The Verband Deutscher KonzertChöre (VDKC, Association of German Concert Choirs) is a national association with seven state organisations. It represents more than 550 member choirs with more than 30,400 singers. It is a non-profit organisation, which based in

Neuss Neuss (; spelled ''Neuß'' until 1968; li, Nüss ; la, Novaesium) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite Düsseldorf. Neuss is the largest city within the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district. It ...

. The members are concert choirs, oratorio choirs and chamber choirs who perform concerts of high quality, in genres such as

Gregorian Chant Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe durin ...

, Baroque

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

, romantic period

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...

, contemporary

oratorio An oratorio () is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists. Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is mus ...

and choral

gospel music Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music, and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is com ...

History

The association was founded in 1921 as ''Schutzverband Deutscher Konzertgebender Vereine''. It was renamed in 1925 as ''Reichsverband der gemischten Chöre Deutschlands''. It was newly founded after World War II as ''Verband gemischter Chöre Deutschlands'', renamed in 1956 as ''Verband Deutscher Oratorien- und Kammerchöre''. After the reunification of German, a common national organisation was formed, labelled ''Verband Deutscher KonzertChöre''. The national office is in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, led from 2000 by general secretary Ralf Schöne. In 2013, Ekkehard Klemm was elected president of the VDKC.Professor Ekkehard Klemm neuer Präsident des Verbandes Deutscher KonzertChöre
press release 14 May 2013, retrieved 1 February 2017. The organisation offers their members contracts with GEMA and provides advice in artistic, organisational and legal matters. Facts and news around choral concert singing are published in the trade paper Chor und Konzert, once a year. The festival ''Deutsches Chorfestival'' is held irregularly, around four years apart. The association represents the members in the

Deutscher Musikrat The Deutscher Musikrat (DMR, ''German Music Council''; ) is an umbrella organization for music associations and the 16 music councils of the German federal states.musikrat.deÜberblick über Organisationsstruktur des DMR(retrieved on 10 May 2019) ...

(German Music Council).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Verband Deutscher Konzertchöre Music organisations based in Germany 1921 establishments in Germany Non-profit organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia