On Friday, July 31, 2026, at 7:30 p.m., the Deutsch-Deutsche Kammerchor, conducted by Hannelotte Pardall, will perform alongside Leipzig concert organist Stefan Kießling as part of the “WALCKER PLUS” concert series on the historic Walcker-Seifert organ at St. Antonius Church in Papenburg.
As part of its summer tour, the choir will perform, among other works, Bach’s double-choir motet “Fürchte dich nicht,” Hubert Parry’s “Lord, let me know mine end,” and Ola Gjeilo’s “Unicornis captivatur.” Stefan Kießling will round out the program with organ works tailored to the Walcker organ.

The German-German Chamber Choir grew out of a partnership between the two church-affiliated music conservatories in Halle/Saale and Herford. After German reunification, 60 students from Halle and Herford embarked on a concert tour as the “German-German Chamber Choir,” traveling from Berlin via Rügen and Eiderstedt to Hamburg’s St. Katharinen. What began as a one-time event evolved into a choral project that, under the direction of Prof. Hannelotte Pardall (Hamburg and Saarbrücken), has been taking choral enthusiasts from East and West on a tour through all the federal states and nearly all neighboring countries summer after summer.

Stefan Kießling is a freelance concert organist. He studied organ, piano, and harpsichord at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig, graduating in 2008 with a concert exam. His professional career began in 1999 as an organist at the Klosterkirche in Cottbus; from 2009 to 2018, he served as assistant organist at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig.
His extensive concert schedule, which is documented in detail online, has taken him to over 30 countries on 6 continents worldwide.

Admission to the concert is free; donations to support the work of the Music Support Association are requested at the exit. You are cordially invited!

Text: Ralf Stiewe, Cover photo: Jannis Justus Schäper, Photos: Deutsch-Deutscher Kammerchor