Christian Mücke comes from Franconia. He was a member of the Windsbach Boys’ Choir from 4th to 7th grade. While studying German language and literature, which he completed in 1993, he took regular singing lessons in Würzburg. His musical training was influenced by historical performance practice. He has been a member of the RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin since 1993, and since then he has also performed as a soloist in oratorios in Berlin churches.

Together with architecture journalist Ulrich Conrads, he developed the Forum Concerts for the RIAS Chamber Choir forum, which he conceived between 2004 and 2011 and to which he still feels connected. Most recently, he performed at a Forum Concert in fall 2022 with a quartet in a program he designed around Orlando’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection.

What was your most memorable experience during your time in the choir?

Ernst Krenek’s Lamentationes from 1940/41 were long considered unperformable. Under the direction of Marcus Creed, however, they were performed. The concert in the Romanesque Abbaye aux Dames Saintes at Philippe Herreweghe’s festival in Saintes in the late 1990s was the most impressive musical experience of my time with the RIAS Chamber Choir. Marcus Creed had patiently familiarized the RIAS Chamber Choir with the powerful musical language of the work, and the nighttime performance in the cathedral in front of an audience of impressed early music specialists was the highlight of a series of performances of this piece.