“Singing Christmas”
Family & School Concert
Classics of the Christmas season – from festive to contemplative, as well-known as they are upbeat. The audience is also invited to sing along; selected songs will be made available on rsb-online.de before the concert.
Steffen Tast
Conductor
Steffen Tast - Conductor
Steffen Tast was born in 1965 in Berlin.
After studying violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin in 1987, he became a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). In the same year, his interest in contemporary music led him to the chamber ensemble “Kammerensemble Neue Musik” Berlin (KNM).
In recent years, he has been appearing increasingly as a conductor. Initially, the focus was on working with KNM Berlin. This was followed by invitations as a conductor with the Ensemble Oriol, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Ensemble Modern, and the Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart. Since 2005 he has been regularly conducting chamber orchestra concerts with members of the RSB and their orchestra academy, and also symphony concerts as part of the family- and school student concerts of the orchestra since 2014. In his home village of Klein Leppin in north-western Brandenburg, he was one of the initiators of the project “Dorf macht Oper” (“Village makes opera”) in 2005 and has since been its musical director.
Steffen Tast is involved as mentor in the orchestra academy of the RSB.
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Rundfunk-Kinderchor des Händel-Gymnasiums
In dulci jubilo – now sing and be glad! At this concert, the RSB will be supported by the Radio Children’s Choir of the Händel-Gymnasium. The audience is also cordially invited to sing along when Christmas classics are performed: from festive and contemplative to classical and upbeat. You can look forward to a musical Advent Sunday with well-known and new Christmas compositions.
To help you prepare, you will find a selection of songs and texts here.
Audio “Morgen Kinder wirds’ was geben
Audio “O Du Fröhliche”
Audio “o Tannenbaum”