Leipzig, Hamburg and Halle – Ticket sales for our self-organised events are already in full swing and the lines are running hot. Get your tickets quickly:

Pauluskirche Halle (Saale), on December 9, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.

Laeiszhalle Hamburg on December 11, 2025, at 8 p.m.

Ev. Reformierte Kirche zu Leipzig on December 16, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.

For the third time now, our annual events also include the Advent concert at Pauluskirche Halle/Saale. This year, not only is the program different from that of the concerts in Leipzig and Hamburg, but it also has a special theme that is very dear to our hearts: inclusion.

Together with Universitätsmedizin Halle, we have spent the last few months developing a concept for a hearing-accessible Advent concert. In doing so, we have delved deeper and deeper into an art form that is probably still new to many of you: deaf performance. And it is precisely for this that we have the pleasure of introducing Inna Shparber to you today. She is an extraordinary artist who lives and breathes this form of artistic expression. And she herself can best explain what that means exactly:

"I am a deaf performance artist from Berlin. In my performances, I combine music, sign language, and visual poetry to create new forms of expression and perception. Since 2021, I have been developing deaf performances for deaf and hearing audiences for various projects and events. While interpreting between spoken and sign languages is primarily about linguistic mediation that enables communication between hearing and deaf people, deaf performance describes an art form. Deaf artists use sign language as a creative expression of emotion, rhythm, and movement. Here, in addition to translation, the aesthetic and cultural impact is also in the foreground."

There is hardly a supermarket in Germany that has not already decorated its shelves with Christmas treats in September. That's alright, we think! Because isn't the Advent season one of the best times of the year? We take an example at the markets and have already started pre-sales for our traditional Christmas concerts. We look forward to seeing you in this year's program "Hodie Christus natus est" on December 11 in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and on December 16 in the Ev. Reformierte Kirche in Leipzig. Here you can get your tickets:

Hamburg

Leipzig

We will also sing another concert in the Pauluskirche in Halle/Saale this year. Here we have planned a special event for December 9, about which we will soon inform you in a separate newsletter. Stay tuned!

One more time you can see and hear her with us: our Maria. Last year, we recorded Max Reger’s “Nachtlied” with her, which was released in June. And now, there’s something even more exciting! We made a special trip to Karlsruhe to shoot a music video with her. Our thanks go to the Christuskirche in Karlsruhe, which gave us this extremely beautiful backdrop for the shoot. We look forward to seeing you again!

Are you in the holiday spirit yet? It took us a while this year, as our minds were occupied with anniversary reflections and finding a new alto. To get into the Christmas mood, we rehearsed for our concerts surrounded by fairy lights, candles, and punch. It worked!

Our Christmas program is ready and couldn’t be more tranquil. This year, the concerts center on Maria, a refugee who gave birth to the Son of God under adverse circumstances. Between our Elisabeth and Friedrich stands a pregnant Maria too, who will soon leave Calmus to welcome her child back home. Our hearts are heavy with both joy and sadness.