As recently the Federal Association of German Singing Teachers – that sounds a bit threatening for many – held its 33rd annual congress in Karlsruhe, one could hear a glamorous opening lecture by Eckart Altenmüller, who did research on “Neurobiological effects of making music on healthy children and on children with developmental disorders”. They talked about “circle singing” and the “healthy maintenance of the singer’s body”, about “balance and synergy” and how to find “the inner center via voice training”. And you may have met a somewhat agitated professor who was tearing his hair out because of the condition of our children’s choirs: Hanno Müller-Brachmann, a proven opera baritone, singing professor at the Karlsruhe Music Academy and also the honorary first chairman of the girls’ and boys’ choirs, which were founded in 2006 as a singing school.Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe“.
Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe has financial worries – like many children’s choirs – culture
