The Embassy Singers is a Berlin-based chamber choir specialising in music by English-speaking composers. Our repertoire covers everything from 16th century madrigals and motets to spirituals and songs from the shows. We draw our members from the international diplomatic community in Berlin and other English-speaking residents of the city. We rehearse on Wednesdays from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. in the British Embassy.

The Embassy Singers in Quedlinburg, 2005
Photo: Marco Permutti

The choir has a busy and lively schedule of performances. It puts on several major concerts a year and participates in church services and other high-profile events. The venues for its performances are as varied as its repertoire: it has sung in many of the major churches in Berlin, such as the Berliner Dom and the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, as well as in the Embassy and the Schauspielhaus; it has taken anthems to Tegel Prison and Christmas carols to Bellevue Palace; and it gave a midnight welcome to the ten new EU member states with folksongs and "Ode to Joy" at the Brandenburg Gate in May 2004. It has since featured on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme and on Hungary's Kossuth Rádió.

The Embassy Singers in Zurich, 2004

We also venture outside Berlin: for example, we have sung concerts and services in Hamburg, Erfurt, Dresden (Frauenkirche), Quedlinburg, Leipzig and Uelzen; our trips abroad have taken us to Vienna (St. Stephen's Cathedral), Zurich and Budapest (Mátyás-templom).

If you would like further information about the choir or wish to be included in our email-based publicity service giving details of future events, please contact us.