The Knabenchor Hannover (Hannover Boys Choir) is a boys choir founded in 1950. The Choir group has traditionally performed of seventeenth-century composers and achieved international acclaim. Conductors such as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and Christoph Eschenbach have worked with the choir, as have orchestras such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and German radio orchestras.Besides performing at festivals both in Germany and abroad (including Israel, Japan, Russia, South and Central America, the US and South Africa), the Knabenchor Hannover has recorded regularly and can frequently be heard on radio. In 2010, the choir group first time came to China receiving the high praise by the Chinese audience.