»Take off into New Worlds« Rundfunkchor Berlin presents manifesto at the end of the 2020/21 season
At the end of the current season, the Rundfunkchor Berlin presents a manifesto in the form of a brochure which stands at the intersection of the developments of the past and the plans for the coming months. Under the motto »Take off into new worlds«, the manifesto picks up on the current digitalisation drive and represents the permanent change that is shaping our work more than ever.
20.11.2020
THE WORLD TO COME – now available as listening experience on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
The musical core work as well as an exemplary tour through the concert installation of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, this is a festive mass based on Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", are now available as a listening experience on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
10.09.2020
THE WORLD TO COME – Festive Berlin mass based on Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Missa solemnis”
The Rundfunkchor Berlin is continuing its successful series of transdisciplinary projects with the centrepiece of the 2020/21 season: THE WORLD TO COME. Under the musical direction of chief conductor Gijs Leenaars the Rundfunkchor Berlin stages the next transdisciplinary project after the renowned “human requiem” und “LUTHER dancing with the gods”. Working from a concept and direction by Tilman Hecker and a composition by Birke J. Bertelsmeier THE WORLD TO COME combines contemporary musical trends with Beethoven's masterpiece in a concert installation. Together with the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin artists Colin Self, Iwona Sobotka, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Moor Mother, and Planningtorock are taking the themes and music of Beethoven's mass as the starting point for an extraordinary musical journey into the world of tomorrow.
29.04.2020
Sing Along Concert ONLINE – International Sing Along Project with Simon Halsey
INTERKULTUR and the Rundfunkchor Berlin are hosting the Sing Along project »Sing Along Concert ONLINE« from May 4-10 under the artistic direction of Simon Halsey and will bring together singers from all over the world in a digital way in order to sing together from their homes.
16.04.2020
»Fest der Chorkulturen« is not taking place due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Corresponding with the decision concerning the continuance of the COVID-19 measures in the Federal Republic of Germany by the federal government and the federal states from 15th April 2020, the »Fest der Chorkulturen« on 1st May 2020 can not take place.
