The choir of the UKE – University Hospital of Hamburg/Germany has 45 long-term members who often are practising doctors already.
The repertoire is wide with Jazz, Gospeil Pop, world music and sacred music.
Conductor David Baaß has composed the welll-known antibiotics-suite (See playlist of UKE) going parallel through music history and the history of invention of the antibiotics – trating pneumonia.
Conductor David Baaß is presented on this website also as pianist and organist.
David Baaß is contributing a lot of music to the UKE – Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg/Germany.
Lobby UKE
He often plays in the grand lobby of the UKE with improvisations about classical and Jazz music. He conducts the choir of MedStudents UKE. For the choir he composed an antibiotics-suite.
David Baaß is also organ player in the Michaeliskirche Hamburg and conducts their youth choir.
Choir of the University of Medical Sciences, founded by Dr. George Fischbach – doctor and conductor in one person, exists since 1959. Choir is an important artistic element of his alma mater, performing at numerous academic events. Takes an active part in the cultural life of the city and the country. The choir has repeatedly regular concerts „Poznań Choral Meetings”, „Musica Sacra”, „Feast Choral”, „Teachers and their choirs”, „Concerts Fair”, „Choirs, Organ and …” and others. Collaborated with the National Philharmonic orchestras in Poznań, Wrocław and Koszalin and the Symphony Orchestra of the Music Academy in Poznan, Chamber Orchestra of the Mieczyslaw Karłowicz National High School of Music in Poznan, Orchestra of the Eighth Day and more recently with the European Medical Students and Doctors’ Orchestra (EMSO 2004) – performing vocal and instrumental works by Handel, Vivaldi, Zwierzchowski, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Kilar, Moniuszko, Czyz, Debski, Stalmierski, Kozub and others. The band has in its repertoire also dozens of a cappella choral works by Polish and other nations composers . The choir has performed for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican and the Belgian royal couple Neerpelt and the President of Hungary in Budapest. Collaborated with distinguished conductors as Henryk Czyż, Renard Czajkowski, Agnieszka Duczmal, Marcin Sompoliński, Volker Hartung and soloists Eve Werke, Grazyna Flicińską-Panfil, Antonina Kowtunow, Czeslaw Niemen, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Maja Urbanek and others.
The choir has won 17 top prizes and awards choral competitions and festivals in Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Hungary. Also performed in Great Britain, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. The choir has made several recordings for radio and television in the country and abroad. In 1995 choir recorded the first team in the history of the CD. Another – with a repertoire of Christmas carols – was recorded in November 1999 by the Choir „Graduate” Medical Academy. Choir last album was recorded in 2008. This time is based on the popular music, but it appeared on folk songs and sacred.
In 1997, in addition to 40-year tradition of cultivating student choral group – created the Choir „Graduate” UM, which consists of young academics Academy of Medical Sciences in Poznan and health care – and choir graduates of the Medical University.
The Choir of the Medical University of Bialystok is one of the oldest university choirs in Poland. It was founded in 1951 by a group of students of medicine – music enthusiasts. It belongs to the category of mixed choirs and consists both of students of the Medical University and young doctors. The repertoire contains not only great oratorio works but also sacred and secular a cappella compositions ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary times, including some first performances. The Choir cooperates with the Bialystok Philharmonic Orchestra on a regular basis. For many years the Choir has taken part in numerous international festivals and competitions as well as in prestigious concerts both in Poland and abroad (e.g. Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia). In 2013 Choir of the Medical University of Bialystok won the First Place in International Choir Festival VRATISLAVIA SACRA (Wroclaw, Poland) and was awarded with the Silver Diploma at the VII Rimini International Choral Competition (Rimini, Italy). In 2014 Choir of the Medical University of Bialystok was awarded with the Gold Diploma and won the First Place at the IV International Choral Competition “Kaunas Cantat” (Kaunas, Lithuania).
Founded in 1946, the Gdańsk Medical University Choir is one of the oldest and most successful academic choirs in Poland. Over the course of our many years of operation, we have performed in dozens of countries around the world in Europe, Asia and North America. Our group has won top awards at numerous Polish and foreign choir festivals. We sing a cappella pieces as well as great oratorios and cantatas. Our repertoire includes works by many Polish and foreign composers from different musical styles and eras, such as church music, spirituals and gospel, as well as music from films and musicals. When producing oratorio works, we cooperate with many cultural institutions, especially with the Baltic State Philharmonic and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic in Sopot. Our members are mainly students from the Medical University of Gdańsk, but we also have people from outside this group who have decided to stay with us longer and have been singing with us for many years. The artistic director and conductor of the choir is Błażej Połom.
The Choir of the Medical University of Lodz was founded in March 2005 on the initiative of the Rector’s authorities.
The conductor of the choir from the beginning of its existence is a respected and well-known conductor, professor of art Anna Domańska, head of the Department of Choral Conducting at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice “Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz” in Lodz.
The choir’s president is Katarzyna Starosta, Justyna Przytulska, assistant conductor, and Jakub Czech, is the assistant accompanist.
The choir’s repertoire is varied – from Polish folk, gospel and sacred music to, finally, popular music.
The members of the team are students of the Medical University and its graduates – already working professionally as doctors, pharmacists or paramedics.
The Choir of the Medical University of Lodz adds splendor to all celebrations related to the University – ceremonies of awarding diplomas to Graduates, scientific conferences, as well as ceremonies of awarding Doctorates Honoris Causa of the Medical University of Lodz. In addition, the Choir of the Medical University of Lodz conducts extensive concert activity both in Lodz and throughout Poland.
The people who make up the band are – thanks to such frequent meetings – not only choirmates, but a group of really good friends. The bond between them is strengthened thanks to workshop and integration trips as well as trips to competitions and festivals in Poland and abroad.
Thanks to intensive work, the choir has already won many awards and distinctions.
Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy. 1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist. 1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute. He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites. He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering system and he introduced cinema therapy to a psychosomatic hospital. Since 1982 he manages an event service (see clients list). In his youth he played a pneumatic organ in a church in Hamburg Altona for 12 years. Since his workshop with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross he studied spirituality intensively and finally wrote a film script about the communication with the spiritual world according to the book of Johannes Greber. He produced many hundreds of films for his youtube account and other places. In 2011 he moved to Switzerland (with two interruptions in Germany) where he likes to hike in the mountains.
in baroque dance-groupEugen Onegin Teatro alla Scala 1986 Solo-StatistSinger in Opera-Choir (top)Journalist for Main-Post music criticsTexter for cartoons of Rippenspreizer12 years organ @Mennonitengemeinde HH-AltonaJob in storage companyJob as barista
Ellenberger worked as a waiter fully employed @ maritim hotel Würzburg for some months.
