Tölz Boys’ Choir

Founded in 1956 by Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, the Tölzer Knabenchor is currently directed by Christian Fliegner. The 120 members of this boys’ choir, ranging in age from seven upward, receive professional training. Every year, they perform in around 150 concerts and opera productions worldwide, featuring music from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Time and again, soloists from the Tölzer Knabenchor have become famous for their performances of the three boys in Mozart’s The Magic Flute — in Munich, Zurich, Milan, Chicago, Paris, and Amsterdam. Over the decades, conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert von Karajan, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, and Christian Thielemann have worked with the Tölzer Knabenchor. Concert tours have taken the choir across Europe and to the USA, Asia, and Israel. Its recordings have garnered awards including the German Record Prize, Echo Klassik, and Diapason d’or.

Lucerne Festival (IMF) debut on 27 August 1971 in Krzysztof Penderecki’s oratorio Utrenja conducted by Zdenĕk Mácal.

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