Festival
Ateliers for singers
Our Music Office along with the international Music Commission and the Regional Artistic Committee has finished the atelier distribution of participants applied until the beginnig of the year 2015. We have many ateliers which are already full, but some can still welcome applicants!
The festival offers ateliers for singers lasting from 4 to 8 days of rehearsals and ending with a public concert. It is possible to combine two 4-day ateliers (part a and part b) or to stay on after your atelier, attending some of the discovery ateliers or programme for conductors and composers. Some ateliers (when it says “+1”) contain a free day for tourism (or for attending discovery ateliers or lectures) before the final concert. Group and choir members can apply for and be divided into different ateliers.
Josep VILA JOVER (CATALONIA, ES)
Perform some of the most touching and beautiful sacred compositions for children's choir – there will be music in many different languages and a work especially written for: you!
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Status:
Full
Length:
4a
final performance:
Tuesday 28 July
Age:
10-14
Category:
children
Commissioned piece:
Kurt BIKKEMBERGS (BE)
Kadri HUNT (EE)
The Nordic-Baltic countries have a rich tradition of great folksongs, full of emotion and clear-cut beauty. A repertoire you should surely sing in your own choir too!
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Status:
Full
Length:
4b
final performance:
Saturday 01 August
Age:
10-14
Category:
children
Commissioned piece:
Tõnis KAUMANN (EE)
Yoshihisa Matthias KINOSHITA (JP/DE)
Combine singing and modern dancing to make a story-telling performance of music-dance-theatre. A big experiment it will be – although some music will be prepared, yet you will not know what exactly will happen. Inspiration will certainly play an important part of the process. Be excited!
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Naomi FARAN (IL)
The sounds of the land where the Bible originates from, including folklore, secular as well as sacred compositions relating to Israel.
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Status:
Cancelled
Length:
4a
final performance:
Tuesday 28 July
Age:
open
Category:
female
Commissioned piece:
Eyal Bat (IL)
Cecilia MARTIN-LÖF (SE)
How do the words of David sound in the head of different composers? Psalm texts set to music from all around the world.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
4b
final performance:
Saturday 01 August
Age:
open
Category:
female
Commissioned piece:
Ivo ANTOGNINI (CH)
Basilio ASTULEZ (BASQUE COUNTRY, ES)
Magic has always dwelt amongst us. We turn to nature in search of answers. Our innermost selves are full of rites, ceremonies and superstitions. The atelier shall tackle composers who have been captivated by this disconcerting window to the unknown – such as Mellnäs, Rautavaara, Tormis and others.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
7+1 days
final performance:
Saturday 01 August
Age:
open
Category:
female
Commissioned piece:
David AZURZA ARAMBURU (BASQUE COUNTRY, ES)
Jonathan RATHBONE (UK)
The majority of this material will be created during the atelier itself. Ideas from the singers will be used to make music. Jonathan Rathbone who has written countless vocal arrangements for choirs of every standard will steer the group through the process. No previous arranging experience necessary!
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Status:
You can still apply
Length:
6 days
final performance:
Thursday 30 July
Age:
16-27
Category:
mixed youth
Marleen ANNEMANS (FLANDRIA, BE)Richard FILZ (AT)
Dive into the extraordinary world of percussive choral compositions: speech music, vocal and body percussion, sound imitations, sung and spoken repertoire – all with a whole lot of movement. It is time to go dum dum tak!
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
8 days
final performance:
Saturday 01 August
Age:
16-27
Category:
mixed youth
Karmina ŠILEC (SI)
Vocal music in creative freedom! The 5 elements of the Choregie method: Motion (moving, dancing), Voice Exploratorium (vocalizing with extended vocal techniques), Sculpting (training of body and mind), Imaginating (laboratory of experience and improvisation as a practice of creativity) and Rituals.
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Oskar EGLE (AT)
Combine Latin jazz rhythm with the Latin mass text – dance and swing with a jazz band and a saxophone player to the music of the young German composer, Martin Völlinger.
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Status:
Cancelled
Length:
7 days
final performance:
Friday 31 July
Age:
16-27
Category:
mixed youth
Commissioned piece:
Martin Völlinger (DE)
Soma SZABÓ (HU)Svetlana Krstić (SI)
Choral music inspired by folklore – ancient melodies of folksongs in traditional and contemporary arrangement, but also pieces that have been inspired by folklore without containing any existing folk-tunes. Rooted in your heart, bearing fruit in your mind.
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Status:
You can still apply
Length:
7 days
final performance:
Friday 31 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Achilleas G. CHALDAEAKES (GR)Predrag DJOKOVIĆ (RS)
Experience the diversity of medieval chant and become acquainted with the Byzantine traditions – Serbian and Greek medieval liturgic music in one atelier.
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Status:
Cancelled
Length:
6 days
final performance:
Thursday 30 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Dario TABBIA (IT)
Travel the world of Renaissance madrigals and explore the influence especially between Flemish composers and the Venice school. Take the hands of Cipriano de Rore for instance and hit the road down South.
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Tomislav FAČINI (HR)
By using music from two pairs of master and student, Joseph Haydn – Johann Georg Lickl and Antonio Salieri – Franz Liszt, a new choral mass shall be assembled, each part chosen from one of the above composers.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
7 days
final performance:
Friday 31 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Csaba SOMOS (HU)
Two romantic choral pieces accompanied by symphonic orchestra – Dvořák: HYMNUS "Heirs of the White Mountain”, Op.30., Brahms: Schicksalslied.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
6 days
final performance:
Thursday 30 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Aleksei PETROV (RU)
The atelier shall include fragments of S. Rachmaninoff's beautiful All‐Night Vigil (Op. 37) and some other sacred compositions from Russian-Ukrainian composers (G. Sviridov, M. Berezovsky).
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Attila KERTÉSZ (HU)Bojan SUĐIĆ (RS)
Focus on music from two great composers of the 20th century: Béla Bartók from Hungary and Stevan Stojanoviæ Mokranjac from Serbia. The atelier shall involve repertoire for mixed choirs as well as pieces for separate female and male voice groups, so get ready for the challenge!
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Martina BATIČ (SI)
The atelier's aim is to offer a presentation of Slovenian choral music: from Renaissance composer Jacobus Handl Gallus journeying through to contemporary composers such as Nana Forte and others.
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Status:
Cancelled
Length:
7 days
final performance:
Friday 31 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Dani JURIS (FI)
Secular and folkloristic compositions by Finnish composers, including music by Leevi Madetoja, Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Selim Palmgren.
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Hans-Joachim LUSTIG (AT)Máté SZABÓ SIPOS (HU)
International pieces of a grotesque, absurd or funny character, by composers such as Petrassi or Mäntyjärvi, including speaking choirs.
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Status:
Cancelled
Length:
8 days
final performance:
Saturday 01 August
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Commissioned piece:
Georgi Sztojanov (HU/BG)
Matthias BECKERT (DE)
The atelier shall tackle the exciting Mass of Wolfram Buchenberg with its unique big band accompaniment (Missa ad maiorem Dei gloriam for 4-8 voice mixed choir, big band and bariton). Even more: all this in the presence of the composer himself!
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
6 days
final performance:
Thursday 30 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
Commissioned piece:
Wolfram BUCHENBERG (DE)
Dominique TILLE (CH)
Erotic songs throughout history – from the Renaissance to Pop music – with a steamy final concert ravelling late into the night.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
5 days
final performance:
Wednesday 29 July
Age:
18+
Category:
mixed
Commissioned piece:
Cecilia MCDOWALL (UK)
Bob CHILCOTT (UK)
Bob Chilcott’s piece of the same title highlights 5 significant dates that have made an impact on our lives. Other pieces on historic themes will be Tormis’ Tabu, a protest piece against oppression, and Górecki’s Totus Tuus, celebrating the pilgrimage of Pope St John Paul II to his native Poland.
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Virginia BONO (AR)
Join us on a musical voyage to Latin and South America: the dances, rhythms, languages, landscapes, tastes, emotions and the love of life so unique to that continent. All of this through folk and popular urban music from Argentina, Brazil and other countries. In cooperation with América Cantat.
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Status:
Only few places left
Length:
5 days
final performance:
Wednesday 29 July
Age:
open
Category:
mixed
