The MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR is a top-class boys‘ choir based in the Bavarian capital. The name stands for the joy of music within the framework of professional vocal training at the highest level, which leads our singers to important concert and opera houses in Germany and abroad.

 

With the founding of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR in September 2014, a long-cherished wish came true for many friends of Munich’s musical culture and representatives of the city of Munich: an „own“ top-class boys‘ choir that promotes the Bavarian capital’s cultural offerings worldwide with its name.

When the idea of founding a new boys‘ choir took shape in the summer of 2014, a group of young, talented singers with years of singing experience spontaneously became enthusiastic about the musical adventure of a new start in singing.

This loyalty and courage of the founding boys guaranteed the choir a high artistic level from the very first hour.

 

And so the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR owes an extraordinary start to the youthful determination, the experience and the good contacts of many years of the new choir management to renowned concert and opera houses, renowned artists and influential agencies.

From zero to three hundred in 5 years.

Since its founding in September 2014, the choir and its soloists have completed more than 300 performances, some at major concert halls and opera houses in Germany and abroad. In 2019 alone, the year before the pandemic broke out, the choir traveled to eight countries during its 75 engagements.

In addition to numerous choral and solo performances in Germany, there were also a wide variety of opera engagements abroad, with more than 20 performances in Italy alone at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and the Florence Opera. Munich Boys‘ Choir has also given concert performances outside Europe in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha and Seoul. The choir has traveled several times to Austria and Switzerland, to France and Italy, and to several Spanish cities. The MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR was a guest in Russia and Canada, and on various concert tours through Korea and China it presented its wide-ranging repertoire to more than 10,000 concertgoers. Two performances on the Chinese television show „Chinese Bridge“ were each watched by more than 20 million viewers on their screens.

 

In March 2019, the choir and one of its soloists made their debut as the first boys‘ choir in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie as part of a contemporary concertante opera.

Musical highlights for 2020 in the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR’s concert calendar included participation in a choral festival in Guangdong Province, choral concerts in Salzburg, Venice and Paris, and opera engagements at major stages in Germany and abroad. Only a production of The Magic Flute at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman in January as well as the concert tour to the USA in February could still take place, all other performances fell victim to Corona and the following lockdowns or were postponed to the years 2021 and 2022, in which now again exciting performances and trips lure, among others to the Chinese island Hainan, to Liepaja/Latvia and to the Paris Philharmonic as well as to another highlight of the concert and male choir, a Pipe Organ Concert on the Arabian Peninsula.

With perseverance and high standards, the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR continues to pursue its ambitious goal of using the name of the Bavarian capital to enrich the musical cultural offerings on a national and international level as a very young, but already widely known world-class choir.

 

 

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ralf Ludewig is responsible as Artistic Director of the MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR. He was Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Tölzer Knabenchor for many years before founding his own choir in September 2014.