24 July 2015, 3 PM: First introductory session and audition for selecting the active participants.

From 25 July: Masterclass and rehearsal of pilot choir in the morning. Participation at stage rehearsal and daily Open Singings in the afternoon and early evening.

More informations about the program here!

9:30-13:00!!!

Presentation and singing of newly composed and innovative contemporary repertoire for male choirs. Many male choirs and conductors seem to have difficulties in finding good repertorie for their choir. I would like to bring them 25 titles of newly composed male choral music.

African musical art has always featured a huge diversity of styles. Very much related to traditions, community and religious practices, authentic African music is in general of circumstantial, functional and ritual essence. The approach to the work in its design, its rendering and its reception is sensual, substantialist, essentialist, contextual, sacred, upward, dynamic, functional or purely aesthetic. This is the focal point between the two approaches unique to 'Afro' including others: "the African spirit of music" and "the spirit of African music".

Let's have a moment to share our experiences about Children's choirs in movement!
With some different kinds of repertoire, how can the scores inspired us to create a staging? How can the movement serve the music, help the children to sing and give something more to the audience?

Moderator: Maud Hamon-Loisance

Speaker: Thorsten Weber (AT) 

This lecture explains the experiment carried out for EuropaCantat 2012, in Turin. The students of three European Schools of architecture (Turin, Helsinki and Bucarest ) designed the arrangement of some locations that hosted the choirs performances. Two project were realized, and in some cases the choirs actually interacted with the space. At the end of the project, a book was published, in cooperation between Torino Faculty of Architecture and Feniarco. The book will be presented in the lecture.

Presentation about the history and development of the Soundpainting - multidisciplinary sign-language, its present position in the music education, its practice of collaborative creative processes, the preferences and choices of a real-time composition, and its possibilities towards a collective multidisciplinary art-activity.

Children usually come to choir rehearsals after long schooldays. So the first task of the conductor is to draw the attention of the tired young singers, to „wake them up“, to motivate. During this lecture I will suggest some possibilities of trying some new approaches to make the choir rehearsals „fresh“. Could we encourage the singers to use their phantasy there, perhaps to combine the use of the voice with physical movements or make use of instruments that our singers might study? Let us try to phantasize and play with music together!

Feniarco, the Italian federation for choirs, is also a music publisher very involved in promoting and spreading the contemporary composers’ works, paying particular attention to the repertoire dedicated to children’s and youth choirs. It is also interested in valuing traditional folk tunes with new arrangements and harmonisations. During the reading session, some composers will present their latest works.: Andrea Basevi, Manolo Da Rold, Enrico Miaroma

Get an insight to the everyday life of the manufacture, and meet Hungary’s biggest Organ-building Company. Throughout the tour, you will see how a clog becomes a wooden pipe or an organ case. Also you will have the opportunity to meet the history of organ building, the status of the industry, the difficulty and the beauty of the manufacturing from the designing to the on-site construction.