Choir

Philharmonic Children's Choir meets Vienna Choir Girls

© Lukas Beck

5/14

Wednesday | 5/14/2025
7:00 pm Start of Concert
Lukaskirche
17,- €
9,- € for pupils, students, trainees, federal volunteers and FSJ volunteers under 30 years of age
8.50 € for Dresden Pass holders and severely disabled persons with a degree of disability of 80% or more

About the Concert

This concert brings together two choral traditions, the local one of the Philharmonic Children's Choir Dresden and the Austrian one of the Vienna Choral Girls. The two ensembles will be singing together for the first time; the next concert will take place in Vienna in autumn 2025.

Program

Joseph Haydn
Joy, your magic power

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
"Spring Greeting" op. 79

From South Africa
Sanna, sannanina

Vivian
Amaya

Nancy Tefler
As the deer longs

Edward Elgar
Lamb of God

Esmeralda Conde Ruiz
The song wants to be light

Roger Emerson
Sing Brazil!

Venezuelan Song
Enjoy my calypso

Ennio Morricone
In My Fantasy

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Praise the Lord, O children

Franz Schubert
"Laughing and Crying"

Henry Purcell
Music for a While

Nancy Telfer
Kyrie

Fanny Hensel
Dusk descended from above
"To the South" from: Five Songs op. 10

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus KV 618

Franz Paul Fiebrich
The greatest happiness

Franz Schubert
Song from Vienna

American Spiritual
Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door

Walter Hawkins
I'm Going up a Yonder

Stefan Foidl
Riobamba Dance

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Veni Domine

Henry Purcell
Sound the Trumpet

Artists

Gunter Berger
Conductor
Stefan Foidl
Guest Choirconductor
Philharmonischer Kinderchor Dresden
Wiener Chormädchen

Biographies

Gunter Berger

Choir Director / Direction children's and civic choir

Gunter Berger studied school music and orchestral conducting, but has devoted himself primarily to choral music since 1990. From 1990 to 2011, he led the MDR Children's Choir to European fame, and from summer 2012 he took over the direction of the Dresden Philharmonic Choir for ten years. Since 2022, he has concentrated on conducting the Dresden Philharmonic Children's Choir and the Bürgerchor am Kulti as well as on his numerous teaching activities, workshops and program ideas, with which he enriches the choral scene.

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Stefan Foidl

Stefan Foidl is the conductor of the Wiener Chormädchen.
Foidl studied choral conducting, composition and jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the University of Miami/USA, among others.

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Philharmonischer Kinderchor Dresden

The Philharmonische Kinderchor Dresden is one of the most well-known and successful children's choirs in Germany and can look back on a history of over fifty years. 140 girls and boys currently sing in the choir's various formations, sometimes in performances with the Dresden Philharmonic and sometimes in their own concerts. The programs include works from the Renaissance to the 21st century, from many countries and cultures, from folk songs to pop adaptations.

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Wiener Chormädchen

The Vienna Girls‘ Choir (conductor: Stefan Foidl) is the independent girls’ choir of the Vienna Boys' Choir. What began in 2004 with a handful of female singers is now a professional chamber choir of 26 dedicated young ladies aged between ten and 14.

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