Fink takes over WDR radio choir
Nicolas Fink, Artistic Director of the Swiss Youth Choir, will become the new Chief Conductor of the WDR Radio Choir at the start of the 2020/2021 season. He succeeds the current chief conductor Stefan Parkman, who has led the choir for six years.
The Swiss conductor Nicolas Fink, born in 1978, has been a guest conductor of the WDR Rundfunkchor since 2011. He also works regularly with other ARD radio choirs and the Choeur de Radio France. He was assistant conductor at the Berlin Radio Choir from 2010 to 2015. He is also choir director at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
In addition, Simon Halsey was recruited for the WDR Rundfunkchor as creative director for choral music and extraordinary projects. This is a newly created position. The choral conductor, who was born in Great Britain in 1958, was chief conductor of the Berlin Radio Choir from 2001 to 2015, and the first close collaboration between Simon Hasley and Nicolas Fink dates back to this time.
Halsey introduces himself to the audience at a sing-along concert on December 12. Nicolas Fink begins his concert season with the WDR Rundfunkchor in September 2020.
