Founded in 1997 in St. Josef by choir director Georg Willen, the choir has since cultivated a wide repertoire of new sacred music, worship songs, gospel music, and secular songs in German and English. In the summer of 2016, Anne-Ilse Placke took over as director, before passing the baton to regional church musician Ralf Stiewe in the fall of 2016.

The choir sings regularly at church services—not only at St. Josef—and once a year as part of a concert featuring all the parish ensembles at St. Antonius.

Samples

Rehearsals are held every Wednesday from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the oratory of St. Josef Parish, Grader Weg 66, Papenburg. The contact person is Ralf Stiewe, r.stiewe@bistum-os.de.