A very special highlight awaits us at the end of every festival week.
Since the foundation of the International Children’s Choir Festival Dresden 2006,
a work for children’s choirs, specially composed for the festival,
has been premiered in cooperation with the ‘Dresden Frauenkirche Foundation’.
In 2018, the composer’s name was Christoph Hiller and his work is called
The Journey of the Quiet Thought.

Christoph Hiller

Christoph J. Hiller studied conducting, school music and trumpet at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar.
Since then he has been responsible for the management of various ensembles and choirs in the classical and popular area. He continued his own activity in singing as a bass in the pop vocal band „Sonic Suite“. He is also a sought-after workshop lecturer such as at the „Salzburg Summer Courses“, the „Ferderal Congess Musical lessons“, the Chor.com, the „Chorpagogical Summer Course“ and the „Choral Festival Szczecin“.
He received prices for choir compositions prizes at the „Visions – Jazz and Pop Choir“ competition and in the children‘s choir category at the „V.-E.-Becker Composition Competition“. The project „Border singer – Catch your dreams“ under his artistic direction was awarded the „Children of Olympus“ prize by the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States and broadcast in a five-part documentary on MDR television.
Since 2015, composition and music production has been the center of his work. The Jury Award at CutOutFest Mexico 2017 was nominated for the film „Tamah“ (Erhan Yürük) for „Golden Eye – Best International Film Music“ and premiered by the Tonhalle Orchestra under the direction of Frank Strobel at the International Film Festival Zurich.

Journey of the Quiet Thought

Born in a cave
Made of grey, enlightened just
By the glint
Of ancient shadows brave.

Safe and peaceful he grew,
Borne by the love of his tribe,
Tutelar hand of eternal shadows,
Importance to ascribe.

Still they saw them,
Every morning anew,
Still they were and they went,
Merrily and blue.

A roaring lion, a silent house,
The calling of horses so wild,
The talking eye and the dancing hands,
Shadow world ‐ cave walls child.

Everyday labor, everyone’s woe,
Love, lust, brimming with mirth,
Everything’s guided by the holy shadows,
The wall determined by birth.

The quiet thought went through childhood,
Wisdom obtained,
Glory he gained
Outlaying the life of the shadows.

Priest of the illumed wall,
Master of the eternal shadow,
Everyone witnessed his all‐knowing call,
Quiet thought – believers meadow.

But one morning everything changed,
A scream, a fearful eye,
A stranger entered the cave,
Strong himself he came by.

Too fast to act, too strong to resist,
Tied by the clutch of a hand,
The quiet thought couldn’t elude
The force of the unknown land.