History of the choir

The EnChoir Vienna was founded by the Student Representatives of the University of Vienna’s Department for English and American Studies back in the year 2012. During the past twelve years, the EnChoir has seen many changes: new singers joined, old members left and yet some remained – even until today!

But not only singers, also a range of conductors have accompanied the choir during these years – until, in 2017, Cordelia Vana became the artistic director of the EnChoir Vienna, initially alongside former conductor and voice trainer Julia Nobis-Neumüller. Having started out with a much smaller choir and, above all, a signifi cantly and disproportionately smaller Tenors’ and Bass’ section, in the past seven years, Cordelia Vana has developed the EnChoir into what it is today: a great, beautifully balanced, harmonious and ambitious concert choir.

In mid-2022 the EnChoir Vienna decided to take the leap and form an independent choir association, confidently embracing all the possibilities and uncertainties that this step held – and still holds – for it. The EnChoir was able to welcome Miriam Laznia as assistant conductress and deputy artistic director in 2023, and is now more than happy for her to have become such an important part of the choir.

Today, the EnChoir Vienna consists of approximately sixty members – a fantastic, international and diverse mix of people – and is characterised by its young and open dynamic as well as its incredibly broad repertoire: not willing to force itself into the narrow corset of one genre or era, the EnChoir Vienna ambitiously attempts to master pieces from the Renaissance to 21st-century alternative pop.

Together, the EnChoir Vienna has successfully mastered bad times – the Covid-Pandemic with sing-alongs in the digital spheres of Zoom or the airy rehearsal spaces of the Vienna Prater’s Jesuitenwiese – as well as the brilliantly good times, when the EnChoir reached the finals of Cup der Chöre and got to perform at planet.tt/Gasometer in early 2020. The EnChoir Vienna has come a long way – and great plans still lie ahead!