Radio orchestra and choir gGmbH

Radio orchestra and choir (non-profit) limited liability company Berlin
legal form	Profit company
founding	January 1, 1994
Seat	Berlin , Germany
management	Anselm Rose
Number of employees	363 (end of 2017)
sales	5.79 million euros (2017)
Branch	Arts, entertainment and recreation
Website	www.roc-berlin.de

The Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre (non-profit) company with limited liability Berlin (spelling: ROC Berlin) has been the supporting company for the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin (DSO), the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB), the Rundfunkchor Berlin , which has existed since 1994 and the RIAS Chamber Choir .

Today's sound bodies and lines

The following ensembles and musical directors belong to ROC Berlin:

• German Symphony Orchestra Berlin (DSO)
  It was founded in West Berlin in 1946 as the RIAS Symphony Orchestra (RSO). In 1956 it took on the name Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin , since 1993 it has had its current name.
  In 2017 Robin Ticciati took over the management.

• Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB)
  The orchestra , founded in 1923, continued to exist in East Berlin after the Second World War , later served the radio of the GDR and was last supported by the Deutschlandsender Kultur . Vladimir Jurowski has been chief conductor of this orchestra
  since 2017 .

• Rundfunkchor Berlin
  It goes back to the Berlin Funkchor founded in 1925 . From 1933 onwards he called himself the choir of the Reichssender Berlin for ten years . A few months after the end of the war, he continued his work under the name Berliner Solistenvereinigung . In 1973, this association was finally merged with the Great Choir of the Berlin Radio , founded in 1948, and worked as an ensemble of the GDR radio. Gijs Leenaars
  has been the choir director since 2015 .
• RIAS Chamber Choir .
  This choir was founded in 1948 by the then broadcaster RIAS Berlin. Justin Doyle
  has been the choirmaster since 2017 .

Shareholder

The GmbH shares are distributed among four shareholders : Deutschlandradio (40%), Federal Republic of Germany (35%), Berlin (20%) and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (5%).

History of the sponsoring company

Management of the company
1994	Elmar Weingarten
1996	Dieter Rexroth
2001	Bettina Pesch
2006	Gernot Rehrl
2012	Thomas Kipp
2018	Anselm Rose

The company's history began in 1956 with the founding of the supporting company for the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (founded in 1946 as the RIAS Symphony Orchestra ; renamed the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 1993 ).

These carriers society changed on 1 January 1994 company and purpose. It became a radio orchestra and choir (non-profit) limited liability company . According to its statutes, the society has the task of promoting art and culture, in particular by entertaining initially five orchestras: the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin (DSO), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), the Great Radio Choir , and the RIAS Chamber Choir and the RIAS dance orchestra . In 1995 the term Berlin was added to the end of the company name.

At the beginning of the same year, the RIAS Dance Orchestra was also renamed the RIAS Big Band . The musicians of this big band received their dismissals on August 31, 2001. They finally remained employees of the sponsoring company until August 2002, but no longer appeared under their names.

The company's orchestras and choirs have received a number of awards since 1994, including Grammys and Echoes .

Range of services and data

The ensembles give concerts and make music recordings, mostly CDs .

In 2017, the ensemble gave 164 orchestral and / or choir concerts in Berlin with a total of 149,928 visitors (2016: 137 concerts with 134,691 visitors). The occupancy rate here was 84 percent (2016: 83 percent). Guest performances, special concerts and provisions for which the ROC Berlin was not responsible but by third parties added 70 concerts with a total of 92,801 visitors in 2017. Outside Berlin there were 35 concerts with a total of 36,425 visitors (2016: 61 concerts with 72,980 visitors). The ensemble reached on the radio nationwide also 1.8 million listeners (2019).

The sponsoring company generated sales of 5.79 million euros in 2017 . The number of employees on December 31, 2017 was 363 (end of 2016: 370).

See also

• List of private companies with federal participation

Web links

• ROC Berlin website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Horst: One has to believe in it - only who? The ROC-GmbH is fighting for survival. Don't kill each other . In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 28, 1999.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Frederik Hanssen: The feeling of four. The Berliner Rundfunkorchester und -chöre GmbH turns 25. Its director Anselm Rose pleads for even closer proximity to the audience . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 30, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre (non-profit) limited liability company in Berlin: Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31 , 2017 , published on March 12, 2019 in the Federal Gazette .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Königsdorf: Birthday with discordant sounds. Why the planned merger of the two Berlin radio orchestras damaged Berlin's reputation as a city of culture . in: Der Tagesspiegel , December 6, 2009.
5. ↑ The orchestra . In: Die Welt , April 15, 2009.
6. ↑ Chronicle. 70 years of DSO. In: dso-berlin.de. Retrieved February 17, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Burkhard Müller-Ullrich: "We can embark on the path to excellence". In: Deutschlandfunk . December 4, 2009, accessed on February 17, 2020 (interview). 
8. ↑ Deutschlandradio: DS Kultur. In: deutschlandradio.de. Retrieved February 17, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Jurowski longer with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. In: Music Today. April 2, 2019, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Martina Helmig: In demand from New York to New Zealand: The Rundfunkchor Berlin celebrates its 75th birthday. 64 singers became an export hit . In: Berliner Morgenpost , May 20, 2000.
11. ↑ Wolfgang Hanke: Rundfunkchor Berlin: New worlds of experience in choral music. In: Kulturklassik.de. July 2, 2014, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Wolfgang Fuhrmann: Success is not enough. The radio choir is in international demand. Tonight he sings in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 16, 2006.
13. ^ Ulrich Amling: Gijs Leenaars extends the radio choir. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 15, 2019, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Sybill Mahlke: On to the mountains. The RIAS Chamber Choir on the ladder of success: Now the ensemble is celebrating its 60th birthday. In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 26, 2008, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Ulrich Amling: Justin Doyle does it like the magpie. In: Der Tagesspiegel. September 14, 2017, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre gGmbH Berlin: partner. In: roc-berlin.de. Retrieved February 17, 2020 (company website). 
17. ↑ Culture news . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 5, 1994.
18. ↑ New surprises in a united Berlin ( memento of October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on dso-berlin.de
19. ↑ Janowski also head of the RSO Berlin . In: Sächsische Zeitung , October 12, 2001.
20. ^ Bamberger to Berlin. Gernot Rehrl as director of the radio orchestra . In: Franconian Day (Bamberg edition), November 15, 2005.
21. ↑ Thomas Kipp takes over the Rundfunkorchester und -chöre GmbH . In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 22, 2012.
22. ↑ Company information on the Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre (non-profit) limited liability company in Berlin in the company information compact database (Crefonummer 2010203053) of Creditreform , accessed on January 27, 2020.
23. ↑ Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, (non-profit) limited liability company: Commercial register announcement in the Federal Gazette , March 31, 1994.
24. ↑ Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre (non-profit) limited liability company: Commercial register announcement in the Federal Gazette , February 28, 1995.
25. ↑ RIAS Big Band apparently shortly before the end . In: Die Welt , November 14, 2000.
26. ^ Peter E. Müller: Bureaucracy prevents television appearance. Robbie has to swing without the Rias Big Band . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 15, 2001.
27. ^ Deutsche Grammophon: Biography. In: deutschegrammophon.com. Retrieved on February 13, 2020 (English, keywords about the Rundfunkchor Berlin). 
28. ^ Berliner Festspiele: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. In: berlinerfestspiele.de. June 2017, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
29. ↑ Annual press conference of the RIAS Chamber Choir 2014-2015 ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) June 3, 2014, accessed: February 13, 2020.
30. ^ Brussels Philharmonic vzw: Florian Helgath. In: brusselsphilharmonic.be. Retrieved February 13, 2020 . 
31. ↑ Echo Klassik 2007. In: neue musikzeitung . June 18, 2007, accessed February 13, 2020 . 
32. ↑ A roof made of music: 25 years of ROC in Berlin. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 17, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 .