List of choral festivals
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Related genres | Choir |
Location | Worldwide |
Related events | Category:Music festivals, concert tour, music festival, opera festivals, Bach festivals, Celtic music festivals, maritime music festivals, folk festivals, world music festivals, Christian music festival, contemporary classical music festival |
The following is an incomplete list of choral festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on choral music.[1] The topic will have some or complete overlap with the list of opera festivals, list of early music festivals, and list of Bach festivals.
Festivals
Festival name | Location | Years | Notes |
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International Stasys Šimkus choir competition | Klaipėda, Lithuania | 1976–present | Competition is open to mixed, male, female, youth, children‘s choirs, sacred music, vocal ensembles, folk choirs. |
Festival de Música Coral Renascentista Gil de Roca Sales | Brazil | 2017–present | Choirs performing "a capella" renaissance music in Porto Alegre in honoring the conductor Gil de Roca Sales. |
American Music Performance Invitational for Mixed Choirs | United States | 2011–present | series of music festivals for top school choirs |
Cincinnati May Festival | Cincinnati, United States | 1873–present | festival roots go back to the 1840s |
Cork International Choral Festival | Cork, Ireland | 1954–present | features choirs from all over the world |
Festival 500 | St. John's, Canada | 1997–2013 | International biennial non-competitive choral music festival |
Intervarsity Choral Festival (Australia) | Australia | 1950–present | members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia meet for two weeks |
InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada) | Canada | 1949–present | university choirs from Ontario and Quebec, Canada, meet up and perform a combined concert. |
Corearte Festival | Barcelona, Spain | 2007–present | International Corearte Choir Festival Barcelona , every year in October. |
Lago di Garda Music Festival | Lago di Garda | 2007–present | International Festival is non-competitive |
MasterWorks Festival | Cedarville, United States | 1997–present | month-long summer training program for classical performing artists |
Nordic Student Singers' Summit | Scandinavia | 1987–present | arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country. |
Ohrid Choir Festival | Ohrid, North Macedonia | held in the second half of August | |
PICCFEST | Eugene, United States | 1998–present | treble choir festival held in conjunction with Oregon Bach Festival |
Three Choirs Festival | United Kingdom | 1719–present | Alternates between three churches |
Universitas Cantat | Poznań, Poland | 1998–present | International Festival of University Choirs is non-competitive |
Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival | Europe | 1995–present | biennial music festival for Nordic and Baltic choirs |
Summa Cum Laude Festival | Vienna, Austria | 2007–present | International Festival for Choirs and Orchestras, every year in early July with a competition in the Wiener Musikverein |
See also
- Choral music
- List of opera festivals
- List of maritime music festivals
- List of Christian music festivals
References
- ^ Page, Anne, B mus. "Of Choristers – ancient and modern, A history of cathedral choir schools Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine". ofchoristers.net .
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