As Orfeó said, for this date, the university musical training had chosen ‘Ein deutsches Requiem’, by Brahms, “one of the most interesting symphonic-choral works of all times, that means a reflexive and relaxing singing about death and mourning”.

What’s more, the University Choral Society of Valencia invited to this show, that also performed in the Palau de la Música of València on Wednesday 16, two notable German groups: the Kammerchor Der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar and the Orchester Göttinger Musikfreunde (OGM), that participated in the concert along with the soloists Lavinia Dames and Alik Abdukayumov, directed by Javier Huerta Gimeno.

This concert is part of the international activity of the choir, that throughout their career history have travelled to the USA, the Philippines, Czech Republic, India, China, Russia, Norway, and most of all European countries. Next December, the OUV has announced that they will travel to Germany to interpret along with the OGM the ‘Mesías’ by Händel directed by Francesc Valldecabres.

The OUV is one of the most notorious choir entities from the Valencian outlook and will develop a concert season and a complete annual cultural project. Accordingly, they reminded that from the beginning of the season they have already offered three concerts, outlining the one on 23 September paying homage to Estellés directed by Mireia Barrera (previous director of the Coro Nacional de España). The rest of the season 2024-2025 will include repertoires of contemporary music, premieres, ‘a cappella’ and symphonic-choral repertoires, all of them crossed by the 275 anniversary of death of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the collaboration with renown groups and soloists.

A part from the musical aspect, the OUV develops a cultural, educational and social project that includes the organization and collaboration on initiatives like, courses, educational projects, new creation and social transformative actions with art, which has been useful to be recognized as an Organisation of Public Interest by the Ministry of the Interior and has received important awards like the Distinción de la Orden de Jaime I, the Alta Distinción de la Generalitat Valenciana, the Medalla de Oro de la Ciudad de València, the Medalla de la Universitat de València, the Medalla de la Universitat Politècnica de València, the Medalla al Mérito en las Bellas Artes de la Academia de San Carlos, the Medalla del Consell Valencià de Cultura or the Insigne de la Academia de la Música Valenciana.