The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin is one of the world's best choirs, whether the programme includes early music or some contemporary composition. They have worked on the Baroque repertoire with some of the greatest conductors, like Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Frans Brüggen, John Eliot Gardiner, René Jacobs, and Philippe Herreweghe. Such composers have written works for the The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin as Paul Hindemith, Hans Werner Henze, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, Aribert Reimann - and the list coul...d go on and on. With the help of Amadinda Percussion Group and outstanding soloists, they will perform a cultic work of American avant-garde music, Rothko Chapel (1971), which transforms silence into notes, as well as two compositions that are quite new. The conductor is James Wood, who is one of the most important British musicians of the past few decades, both as a composer and as a percussionist.

The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin is an ensemble of Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin.
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The concert will be preceded from 6.30 pm by a conversation entitled Prelude, where ticket holders will be invited to get to know the performing musician and the works to be performed more closely.