| Founding: | 1986 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Volkher Häusler |
| Head : | Volkher Häusler |
| Voices : | 20 (SATB) |
| Website : | www.MendelssohnKammerChorBerlin.de |
The MendelssohnKammerChor Berlin is a semi-professional mixed choir founded by Volkher Häusler in September 2006 and based in Berlin . Volkher Häusler is the artistic director of the registered association .
The Mendelssohn Chamber Choir Berlin emerged from the Kreuzberger Kantorei , which was founded in 1986 by Volkher Häusler.
The repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary music . One focus is placed on the choral works of the members of the Mendelssohn family , Fanny Hensel , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Arnold Mendelssohn . Since September 2013 the choir has been collaborating with the Mendelssohn Society , which includes premieres of compositions by the Mendelssohn family in the Mendelssohn Remise . Furthermore, the MendelssohnKammerChor Berlin will not only perform musical works from the Mendelssohn family, but also, for example, baroque settings of psalm translations by Moses Mendelssohn .
The Mendelssohn Chamber Choir Berlin is a member of the Berlin Choir Association . The choir sings frequently in chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic and has several works by the German composer Volker Wangenheim premiered . The activities of the choir also extend to theater projects, for example with the artist Helge Leiberg . The choir performs mainly in Berlin and Brandenburg , but has also made concert tours abroad.
The pharmacologist Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen is the choir's patron.
Individual evidence
- ^ MendelssohnKammerChor Berlin - Concerts , MendelssohnKammerChor Berlin, accessed on March 29, 2017
- ↑ Season opening concert of the Mendelssohn ChamberChor Berlin - At the beginning of the collaboration with the Mendelssohn Remise , September 8, 2013, 7 p.m., accessed online on September 16, 2013
- ↑ Newsletter of the Mendelssohn Society ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 116 kB), August 28, 2013, Berlin, accessed online on September 16, 2013
- ↑ Thomas Lackmann : The life of Moses M. , Der Tagesspiegel number 22157 from September 6, 2014, page
- ^ Choirs in the Berlin Choir Association
- ↑ Berliner Chorspiegel 137 (2005) , page 5 (PDF file; 398 kB)
- ↑ Berliner Chorspiegel 153 (2009) , page 8 (PDF file; 765 kB)
- ↑ Berliner Chorspiegel 170 (2013) , page 4 (PDF file; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Improvisations - Pictures + Bronzes by Helge Leiberg - Dance of Death
