Sounding tradition: Bremen Kantorei inspires with a festive concert!

Sounding tradition: Bremen Kantorei inspires with a festive concert!

Kulturkirche St. Stephani, Bremen, Deutschland - Chorm music is very important in Bremen! On Monday, June 1, 2025, the Kulturkirche St. Stephani to offer the friends of singing. The Bremen Kantorei St. Stephani, under the direction of Tim Günther, presents a varied concert that includes works by renowned composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and many others.

The admission prices are fairly staggered: normal 18 euros, reduced 11 euros and only 5 euros for the holder of a Bremen pass. Tickets can be acquired in advance via Nordwest ticket, the Evangelical Information Center "Chapter 8", bookstores such as Georg Büchner and Humboldt and the music directorate of the cultural church. However, as it should be for a nice concert, remaining tickets will also be available on the box office.

a traditional choir with history

The Bremen Kantorei St. Stephani can look back on a proud story of 141 years. As one of the oldest choirs in the city, he has developed a modern and demanding profile. The repertoire includes around five different programs that range from classic oratorios to contemporary compositions. A highlight of choir history were the performances of the "Canto General" by Pablo Neruda/Mikis Theodorakis and "MessiaSaSambura".

The topics that shape choir work are anything but banal. Justice, peace, preservation of creation and solidarity are the focus. In this way, church music is also considered to be relevant to society, which underlines the importance of the Bremen cantore for the church and cultural landscape of Bremen.

new sounds in Bremen

Not only the Bremen Kantorei St. Stephani ensures musical highlights in the city. Also to note the Neue Kantorei Bremen , which also presented up-to-up talents and classics of choral music in the church of St. Ursula in Bremen-Schwachhausen. The choir, which was founded in 2008 and consists of around 25 singers, lists works from the baroque to early classical music.

choral singing in the change of time

Choral singing has a eventful story in Germany. As the book "Choral singing in Germany" by Hartmut Lutschewitz shows, singing was originally a purely male matter. Today, however, there is an increased trend towards aging and membership loss within many choirs. The merger of the German worker Singerbund and the German Singing Association to a joint choir association is a step to master these challenges.

cineastes and music lovers can acquire the 130 pages of the book for deeper insights into the historical and current situation of choral music, both in bookshops and online.

Bremen shows how alive and diverse choral music is nowadays. Whether at a concert by the Bremen cantore or the new cantore, everyone is guaranteed to find something according to their taste!