choirmaster/conductor Florian Wilkes

 

“I have rarely seen such an exact conductor. He enables the chorister to develop freely on an absolutely secure basis.” 

Wilhelm Füchsl (member of the concert choir ‘Rias Kammerchor’ - Berlin) about Florian Wilkes

 

Repertoire

 

Since 1990 Florian Wilkes has the following Works in his conducting repertoire: 

• Händel, Messiah (in German and English)
  
• Bach, Christmas Oratorio
  
• Mozart, Requiem, Coronation Mass, Sparrow Mass
  
• Rossini, Messe Solennelle (conducted from the piano)
  
• Saint-Saëns, Oratorio de Noël
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata on the 51^st Psalm
  
• Rheinberger Mass in G minor and the Mass in A major
  
• Fauré, Messe basse
  
• Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
  
• Haydn, The Seasons
  
• Masses, cantatas, motets by Schütz, Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Bruckner etc.
  
• Bach, Piano concerto in F minor BWV 1056
  
• Mozart, Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra KV 299
  
• Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G minor KV 550
  
• and others
  

 

Florian Wilkes was one of the first in Germany to discover Mel Bonis’ Works for choir.

 

 

Choirs

 

Florian Wilkes established and directed the following choirs temporarily or permanently: 

• the choir ‘St. Joseph im Fließ’
  
• the Sing-Akademie Berlin, founded in 1791
  
• the Choir Academy Berlin, founded in 2000
  
• the Meistersinger of Berlin 

 

 

Orchestras

 

Among others, Wilkes conducted the following orchestras:

• the Berlin Baroque
  
• the Prussian Chamber Orchestra 
  
• the Chamber Orchestra of Berlin
  
• the Berliner Symphoniker (Symphony Orchestra of Berlin)
  
• the Concentus L´Aureus di Roma
  

 

 

Performance venues

 

To name a few, concerts were given in the following locations:

• Berlin’s Philharmonics (main concert hall and chamber music hall)
  
• Cathedral of Berlin
  
• Berlin, Cathedral of St Hedwig 
  
• Rome, Chiesa Valdese
  
• Paris, Notre Dame de Paris
  
• Paris, Sainte-Trinité
  
• Krakow, Church of St Mary
  
• Warsaw, Pallottine monastery
  
• Wroclaw, Sandkirche
  

 

  

Composition

 

Florian Wilkes writes music for a wide range of instruments (composer), for example:

• An American String Quartet 9/11, For the Time of Penitence
  
• Solo Sonata for Violoncello
  
• transcriptions and compositions for choir
  

 

 

Press

 

Wilkes’ multifaceted work was very positively reviewed by the national press. The Tagesspiegel in Berlin portrayed him in connection with Mozart’s Requiem which he performed with the ‘Berlin Baroque’. His Works, including those for choir, have been played on the radio and on German television. Some concerts have been broadcasted live on the radio.

 

 

Discography

 

• Live recording of Rossini’s Messe Solennelle, conducted from the piano in Berlin’s Philharmonics (discography)
  
• CD with his own Works for choir, violoncello and organ (discography) 
  
• Music of the Baroque for trumpet and organ and his own chorale preludes with Professor Konradin Groth, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) (discography)

 

 

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