Prof. Tobias Walenciak

  • Works as a choir conductor in Berlin with the Vocantare chamber choir and the Bancanta mixed choir
  • Since the winter semester of 2022, visiting professor and course director of the choir conducting class, previously many years as a university lecturer at the UdK and the HfM Hanns Eisler
  • Several award-winning students at international conducting competitions
  • Received important influences through TENSO funding and close collaboration with Simon Halsey in the context of (opera) choir projects at the Berlin Philharmonic
  • Many years of experience as a conductor of children's and youth choirs
  • Commitment to Berlin's choral life through work as a lecturer, jury member and association member
  • Concert tours to France, China, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia
  • World premieres and first performances with composers such as Charlotte Seither, Frank Schwemmer, David Lang and Jonathan Dove
  • Collaboration as conductor and rehearsal director for the Rundfunkchor and the Vocalconsort Berlin, among others, as well as engagements at the Staatsoper zu Berlin, the Kammeroper Rheinsberg and the Konzerthaus Berlin, among others
  • Close connection to the RIAS Chamber Choir, where regular internships and musical assistantships for choir conducting students at the Hanns Eisler School of Music take place
  • Close network in the large Berlin amateur choir scene and collaborations for students with, among others, the Berlin Philharmonic Choir, Cantus Domus, and Ensemberlino Vocale
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