A Celebration of Contemporary Choral Music
April 12 – 16, 2023 | Philharmonie Berlin, Germany

In April next year, CHORALSPACE presents Walking in Beauty – a festival focusing on contemporary choral music. In partnership with Musica Baltica and Edition Peters, we are thrilled to be inviting one of the most popular composers in the world today to be our Composer-in-Residence.
Welcome, Ēriks Ešenvalds!

Walking in Beauty is an opportunity for both individual singers and choirs from all over the world to gather, performing not only repertoire by Ešenvalds but also showcasing glorious contemporary music from their own nations.

Workshops, Performances, Discussions, Presentations, Sing Along …
in Berlin’s Top Venues

During this 5-day event, singers will enjoy a programme of workshops, seminars and performances in a selection of the most exciting venues that Berlin has to offer. The climax of the festival is The Grand Finale at the Berlin Philharmonie. Sit back and enjoy both ensemble showcases and the joint forces of individual singers and ensembles, performing as one – The CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus.

Ēriks Ešenvalds
Composer-in-Residence

Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most sought-after composers working today, with a busy commission schedule and performances of his music heard on every continent. In 2011 he was awarded the two-year position of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Since then, Ēriks has won multiple awards for his work and undertakes many international residencies working on his music and lecturing.

Recent large-scale premieres include Lakes Awake at Dawn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, The Pleiades for the Grant Park Music Festival Chicago, A Shadow for the BBC Proms, Dreams Under Your Feet for the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Whispers on the Prairie Wind for the Utah Symphony and Salt Lake Vocal Artists, St Luke Passion for the Latvian Radio Choir and Sinfonietta Riga, Visions of Arctic: Sea for the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, and the major multimedia symphonies Nordic Light and the Volcano Symphony, both premiered in Latvia with further performances around the world.

Guest composers from Southeast Asia
In collaboration with Muziksea

CHORALSPACE is also delighted to be using this festival as a platform for a special focus of contemporary choral music from Southeast Asia. In collaboration with Muziksea, we are proud to champion the diverse cultural heritage of this thriving choral landscape. Walking in Beauty will shine a light on 5 Southeast Asian composers and arrangers – Ken Steven from Indonesia, Jude B. Roldan and Ily Matthew Maniano based in The Philippines, and Zechariah Goh and Darius Lim from Singapore.

Ēriks Ešenvalds comments:

“I am looking forward to coming together in Berlin in April 2023 with CHORALSPACE. The opportunity to gather in one place to share our different countries cultures as well as our common love of choral singing and choral music is exciting. I can’t wait to share my music with you!” 

Schedule
of the event

APRIL 12, 2023
20:00 – 22:00 Welcoming Concert (selected ensembles) at St. Matthäus Kirche

APRIL 13, 2023
10:00 – 12:00 CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus Piano Rehearsal 1 (all participants) at St. Matthäus Kirche
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch Concert (2 selected choirs)
15:00 – 17:00 Workshop for selected choirs with Ēriks Ešenvalds at St. Matthäus Kirche
20:00 – 22:00 Presentation Concert at St. Matthäus Kirche

APRIL 14, 2023
10:00 – 12:00 CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus Piano Rehearsal 2 (all participants) at St. Matthäus Kirche
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch Concert (2 selected choirs)
15:00 – 17:00 Workshop for selected choirs with Ēriks Ešenvalds at St. Matthäus Kirche
20:00 – 22:00 Presentation Concert of Southeast Asian choral repertoire at St. Matthäus Kirche

APRIL 15, 2023
10:00 – 12:00 CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus Piano Rehearsal 3 (all participants) at St. Matthäus Kirche
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch Concert (2 selected choirs)
15:00 – 17:00 Workshop for selected choirs with Ēriks Ešenvalds at St. Matthäus Kirche
20:00 – 22:00 Presentation Concert at St. Matthäus Kirche

APRIL 16, 2023 @Berlin Philharmonie
10:00 – 12:00 CHORALSPACE Festival Chorus Rehearsal (all participants) at Philharmonie Berlin
12:30 – 13:30 Internal Performance from the workshop choirs at Philharmonie Berlin
13:30 – 14:30 Rehearsal Showcase choirs at Philharmonie Berlin
16:00 – 18:00 Grand Finale Concert at the Philharmonie Berlin

Overview of costs
for performes and friends

The participation fee for the five-day project and the concert is EUR 95.00.
Accompanying persons, family members, friends or colleagues are offered a reduced participation fee of EUR 55.00 per person. This includes access to all rehearsals, to the welcoming concert, to the three presentation concerts, and a ticket in the best ticket category for the concert in the Philharmonie Berlin.

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