Isle of Man Choral Society members are taking part in a concert in Berlin to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
A total of 48 members of the choir will be joining nearly 1,500 singers from 27 countries, and supported by the World Orchestra for Peace.
They will perform the Armed Man - ’A Mass for Peace’, conducted by the composer Sir Karl Jenkins.
The Concert for Peace takes place at the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Friday (November 2).
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The 48 singers from the island are travelling over beforehand for five three-hour rehearsals. Julian Power BEM, director of music and conductor of Isle of Man Choral Society, has taken his singers through the work and is singing with them in Berlin.
One of the challenges will be the number of languages the piece includes, with movements being sung in German, Japanese and Welsh.
The Isle of Man Choral Society was invited to take part in the event by Sir Karl in May. It came after 50 members of the choir took part in the world premiere of ’Sing! The Music was Given’, at the Carnegie Hall, New York.
The New York concert was at the invitation of Dr Jonathan Griffith, artistic director and conductor of Distinguished Concerts International New York with a choir of around 250 singers.
Sing! The Music was Given is to have its British Premiere on April 7, 2019, when Isle of Man Choral Society will perform this work and Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass with Isle of Man Symphony Orchestra.
The Armed Man was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the millennium celebrations, to mark the museum’s move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. It was first performed in 2000.