Choir

Once the Lights Are Lit

Songs, lyrics, and organ music for Christmas with the Philharmonic Children's Choir.

About the Concert

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Contributer

Gunter Berger
Conductor
Karolina Juodelyte
Organ
Philharmonischer Kinderchor Dresden

Biographies

Gunter Berger

Choir Director / Direction children's and civic choir

Gunter Berger received his musical education in school music and orchestral conducting at the music academies of Weimar and Leipzig.

Since 1990 he has devoted himself mainly to choral music with both children and adults. As director of the MDR Kinderchor from 1990 to 2011, he led it to European recognition. He has also worked with, for example, the Gewandhauschor Leipzig, the Berliner Cappella and many other ensembles.

Since the 2012/13 season, Gunter Berger has led the Dresden Philharmonic Choirs as choir director.

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Karolina Juodelyte

organ

Lithuanian-born Karolina Juodelyte, "who possesses a mature artistic style with technical brilliance" ("Westfälische Nachrichten", 2019), is one of the leading concert organists of her generation.

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Philharmonischer Kinderchor Dresden

The children's choir owes its foundation to an initiative of the then chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur, in 1967 and thus looks back on a history of more than fifty years. Today, the Dresden Philharmonic Children's Choir is one of the best-known and most successful children's choirs in Germany. The continuous professional work with the children is supported by the close cooperation with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra.

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