The Berlin Pop Choir
The Berlin Pop Choir and Ensemble’s psychedelic spring performance was far out, man! On 4. April we raised the roof again at the legendary SO36 with 2 amazing choirs plus a beautiful ‘Indian music pot pourri‘ from Sankalita Mandal and a Kinks song from Lyndsey Cockwell with Claire Coleman. Everyone dressed for the occasion and it was a truly groovy night.
The Berlin Pop Ensemble
Lyndsey Cockwell and Claire Coleman
Sankalita Mandal
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Photo: Adam Vradenburg photography
Due to health issues, the Berlin Pop Choir and Berlin Pop Ensemble will be on an extra long summer break until September/October 2017.
Sign up to the Berlin Pop Choir mailing list at http://eepurl.com/hfhYw to be informed when there will be spontaneous Berlin Pop-up Choir sessions throughout the summer, or registrations are open for the next Berlin Pop Ensemble course. We look forward to singing with you soon.
Lyndsey Cockwell conducts the Berlin Pop Choir. Photo: Adam Vradenbug (http://vradenburg.de)
The Berlin Pop Choir and Ensemble winter performance was another triumph! The devilishly good HEAVEN AND HELL themed celebration took place on 20. December 2016 at the legendary SO36.
We were delighted to have Sacred Harp Berlin along as special guests, and Lyndsey Cockwell performed two songs inspired by the Heaven and Hell theme. As usual the choirs dressed up to the nines and sang as good as they looked! The audience were dancing in the isles. A huge well done to everyone who took part!
The Berlin Pop Ensemble. Photo: Adam Vradenbug (http://vradenburg.de)
Shape note Berlin invite the audience to join them in Sacred Harp singing. Photo: Adam Vradenbug (http://vradenburg.de)
SO36, Berlin. Photo: Adam Vradenbug (http://vradenburg.de)
Photo by Anne Savanne
On 24. July 2016, The Berlin Pop Choir collaborated with artisits Isabella Fürnkäs and Carina Erdmann as part of the Udk Rundgang. SIREN was a site specific performance project organized by students of the University of the Arts in Berlin (Udk) at Ernst-Reuter-Platz – a central traffic island with a huge water fountain.
For this unique performance, we sang a specially adapted and improvised version of BPC Director Lyndsey Cockwell’s arrangement of the Malaria! classic: ‘Kaltes Klares Wasser,‘ and actually got in the water and performed a choreography. There has certainly never been a BPC performance like it!
Video by Käthe Kramer
Lyndsey Cockwell presented the Berlin Pop Choir and Ensemble summer performance on 14. June 2016. We worked hard for 10 weeks and were ready to show everyone what we could do! Exploding with energy, the two choirs gave the choral scene a shot in the arm with their original, contemporary arrangements, heavenly harmonies, gorgeous grooves – and their love of dressing up!
The power and moving sounds of around 200 performers singing for the pure joy of it was as infectious as ever and the Berlin Pop Choir sang ‘Last nite‘ by The Strokes, ‘Kaltes Klares Wasser‘ by Malaria!, ‘Fade to grey‘ by Visage and ‘Praise you‘ by Fatboy Slim. Hear for yourself with the youtube playlist above.
The Berlin Pop Choir took their second summer trip in July 2016 to Schloss Noer near the Ostsee. A weekend dedicated to sun, sand, sea and most importantly singing!
There was morning workshops and afternoon 3-4 part harmony singing in the Schloss’ beautiful roter saal, and the singing didn’t stop there! we had road trip bus songs, camp fire songs and sunset singing on the beach. Everyone had a fantastic time.
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