History

Danes Hill Elementary School offers its students three choirs, a symphony orchestra, a jazz band and many other ensembles. The Chamber Choir is the oldest choir in which children aged 10-13 sing. The choir hold many concerts each year, having previously performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Guildford Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and the Royal Military Chapel (Guards’ Chapel).

The American University Chamber Singers are a highly select ensemble open to music majors and students within American University’s broad tradition of outstanding liberal arts education. The group, chosen by audition, is known for its wide repertoire featuring different musical styles and periods including choral-orchestral literature with a particular emphasis on early music, a cappella works as well as Renaissance motets, Romantic anthems and part songs, folk arrangements, spirituals, and highly challenging contemporary composition. Recent major repertoire has included Bach’s Magnificat, all of his motets, cantata BWV 79 and the Missa in A Major, BWV 234 for the Lutheran 500 commemoration year, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Brahms’ Liebeslieder, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi and Serenade To Music, Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, Robert Convery’s Songs of Children, the U.S. premiere of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach’s Wohl dem, der den Herren fürchtet, as well as new works by composers including Britten, Gesualdo, Tallis, Tavener, Schickele, William Schuman, Eric Whitacre, Ola Gjeilo, Libby Larsen, Ysaye Barnwell, and many others.

Admission is voluntary.
The voluntary entrance fee will go to the DIAKONIE ČCE foundation, which is one of the most important providers of social services in the Czech Republic and number one in special education. For more than 30 years, he has been helping children, adults and seniors, as well as people in various life crises. It provides social health, educational and pastoral services in more than 279 facilities nationwide.

Hrynjandi Women’s Choir was founded in 2010 by a group of friends that wanted a platform to sing and perform on a regular basis. Actor and singer Maríus Sverrisson was the choir´s first conductor, leading the group until 2016.

In 2016 Jón Svavar Jósepsson took over the choir, and under his leadership the choir put more focus on Icelandic folk songs. But the repertoire also included 16th century music and American pop songs – a variation of song choices for which the choir was applauded.

In 2022 Soprano Berta Dröfn Ómarsdóttir took over the choir from Jón Svavar and changed the choir’s main emphasis to performing songs that are composed, written or arranged by women.

From early on the choir took part in installations and art shows and has cooperated and performed with various singers and artist such as Erna Ómarsdóttir, dancer and choreographer, Band called Eva, artist Þórunn Björnsdóttir and artist Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, whose art installation Rat Choir, which Hrynjandi was part of, was purchased by National Gallery of Iceland.

Admission is voluntary.
The voluntary entrance fee will go to the DIAKONIE ČCE foundation, which is one of the most important providers of social services in the Czech Republic and number one in special education. For more than 30 years, he has been helping children, adults and seniors, as well as people in various life crises. It provides social health, educational and pastoral services in more than 279 facilities nationwide.

Hrynjandi Women’s Choir was founded in 2010 by a group of friends that wanted a platform to sing and perform on a regular basis. Actor and singer Maríus Sverrisson was the choir´s first conductor, leading the group until 2016.

In 2016 Jón Svavar Jósepsson took over the choir, and under his leadership the choir put more focus on Icelandic folk songs. But the repertoire also included 16th century music and American pop songs – a variation of song choices for which the choir was applauded.

In 2022 Soprano Berta Dröfn Ómarsdóttir took over the choir from Jón Svavar and changed the choir’s main emphasis to performing songs that are composed, written or arranged by women.

From early on the choir took part in installations and art shows and has cooperated and performed with various singers and artist such as Erna Ómarsdóttir, dancer and choreographer, Band called Eva, artist Þórunn Björnsdóttir and artist Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir, whose art installation Rat Choir, which Hrynjandi was part of, was purchased by National Gallery of Iceland.

Admission is voluntary.
The voluntary entrance fee will go to the DIAKONIE ČCE foundation, which is one of the most important providers of social services in the Czech Republic and number one in special education. For more than 30 years, he has been helping children, adults and seniors, as well as people in various life crises. It provides social health, educational and pastoral services in more than 279 facilities nationwide.

The ensemble Vocapella Limburg was founded in 2007 and consists of about 20 young men from the Limburg region who have devoted themselves to demanding male choral literature and who have common roots in the boys’ choir of the Limburg Cathedral.
The ensemble has gained an excellent reputation and is regularly invited to perform at home and abroad. On concert tours, the singers were in Israel, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria and performed all over Germany. In 2019, Ensemble Vocapella Limburg participated in the World Choral Expo in Portugal as a representative for Germany.

Program:
The ensemble’s repertoire includes both sacred and secular music for male choir from all periods and includes works from the Renaissance to debut performances of contemporary music regularly commissioned by renowned composers.

Admission is voluntary.
The voluntary entrance fee will go to the DIAKONIE ČCE foundation, which is one of the most important providers of social services in the Czech Republic and number one in special education. For more than 30 years, he has been helping children, adults and seniors, as well as people in various life crises. It provides social health, educational and pastoral services in more than 279 facilities nationwide.