As a symphonic choir and a cappella ensemble, the Zürcher Sing-Akademie has long since earned its place among Europe’s professional choirs thanks to its musical and artistic flexibility as well as its inspiring performances. Since its foundation in 2011, the Swiss ensemble can look back on collaborations with numerous top international conductors such as Giovanni Antonini, Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Pablo Heras-Casado, René Jacobs, Paavo Järvi, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Jonathan Nott and David Zinman. Florian Helgath has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Zürcher Sing-Akademie since the 2017/18 season.

Tours have taken the choir to Germany, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Lebanon, Taiwan and China as well as various European capitals. In addition to its long-standing close partnership with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the choir works with various excellent orchestras such as the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Hofkapelle Munich and the baroque orchestra La Scintilla.

The Zürcher Sing-Akademie also regularly presents a cappella programmes, with a focus on works by Swiss composers. By commissioning compositions and premieres, it makes an important contribution to the development of the choral scene.

Numerous CD recordings have already earned the ensemble awards and praise from experts. The most recent releases are Beethoven’s »Choral Fantasy« under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado and Weber’s opera »Der Freischütz« under the direction of René Jacobs, both with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on Harmonia Mundi. In autumn 2022, the choir’s first a cappella recording was released on the Swiss label Claves Records, and last March Haydn’s »Stabat Mater« with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under the direction of René Jacobs was released by Pantone.