25 years of the Berlin Homophilharmonic

25 years of the Berlin Homophilharmonic

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

February 25, 2024

The Tagespiegel has a fascinating feature on Berlin’s gay orchestra, the Concentus alius, which also calls itself Das Homophilharmonisches Orchester Berlin.

The LGBT orchestra, made up mostly of amateur musicians, ias markling its quarter-century with an ambitious performance of Mahler’s second symphony on Tuesday involving 12 amateur choirs (not all of them gay). The conductor is Christiane Silber, a violist in the Berlin radio symphony orchestra. The concert is completely sold out.

Concentus alius is self-avowedly modelled on the London Gay Symphony Orchestra which fllourished in the 1990s.

Read more here.

Photo: Frank Rönisch/CA

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