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The QuerChorallen, Berlin<\/strong> are a gay lesbian a capella choir with around 50 singers. Whether Orlando di Lasso or Mikis Theodorakis, Fanny Hensel or Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor, Abba or Rammstein, folkloristic or contemporary music – we love to sing from the heart. Most of the time we sing in four voices, sometimes in eight, from the capital D to the two-stroked G, in German, English, Roman, Slavic and other languages. We sing about spring, about the aurora borealis, about music and silence, with love. We sing with great passion.<\/p>\n The choir was founded in 2005 by Nives Brzi\u010d. For many years Kristina Hays took care of our musical development, since 2017 in a leadership tandem. Jaret Choolun has been with us since 2019, and Andrea Eckhardt since 2022, after we said goodbye to Kristina with a heavy heart for family reasons. She also continues to provide us with practice recordings across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n Various Voices in 2014 in Dublin and 2018 in Munich, Nordakkord \u2013 which is a festival for northern german choirs \u2013 in 2015 in Leipzig, in 2017 in Cologne, in 2019 in Berlin and in 2022 in Bremen, – we enthusiastically participate in choir festivals and projects of the queer choir scene. A special highlight was our anniversary concert in 2016, for the 10th anniversary of QuerChorallen.<\/p>\n The Various Voices festival means to us a political statement for queer rights, an international stage for queer choir culture and visibility, a wonderful opportunity to meet friendly people from many countries… and \u2013 of course \u2013 having much fun together!<\/p>\n