Esther Tschimpke has been a permanent member of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin since the 2024–25 season. After her early musical training in the Hannover Girls’ Choir (1999–2010), she completed her vocal training at the University of Music, Drama, and Media Hannover with Prof. Mechthild Kerz (Bachelor of Education) and with Prof. Markus Schäfer and Prof. Gudrun Pelker in the master’s program “Singing in Freelance Work.”

She has gained a wide range of ensemble experience throughout Germany (including the Rundfunkchor Berlin and SWR Vokalensemble) and is a founding member and first soprano of the multi-award-winning VOKTETT HANNOVER. As a soloist, she regularly performs in concerts and operas with ensembles such as Concerto Ispirato, la festa musicale, and the Hannoversche Hofkapelle. In the field of new music, she has performed with the SWR Experimentalstudio at the Lange Nono Nacht 2024, as well as in Berio’s Sinfonia at Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

What does it mean to you to be part of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin?

It is a great honor for me to be able to sing in this wonderful ensemble. I felt very welcome right from my very first rehearsal as a guest. This feeling of having found both a human and musical home has accompanied me in my daily work ever since, and I look forward to the challenges we will face together and the moments of magnificent sound.