The a-cappella group ‘5Pac’ was founded at the Freiburg University of Music in 2016 and had its first public performance in December of the same year. Since then, the ensemble has sung at numerous, regional and international concerts, for example at the renowned a cappella festival 'Vocalmente' in Fossano (Italy). This was followed by participation in workshops with some of the scene's driving forces, including Jan Bürger (Maybebop), Kim Nazarian (New York Voices) or Peder Karlsson (Ex-The Real Group). The group is also regularly supported by Julian Knörzer (UNDUZO). Their repertoire consists of a large number of self-written arrangements and original compositions, covering a wide range from jazz to pop to metal rock.

Neele Pfleiderer – soprano
Raffaela Dilles – mezzo soprano
David Brooke – tenor
Sebastian Oberlin – baritone
Paul Dreßler – bass

Dedicated to a-cappella-singing in all shapes these four young women are specialists in creating sound worlds ranging from classical and international folk music to pop and jazz.

The multi-award-winning ensemble offers an authentic live experience and complements the high musical level of the four singers with apt staging and a pinch of humor. Founded in 2009, the ensemble soon rose to become an important part of the German-speaking a cappella scene. Since 2018, the ensemble has been on the road with a fully professional lineup.

Nicole Hitz
Aude Freyburger
Daniela Villiger
Editha Lambert

German pop music without any instruments.

Johannes Berning, Adrian Goldner, Johannes Jäck, Moritz Nautscher and Florian Clasen show that modern a-cappella singing can be more than imitating instruments, playing covers and oldies as the one about a cactus on the balcony.

Instead, these five gentlemen prefer to write their songs themselves, charmingly taking the audience on a musical sightseeing tour through their student life. They tell their own stories and instantly create catchy tunes.

The band’s credo - catchy melodies and smart lyrics paired with a wink and self-irony. Telling stories from everyday life, sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholic, they sing about love, life, friendship or just all the things that otherwise happen between people in this crazy world.

Johannes Berning

Adrian Goldner

Johannes Jäck

Moritz Nautscher

Florian Clasen

laulaa is a vocal ensemble from Berlin. The five women - Fina, Mira, Neele, Josephine and Johanna - joined forces while studying music in 2022. Characteristic for the ensemble is the broad repertoire of self-written or specially arranged songs, stylistically ranging from pop to jazz to songs from the folk genre. Laulaa does without instruments.

In addition to playing with the voice, the women are concerned with pushing the harmonies to the limit and combining the complex possibilities of vocal sound production. In doing so, they are not afraid to take risks and rediscover the versatility and fascination of the voice as an instrument.

Founded by a group of a-cappella freaks & friends in Freiburg, Neilon became an a-cappella collective including young singers from all over Germany.

More than four years, the group has been grooving its way through a cappella festivals all over Europe and has always infected the audience with its enthusiasm for singing. Neilon has been coached by well-known artists such as Kim Nazarian (New York Voices), Merel Martens (Maze Voices) and Tobias Hug (The Swingles). Their program leads through the jazz and pop history of the last decades.

Jazz singers at heart, the four members of vocal quartet Åkervinda share a deep love of folk music and give new life to the Scandinavian folk tunes in their original and modern interpretations. The group released their second album 'Förgänglighet’ in Spring 2018. It was nominated for a Swedish Grammis in the category “Folk music of the year”.

Förgänglighet - the passing of life - is a tribute to all the things that withers away and a celebration of life in summer as well as autumn. Like so many storytellers and artists before them, Åkervinda carries tales of women throughout the ages, embodied in a visual musical live performance.

Founded in 2005 in Freiburg, Germany, Acoustic Instinct is a perfectly matching duo having played more than 500 shows since 2009.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, South Korea, Japan or the USA - Paul Brenning and Julian Knörzer inspire their audience all over the world. Due to their flexibility and adaptability, they have been working with other artists, choirs and bands from Germany and abroad.

Acoustic Instinct combines the art of human beatboxing with elements of a-cappella, slapstick/comedy, acting, mime and improvisation. The duo effortlessly adapts to both, the venue and the audience, and lets them become part of the show. They focus on unusual sounds, original song ideas, spontaneity and joy in their play.

With this variety Acoustic Instinct opens a world full of creativity and inspires more and more fans with their surprising expressions. The age of the audience doesn’t matter at all…Their joy of improvisation creates a unique sound experience. Without instruments, out of the moment, Paul and Julian create music born out of the "Acoustic Instinct“!

Paul Brenning

Julian Knörzer

German pop music without any instruments.

Johannes Berning, Adrian Goldner, Johannes Jäck, Moritz Nautscher and Florian Clasen show that modern a-cappella singing can be more than imitating instruments, playing covers and oldies as the one about a cactus on the balcony.

Instead, these five gentlemen prefer to write their songs themselves, charmingly taking the audience on a musical sightseeing tour through their student life. They tell their own stories and instantly create earwigs.

The band’s credo - catchy melodies and smart lyrics paired with a wink and self-irony. Telling stories from everyday life, sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholic, they sing about love, life, friendship or just all the things that otherwise happen between people in this crazy world.

Johannes Berning

Adrian Goldner

Johannes Jäck

Moritz Nautscher

Florian Clasen

Some vocal ensembles focus on early music, others on contemporary pieces, some groups are devoted to jazz, others to classical choral literature, and well, all of them do Christmas songs. Several try pop, others specialize in a sacred repertoire or sing their own music. Then there is this one ensemble, that simply sings quite everything. Founded in 1997 in Helsinki, it calls itself Rajaton, which means "boundless" in Finnish.

There's no better way to describe the ensemble's approach to music. Their musical backgrounds range from classical to folk, jazz, pop and rock. The three women and three men have performed all over the world, in the U.S., Canada and Australia, in concert halls, churches and jazz festivals, singing everything from sacred music to pop hits. In fact, it's hard to think of a style of music that Rajaton couldn't make their own, or imagine an audience that they couldn't reach with their music. With more than 100 concerts and workshops a year, Rajaton offers a diverse repertoire; Due to their vocal style and stage presence, the group has become a worldwide phenomenon.

The essences of their success - deep passion for the choral art, coupled with the joy of singing and an engaging manner that creates spark.

The Beatbox Collective, individually they have won almost every beatbox competition on the planet. Together, this vocal supergroup creates a wall of sound that simply has to be seen to be believed. 'How amazing was that? That was unbelievable' (Chris Evans).

Featuring a team of the UK's top vocal artists, this is a show of mind-blowing sound, energy and beats not to be missed. 'If you didn't think you were a beatbox fan before, they will prove you wrong'

The Jazzchor der Uni Bonn looks back on a 25-year history. Dressed in black and white back then to today’s blue, gray and gold - one thing never changed: the choir offers the opportunity to share the joy of singing and experiencing various (jazz) harmonies among all students and other music enthusiasts.

Since 2012, the choir has been directed by Jan-Hendrik Herrmann, who successfully unifies the choir's sound despite the constantly fluctuating instrumentation. He also wrote most of the arrangements that the choir sings. The repertoire ranges from rock and pop icons like Queen and Michael Jackson to jazz arrangements based on pieces of Kurt Elling and current artists like Jacob Collier, Accent and Imogen Heap.

Homogeneous and individual, light and pithy, precise and free - these facets build the sound of Sjaella. The 6 singers have found their common path years ago, but they are still discovering new branches. They love musical diversity, are open minded and have the courage to stretch boundaries. Their repertoire is correspondingly broad and they find home in a wide variety of genres.

This versatility and the closeness to their audience provide engagements at renowned music festivals at home and abroad, guest appearances on radio and television as well as 1st prizes at international competitions for vocal music.

Fuß&Friends is a band project from Dreisamtal, initiated by Christoph Fuß. Founded in 2016, all musicians knew each other but never played together before.

The versatile line-up with three singers and eight instrumentalists provides great variety. Since 2021 Anette Riesigerer and Bernhard Maier enhance the band. Anette is well known in the region and has been performing as a vocal coach and professional for many years. She gives the band with your unique voice a whole new sound which Bernhard complements with his saxophone.

As all musicians have different styles, an incredibly varied program can be presented. The band therefore developed their very own arrangements, so the songs could also be given their own and new sound.

Uli Führe, born in 1957, is a composer and Alemannia songwriter. He lives in Buchenbach, Germany and is course instructor in voice training for choir directors, music teachers and educators; He taught at the Musikhochschule Freiburg for 16 years an held a professorship at the Hochschule Düsseldorf for Choral Pedagogy until 2014.

Versatile publications:

Over 100 publications for female, male and mixed choir, (Tango animato, Süßer Mond, Das Heine-Chorbuch, Hie und da, Summa Summarum, Ukulala, Er und sie, ...). Vocalicals 1 and 2 - textbooks for singing in several voices, jazz canons (Wenn s gut geht, Allesimada, Hallo Django), CDs Muul uf, Dank Hebel, Ikarus, and many others.

Kirsten Ecke is honorary professor of harp at the University of Music in Freiburg and lives in Kirchzarten. She was solo harpist at the ‘Südthüringisches Staatstheater Meiningen and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1997 she has played in a duo with Eva-Christina Schönweiß (DSO Berlin), with whom she recorded several pieces on the GENUIN and Capriccio labels. Her latest CD called ‘Auf dem Weg’ was released in January 2022. Kirsten Ecke is a coach and trainer in the areas of performance, stress, burnout prevention and communication.

After his music studies Michael Dinnebier was 1st violinist in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, then 1st concertmaster at the ‘Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz’ in Munich. Since 1999 he is 2nd violin part master of the SWR Symphony Orchestra.

His work as a chamber musician is shown in SWR live broadcasts, radio recordings of chamber music and CD productions for GENUIN. Since 2002 Michael Dinnebier and the pianist Angela-Charlott Linckelmann (Reutlingen) perform as a duo. Furthermore, he has been primarius in the Bertold Quartet since 2008. He is co-founder of the Valser Musiksommer (CH) and initiated the concert series LUMIK in Kirchzarten with his wife Kirsten Ecke.

As a duo, Kirsten Ecke and Michael Dinnebier have been playing together since 2005.

The MGV Liederkranz Zarten e.V. has been around for over 70 years and has always been a place for community, meeting, socializing, as well as a place for home and culture. Our association consists of three choirs that always work closely together and support each other at events, concerts and performances. These are the Männergesangverein, the Gemischter Chor and the gospel choir "Zarduna Sing and Swing". Like their repertoire, their club life is lively and varied.
In the past two years, despite lockdowns and restrictions, the Zarten choirs have always acted flexibly and performed in a wide variety of formations - in duos, quartets and double quartets, at the Maisingen, Advent singing, on various church occasions and at the past two editions of the Black Forest Voices Festival.

Conductor: Christian Nagel

Even if the current program of these four Black Forest guys is limited to the presentation of their all time favorite songs, the topics from everday life in the native forests are well recognizable: wine, women, singing, good food, worrying about money and well-being in general.

With guitars, percussion, chimes and melodica, Georg Stelz, Christoph Hog, Tobias Schwab und Karl Willmann sing multi-voice, about life and suffering in the Black Forest, about the quirky and peculiar residents - humorous and true.

Many familiar songs played on stage, will invite the audience to sing along, e.g. the young classics ‘Sellerie’ and ‘The Singing Travel Guide’ from their current album ‘Stau lau’. But also new thoughts, partly philosophical, will gradually flow into the program: A high-tech washing machine asks about the meaning of life, which has already been fomulated by grandma: ‘Mer kann itt nu (you should not always sit at home), ‘mer muen au mol’ (we need to go to see the Wilde Wälder)!!!