June 30 – July 2, 2025 | Philharmonie Berlin
Choral Bridges – The exchange program for international choral excellence
The Dallas Symphony Chorus starts the European Concert Tour 2025 with a spectacular performance at the Philharmonie Berlin. The joint performance with the CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus includes a colorful program with works of Leonard Bernstein, Morten Lauridsen & Ola Gjeilo.
An inspiring collaborative project for singers from around the world.
Dallas Symphony Chorus meets CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus
at Philharmonie Berlin
Would you like to join us for this unique exchange project?
The project is open to singers who register individually as well as to choirs and ensembles that can participate as a complete ensemble or as part of an ensemble.
Registrations are now open. Read more and join us today!
What do we sing?
The Dallas Symphony Chorus will perform Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen and Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein. The CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus will present the Sunrise Mass by Ola Gjeilo. Both choirs will perform Abendlied by Joseph Rheinberger together.
In this website you can register to join the CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus in performing the Sunrise Mass at the Philharmonie Berlin and Abendlied with both choirs together.
Who will lead the project?
The artistic directors of the project are Anthony Blake Clark for the Dallas Symphony Chorus and Simon Berg for the CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus.
Where will rehearsals and concert take place?
Rehearsals are scheduled in the Luisenkirche.
The final rehearsal and the closing concert will take place in the big hall of the Philharmonie Berlin.
What costs are involved?
The participation fee for the festival is EUR 98.00 per participant.
Non-performing accompanying persons are offered a reduced participation fee of EUR 55.00 per person that includes access to all rehearsals and a concert ticket in the best category for the concert at the Philharmonie Berlin.
Accompanying persons, friends and fans that wish to attend only the concert can purchase concert tickets in our ticket website.
Dallas meets Berlin
The spectacular Choral Exchange at the Philharmonie Berlin
Perform with us!
The schedule of the project
June 30, 2025
Choir & Piano Rehearsal 1
14:00 – 16:00 Luisenkirche
Choir & Piano Rehearsal 2
16:30 – 18:30 Luisenkirche
July 1, 2025
Choir & Piano Rehearsal 3
14:00 – 17:00 Luisenkirche
Tutti rehearsal
20:00 – 21:30 Luisenkirche
July 2, 2025
Dress rehearsal
10:00 – 13:00 Philharmonie Berlin
Warm-up
18:30 – 19:30 Matthäuskirche (Kulturforum)
Concert “Dallas meets Berlin”
20:00 – 22:00 Philharmonie Berlin
Ensembles and Artistic Directors
Simon Berg (Conductor CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus)
Simon Berg discovered his passion for music at an early age, singing in children’s choirs. After attending the musically focused Pestalozzi-Gymnasium in Munich, he studied voice and piano at the Richard Strauss Conservatory and served as church musician for the Evangelical-Reformed Church in Munich until 1999. In Berlin, he worked as a conductor for Der Glöckner von Notre Dame and as an artistic assistant for the EuropaChorAkademie. He has also conducted concerts with renowned ensembles. Since 2022, he has led the St. Konrad Gospel Choir and, since 2024, the gropies Berlin.
Anthony Blake Clark (Conductor Dallas Symphony Chorus)
Anthony Blake Clark is a leading voice among his generation of choral conductors. At Baltimore Choral Arts, he has served as Music Director since 2017. His work with BCAS has been recognized with an American Prize in Choral Conducting and a second nomination for best community ensemble, as well as the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award. After preparing three critically praised programs in 2022 and 2023, Music Director Fabio Luisi appointed Clark as Chorus Director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus. Anthony Blake Clark is also the Artistic Director of Bach Vespers in New York City.
Dallas Symphony Chorus
The Dallas Symphony Chorus is one of the leading concert choirs in the United States and a cornerstone of the Dallas arts scene since its founding. As the official chorus of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, it collaborates regularly with world-class conductors and soloists. Its repertoire spans symphonic masterpieces, sacred works, and contemporary compositions. With its distinctive sound, the chorus captivates audiences at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and beyond, including international listeners. In addition to regular performances, the chorus participates in tours and prestigious festivals.
CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus
With four concerts per year, the CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus is an integral part of the guest performance season at the Berlin Philharmonie.
Depending on the line-up, between 250 and 1,000 singers from all over the world come together to present magnificent moments of international choral music in one of the best concert halls in the world.
CHORALSPACE Festival Orchestra
The CHORALSPACE Festival Orchestra – founded as Ensemble Crescere – is CHORALSPACE’s own orchestra for choral symphonic projects. The young ensemble made its debut at the Philharmonie Berlin in March 2022 with the Coronation Anthems conducted by Simon Carrington. In June 2023 the ensemble performed “Ein Deutsches Requiem” by Johannes Brahms under the direction of Simon Halsey in the Philharmonie Berlin. The ensemble is led by Donka Miteva.
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