Frank Markowitsch has been the director of the Choir of the Junges Ensemble Berlin since 1998. Together with this ensemble he realised a number of projects with socio-political aspects and co-operated with instutions of various disciplines. The Junge Ensemble regularly assigns composition commissions, performs new pieces and works together with renowned soloists such as Annette Dasch, Maria Bengtsson and Anna Prohaska as well as actors such as David Striesow and Irm Hermann. The CD recording of Arthur Honeggers “King David” received excellent reviews. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War the Junge Ensemble performed Britten’s War Requiem along with a video collage they created together with pupils in a cooperations project with Berlin schools.