Classical Choir - RPTU Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau

The Classical Choir of RPTU

The Classical Choir of RPTU has been in existence since the winter semester of 1974/75. The first concert took place in the summer semester of 1976. During weekly rehearsals throughout the semester, challenging sacred and secular works from choral literature are studied and performed. The initiator and long-time director was Paul Seiter, followed for several years by Ulrike Seiter-Bröhl. Between 1997 and 2021, the choir sang under the direction of Berthold Kliewer. Since 2022, Maximilian Rajczyk has been leading the choir.

The Classical Choir of RPTU is comprised of students, academic staff, PhD students, and friends of RPTU as well as the choir. No audition is required to join.

The repertoire of the classical choir includes works by classical masters as well as a diverse, stylistically varied program from the Renaissance through the Baroque, from Classical to Romantic periods, and even to Modern times.

In addition to rehearsals and concerts, social life also plays an important role, such as during the regular choir weekends.

Maximilian Rajczyk press photo — Press photo: Julia Valentini

Artistic director

Maximilian Rajczyk, born in 1992 in Homburg/Saar, is the director of the choir school at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory of the City of Mainz. He received his musical training at the Episcopal Institute of Church Music (BKI) of the Diocese of Speyer under Christian von Blohn. He then studied church music and conducting with a focus on choral conducting in the class of Prof. Georg Grün at the Hochschule für Musik Saar in Saarbrücken.

From 2019 to 2023, he served as deanery cantor at the Marienkirche in Kaiserslautern, specializing in children’s and youth choir conducting. Since 2022, Maximilian Rajczyk has held a teaching position for choral conducting at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). Furthermore, from 2024 to 2025, he was professionally responsible for the overall direction of the State Youth Choir (LandesJugendChor) of Rhineland-Palatinate.

With the Classical Choir of the RPTU, he has performed major works from the choir-orchestra repertoire, including Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Choral rehearsals have also taken him to concert halls such as the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the State Theatre Mainz.

For his music education work, Maximilian Rajczyk was awarded the “Kinderchorland Prize Rheinland-Pfalz” by the Deutsche Chorjugend in 2021. In addition to his conducting activities, he is involved as a lecturer for the Rhineland-Palatinate choral associations in the training and further education of choir conductors and is committed to sustainable musical education work.