Making music together
The subscribers’s orchestra is now called the DSO Community Orchestra!
They come from a wide variety of professions: they are doctors, broadcasting staff or students during the day, but every Monday evening they come together in the DSO’s rehearsal hall to make music together. Since 2003, the DSO Community Orchestra (formerly known as ›Abo-Orchester‹) has been providing its musically ambitious friends with the opportunity to rehearse and perform challenging concert literature under professional guidance.
Originally intended for subscribers to the DSO, the DSO subscribers’ orchestra soon opened up for a number of amateur musicians. Not only the classic audience of subscribers is making music here, but in the meantime also students and former DSO orchestra professionals aged 20 to 82 are part of it. It has become an integrative project, a large community of people around the DSO who get along splendidly through and with music. To emphasise this aspect, the ensemble will henceforth have a new name: it is looking forward to the next 20 years as the DSO Community Orchestra.
The ensemble is led by Heinz Radzischewski, the former assistant principal trumpeter of the DSO, who initiated it. Many of his colleagues are regularly involved with the project as teachers and soloists, and the principal conductor occasionally holds a rehearsal. Concerts in Berlin and guest performances document the high level of the collaboration.
Upcoming Concerts
Christmas 2025 – Wilmersdorf
Sat 6. December 2025
Evangelische Auenkirche, Wilmersdorf 7 pm
Wilhelmsaue 118a, 10715 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Heinz Radzischewski Conductor
Christina Bischoff Soprano
Nico Brazda Baritone
DSO Community-Orchester
Madrigalchor Charlottenburg
Hanna Siepmann Choir Mistress
Herz-Jesu-Chor Tegel
Ulrich Wünschel Choir Master
Music by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and others
Tickets for 18 Euro available here
February 2026 – Haus des Rundfunks
Sun 22 February 2026
Haus des Rundfunks 5 pm
Concert in favour of the Krebsstiftung Berlin
Heinz Radzischewski Conductor
Helena Madoka Berg Violin
DSO Community-Orchester
Gerhardt Müller-Goldboom ›per trentadue archi‹
Max Bruch ›Scottish Phantasy‹ for Violin and Orchestra
Pjotr Tschaikowsky Symphony No. 5
Tickets for 18 Euro available here
April/May 2026 – Berlin and Potsdam
Concert 1: Sat 25 April 2026
Evangelische Auenkirche, Wilmersdorf 7 pm
Tickets from 6 € to 30 €
Concert 2: Sat 9 May 2026
St. Peter und Paul, Potsdam 4 pm
Admission free, donations requested
Heinz Radzischewski Conductor (Potsdam)
Winfried Kleindopf Conductor (Auenkirche)
Soloists
DSO Community-Orchester
Kantorei der Auenkirche
Winfried Kleindopf Choir Master
Madrigalchor Charlottenburg
Hanna Siepmann Choir Mistress
Gioachino Rossini ›Petite Messe solennelle‹
Sommer 2026 – Gatow
Sa 6. Juni 2026 / 19 Uhr
Militärhistorisches Museum (MHM)
Flughafen Berlin-Gatow, Hangar 7
Heinz Radzischewski Conductor
Birgit Pehnert Soprano
Enrique Ambrosio Tenor
DSO Community-Orchester
Opera and Operetta Gala
Music by Gounod, Lehár, Joh. Strauss, Lincke, Millöcker, Puccini and Verdi
Registration from April 2026.
Vacancies
Interested musicians are welcome at any time. At the moment we are mainly looking for violas and double basses. However, new violins and cellos are also welcome.
Rehearsals
The subscribers’ orchestra rehearses every Monday from 7:30 to 10 pm in the DSO rehearsal hall at Wilhelm Hallen, Kopenhagener Str. 72a, 13407 Berlin-Reinickendorf.
Interested players are always welcome; we are always looking for string players in particular.
Contact
Marion Herrscher:
Email or Tel +49 30. 20 29 87 530