Webern Chamber Choir of mdw

Since its establishment under Herwig Reiter in 1983, the Webern Chamber Choir has been a fixture of Viennese concert life. The choir has since been led by Johannes Prinz (1988–1999), Alois Glaßner (1999–2011 and again since March 2016) and Johannes Hiemetsberger (2011-2016), all of them renowned choral directors.

Its members — all of them students of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna — come together to pursue their interest in choral singing across a broad range of styles, working on repertoire ranging from baroque oratorios to pop and jazz numbers, and from madrigals to world premières of contemporary works for a cappella choir.

In the Choral Bridges series, the Webern Chamber Choir seeks out encounters with choirs of universities of music from all over the world, including choirs like the Madrigal Choir of the Academy of Music and Theatre Munich (Germany), the Mississippi Concert Singers (USA), the Chamber Choir Weimar (Germany), and the Youth Philharmonic Choir Bogotá (Colombia). The choir was happy to not only visit these choirs in their home universities but also welcome them to Vienna.

In addition to concerts in Vienna (Konzerthaus, Musikverein) and elsewhere in Austria, numerous international concert tours have taken the choir to countries like Japan, France, Germany, Spain and Finland, where the choir was a prize-winner at the International Choir Competition in Tampere.

The choir's repertoire is quite diverse and covers at least one a-cappella-program and one piece with orchestra per academic year, like Bach's CHRISTMAS ORATORIO and Thomas Tallis' SPEM IN ALIUM in the upcoming academic year. In spring we'll be a part of a tv production in cooperation with ORF III. im kommenden Studienjahr. Im Frühling erwartet uns auch eine Fernsehproduktion in Kooperation mit ORF III. We're looking forward to it!