Renowned choir conductors Hans-Christian Henkel (Kiel Boys Choirs, Germany) and Hirvo Surva (Revalia Men’s Chamber Choir, Estonia) have joined forces and created a new men’s choir. Breathing new life into the tradition of young men singing together is very important to these long-term friends, working partners and artistic directors. In order to write new music especially for young male voices, they turned to composers from both Germany (Prof. Dr. Manfred Weiss and Helmut Steger) and Estonia (Tõnu Kõrvits and Piret Rips). Together they have created four extraordinary works that both add to and reshape the world’s male choir repertoire.

The new choir will give the first joint performance in Kiel on 16th of June, at 19.00 in Nikolaikirche.

The performances of the new choir in Tallinn as part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture will take place in September 2011.