Bachchor Karlsruhe

Bachchor Karlsruhe, founded in 1905, is one of the city's oldest concert choirs and is based at the Kantorat of the Protestant Stadtkirche, where Christian-Markus Raiser has been artistic director since 1996. The choir performs two to three large oratorios a year and regularly contributes to services in the Stadtkirche. Its repertoire deliberately pairs canonical works with rarities — Karlsruhe first performances have included Franz Schmidt's Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln, Wolfgang Rihm's Deus Passus and Britten's War Requiem for the European Culture Days — and concert tours have taken it to the Berlin Cathedral, Leipzig's Thomaskirche and other major German churches.