List of choral festivals explained

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List of choral festivals
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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
Klaipėda, Lithuania 1976–present Competition is open to mixed, male, female, youth, children‘s choirs, sacred music, vocal ensembles, folk choirs.
Brazil 2017–present Choirs performing "a capella" renaissance music in Porto Alegre in honoring the conductor Gil de Roca Sales.
Festival de Coros del Fin del MundoUshuaia, Argentina2019 - presentInternational Choral Festival. Concerts, workshops, conferences and forums with professional live broadcastings.
2011–present series of music festivals for top school choirs
Cincinnati, United States 1873–present festival roots go back to the 1840s
Cork, Ireland 1954–present features choirs from all over the world
St. John's, Canada 1997–2013 International biennial non-competitive choral music festival
Ihlombé!Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, South Africa2009-presentOrganized by Classical Movements[2]
Australia 1950–present members of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia meet for two weeks
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 FestivalLago di Garda, Italy 2007–present International Festival is non-competitive
Cedarville, United States 1997–present month-long summer training program for classical performing artists
1987–present arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.
Ohrid, North Macedonia held in the second half of August
Eugene, United States 1998–present treble choir festival held in conjunction with Oregon Bach Festival
United Kingdom 1719–present Alternates between three churches
Poznań, Poland 1998–present International Festival of University Choirs is non-competitive
Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival Europe 1995–2015 Music festival for Nordic and Baltic choirs. Nominally biennial, but only eight held in the period.
Musica Orbis Prague FestivalPrague, Czech Republic2019–presentInternational festival for non-professional choirs and orchestras, every year at the turn of June and July.
Vienna, Austria 2007–present
Torrevieja, Spain 1955–present International annual choral competition held in July specialized in habaneras and polyphony. It also holds a junior contest.
World Choir GamesWorldwide2000 - presentLargest worldwide choral festival and competition held biennially in a preselected host city, organised by the Interkultur Foundation

See also

Notes and References

  1. Page, Anne, B mus. "Of Choristers – ancient and modern, A history of cathedral choir schools ". ofchoristers.net .
  2. Web site: 2018-07-03 . Choirs honour Mandela at Ihlombe! SA Fest . 2023-04-30 . Music In Africa . en.