We invite you to our first concert, VIGIL (Latin: night watch), on Saturday, July 5th, at Berlin's Osterkirche. The performance will be presented by the 35 singers of the Triadischer Chor and its two founders, who together will introduce a new style of choral singing. The foundation for this new approach is specially created music that promotes silence and the art of listening (to one another).

Embedded in a nighttime, dreamlike atmosphere, you can expect a concert experience with touching sounds, melodies, and voices, as well as a contemplative calm that also serves as a conscious response to time constraints, noise, and current social tensions.

The Osterkirche opens its doors at 9 p.m. and invites you to an atmospheric setting with a light refreshment. At 10 p.m., the one-hour night concert VIGIL begins, featuring the songs of the Triadischer Chor under the direction of Nils Jensen, intertwined with pieces by Lyhrus, played on his concert piano.

You are cordially invited to this extraordinary concert experience in many ways!

Cantus Academy
Night Concert VIGIL
Triadischer Chor, Lyhrus (clavier), Nils Jensen (conductor)

Sa, July 5, 2025, Evans. Osterkirche, 10 p.m. (opening at 9 p.m.)
Samoastraße 14, 13353 Berlin Wedding
(U9 Amrumer Straße, S Wedding)

Admission €10, general admission
More information at https://cantus.academy

Listening (to each other) – a precious commodity in these times, a commodity to be defended and reclaimed. At the Cantus Academy, this listening is also the foundation of our work: before singing comes listening. Vigilia, our new choir project, starts on April 23 and 26 in Berlin. Information and registration at https://cantus.academy.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone on stage during the concert on 22nd March 2025 at the Französische Kirche Potsdam, it was a joy to listen and to watch while accompanying.
In paradisum (excerpt) from Requiem, performed by the Lyhrus Ensemble, Kammerchor ChorWerk Potsdam and directed by Hans-Joachim Lustig during the second concert of the REQUIEM concert series 2024 / 2025, ›Lacrymosa‹.

Today I finished the lyrics for a favourite of mine, a Triadic Chant called Not ours which I wrote for Vigilia, the first project of Cantus Academy. Though the topic of the lyrics may be rather serious, I love the music as I think there is actually some hope and warmth in it. [Demo version: The choir is recorded by using a studio library]

What takes a long time finally becomes good: it took me almost half a year to find a moment to edit the footage of our latest live concert. On 28th September 2024 we performed at the Kulturraum Zwinglikirche Berlin before an enthusiastic audience.
The singers were absolutely great and heartwarming, I was just proud and grateful to be part of their performance.
I uploaded 5 videos here, three with the full ensemble, one just with me playing the reed organ, and for the first time Petra's and Isa's duet Two of us, which was loved by so many people in the audience.
Enjoy!

Vlog series on Triadic Chants (1). Triadic Chants are works I compose for mixed choirs to establish a new contemplative way of choral singing. In this series I share excerpts of the music and some thoughts about new ways of choral singing.

Cantus Academy is going to start in 2025 with a concert project called Vigilia – A nocturnal rite for singers and listeners.
Currently I'm composing the music for this project; on Saturday, 1st March 2025 we're going to invite interested and experienced choir singers to join us for a kick-off event called Prolog. It will take place at the Osterkirche Berlin.
Further information on cantus.academy.

I met Nils Jensen, choir leader and orchestra conductor, Berlin based like me, while preparing a common project. We got along very well from the beginning. Though both of us work on different musical spheres, too, for us, the sound of choral voices is the most original and beautiful you can think of in music made by human beings.
We felt the urge to find a new approach to this beauty by using a new music, by performing demanding rehearsals and by a contemplative way of creating concerts. In September 2024, this need led us to launch the Cantus Academy, a space for Triadic Chants.
Yesterday we finally launched the website, you may visit us now on cantus.academy. It is still in German, an English version to follow soon.
As well as information about our first concert project, Vigilia. Join us there!

– in German with English subtitles –
One week before the opening performance of our concert series REQUIEM on 16th November 2024 I'm talking about the recent rehearsals, my expectations, my joy that it's finally starting ...

Here comes a new trailer for INTROITUS, the first concert from the Lyhrus REQUIEM concert series 2024 / 2025. It's going to be an extraordinary concert, so the Lyhrus Ensemble, the Bessiner Kammerchor, Nils Jensen, and Lyhrus would like to welcome you on 16th November 2025 at 8pm in the Osterkirche Berlin. Enjoy this new impression of the music – and hopefully meet you soon!