HAW Hamburg Choir
Roughly 140 students, alumni, employees, professors and former employees sing in the HAW Hamburg choir. Uschi Krosch has been the choir director since it was founded in 2011.
In addition to the winter and summer concerts, which are each prepared over the course of a semester, the choir performs regularly at HAW Hamburg events, providing the musical part of the programme.
All students and employees who want to sing with others – or just try it out – are welcome to be part of the choir. Prior experience is not required! Male voices are particularly welcome.
Rehearsal times in winter semester 2026/27
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The HAW Hamburg Choir will once again be rehearsing a major work during the 2026/27 winter semester. The theme for the coming semester is ‘On the Horizon’.
On the Horizon – What lies ahead on the horizon? What are our hopes for our planet? How can we get involved? What gives us encouragement? For her composition ‘On the Horizon’ (2025), the Australian-American composer Melissa Dunphy has collaborated with a youth choir to develop lyrics that explore these questions. Her music is deeply emotional, playful, heartfelt and full of energy. The individual movements find a musical expression all of their own for the thematic content: contemplative, encouraging, lyrical, dramatic and dance-like.
The instrumentation for choir and brass quintet, timpani, percussion and piano is extraordinary, imaginative and surprises with its distinctive, varied timbres. In her compositions, Melissa Dunphy draws on the communicative power of music and the musical exploration of current, real-life issues. The programme also features shorter works by the American composer Jennifer Lucy Cook and the Australian composer Dan Walker.
The choir is accompanied by a brass quintet comprising students from the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, timpani, percussion and Gerrit Netzlaff on the piano.
The next concerts are planned for February 12 and 13, 2027.
Rehearsals start on 07.10.2026, 19:30, Alexanderstraße 1, Assembly Hall
Open rehearsals for new singers will be held on 07.10.2026 and 14.10.2026.
New singers are welcome. No previous experience is required.
You need to register via the choir website, even if you sang in the choir last semester: www.haw-chor.com
Choir projects
Each semester we learn new pieces that are performed in a final concert together with professional musicians. Smaller compositions and pieces are curated and performed in summer based on a particular theme and cover a rich spectrum from jazz, to pop, to power metal.
In the winter semester the choir delights its audiences with bigger contemporary compositions, premieres of new works, or classical compositions.
Donate to the choir's fundraising society Donate to the choir's fundraising society
The HAW Hamburg choir needs money to do its work – for example, to borrow or buy sheet music, and to pay the fees of the various musicians it collaborates with. This is why the Förderverein des Chores der HAW Hamburg e.V. (Fundraising Society for the HAW Hamburg Choir) was founded. HAW Hamburg supports its choir to the best of its abilities, but smaller donations are also welcome so that we can initiate new and exciting projects each semester.
Have we convinced you? Then feel free to make a payment:
Recipient: Verein zur Förderung des Chores der HAW Hamburg e.V.
IBAN: DE46440100460170618464
BIC: PBNKDEFF
All of the money goes to support the choir's activities. Because we are a non-profit society, we will gladly issue you a receipt for donations over €50. You can send a mail requesting your receipt to .
Thank you for supporting us!
Contact information
Uschi Krosch
Choir director
HAW Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Petra Naujoks
petra.naujoks (at) haw-hamburg (dot) de
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