2020 Serenade! Choral Festival

WORLD VOICES WOMEN for

Pioneers, Progress, Purpose July 14 -July 20, 2020

July 14-July 20, 2020

Honoring the centennial of the most momentous achievement during the struggle for women’s rights in American history, Classical Movements’ 10th annual Serenade! Washington, D.C. Choral Festival will again look globally with “World Voices for Valérie Sainte-Agathe Women: Pioneers, Progress, Serenade! 2020 Guest Conductor Artistic Director, San Francisco Girls Chorus Purpose”—inviting vocal ensembles of all kinds to celebrate the many international triumphs that Preview our women have achieved, while Serenade! acknowledging how much more Choral Festival on YouTube. remains to be accomplished.

WORLD VOICES for WOMEN Pioneers, Progress, Purpose Classical Movements’ Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program will commission female-identifying composers to write brand-new choral works celebrating the legacy of six key suffragists.

Mary Church Terrell Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

Serenade! 2020 will honor these Crystal Eastman suffragists Mary Burnett Talbert

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett Watch the entire Serenade! 2018 Finale on YouTube.

Alice Paul

SERENADE! SHARED CONCERTS: • • • • • • • •

Presented by Classical Movements 11 concerts in beautiful, historic venues throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region World premieres of specially commissioned vocal works for Serenade!

Exuberant celebration of international choral music focusing on “World Voices for Women: Pioneers, Progress, Purpose” Collaborative concerts, engaging workshops, cultural exchanges, community outreach Rehearsals with renowned guest conductors Since 2011: 89 choirs | 35 countries | 6 continents

Watch a full Serenade!

Millennium Stage performance on YouTube.

Inspiring

Cultural Exchange

Hands-On Community

Once-in-a-Lifetime

Connections Vocal Traditions

Interactive

Unique

Incomparable

History

WORKSHOPS, EXCHANGES & OUTREACH

“The physical, cultural and psychological distance travelled by the women and men of our choir, from the dust of Central Australia to the world’s most powerful capital and its prestigious stages was monumental, mind stretching and historic, expanding our horizons, enhancing our skills, & widening our friendship circle.”

Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL PRESS: “Serenade! fills the region with a rich diversity of sounds.”

Tim Smith | Baltimore Sun “The most genuinely international ensemble I’ve ever heard, apart from the Olympic Games.”

Anne Midgette | Washington Post

Tiharea at Voice of America radio Interview

“Bringing together top-tier choirs from a dozen countries in a bid to show music’s universality— how the joy of singing transcends cultures.”

Agence France Presse “[Serenade!] showcases choirs from around the world. The goal is to educate both the singers and audiences about different cultures.”

Audie Cornish | All Things Considered, NPR “A majestic showcase of what can be achieved through collaboration, and a most welcome reminder that we all have a voice, and that the glory of song can resoundingly reaffirm a common sense of humanity, the world over.”

Songlines Magazine (U.K.)

89 Choirs, 35 Countries, 6 Continents AUSTRALIA Australian Children’s Choir Australian Voices Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir Young Adelaide Voices Women of Note BULGARIA Balkanes BOTSWANA UCCSA Broadhurst Choir CHINA Dimen Dong Folk Chorus Shanghai No.3 Girls High School Concert Band COLOMBIA Verata e Liberi CUBA Camerata Sine Nomine Coro Entrevoces Schola Canotorum Coralina CZECH REPUBLIC Ondrášek Czech Choir Zvonky-Praha CANADA Cadence Cantaré Calgary Countermeasure Les Petits Chanteurs de Laval Les Voix Boreales Nai Syrian Refugee Children’s Choir Nathaniel Dett Chorale Polonia Choir, Edmonton Toronto Beaches Children’s & Youth Chorus The Watch Voix Boréales ECUADOR Choir Cedemusica ESTONIA Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir FINLAND Tapiola Chamber Choir FRANCE Barbara Furtuna

GERMANY Calmus Windsbacher Knaben Chor INDIA Chennai Children’s Choir Gandharva Choir Madras Youth Choir

RUSSIA Konevets Quartet The Russian Singers Tyva Kyzy SLOVAKIA Pro-Musica Magnolia

INDONESIA Indonesian Children & Youth Choir “Cordana”

SOUTH AFRICA Drakensberg Boys Choir Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society Wits Choir

IRELAND Capella Wallace Choir

SOUTH KOREA FEBC Busan– Korea Children’s Choir

ITALY Ensemble Musicaficta

SPAIN Escolania de Montserrat

JAPAN Ensemble Planeta

VENEZUELA Betsayda Machado & Parranda El Clavo

LATVIA Koris Logos Latvian Voices MADAGASCAR Tiharea MEXICO Túumben Paax MONGOLIA Egschiglen Sedaa NAMIBIA Voices of Namibia NETHERLANDS Kobra Ensemble Wishful Singing Olga Vocal Ensemble NORTHERN IRELAND Capella, Wallace High School Chamber Choir NORWAY Oslo Chamber Choir Viva PANAMA Coro Polifonico de Panama POLAND Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir

ZIMBABWE Insingizi USA Anima, Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus Boston City Singers Boston Eastern Heritage Cantabile Phoenix Girl’s Chorus Crystal Children’s Choir Eya Ensemble Fairfield County Children’s Choir Florida’s Singing Sons Howard University Gospel Choir Le Cantanti di Chicago Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Miami Children’s Chorus Minnetonka Chamber Choir Morgan State University Pacific Boychoir Phoenix Girls Chorus Pihcintu Refugee Girls Chorus Singing Sensations Youth Choir The Transfiguration Choir of Boys & Girls, NYC Tucson Girls Chorus Yale Alumni Chorus USA HOST CHOIRS Children’s Chorus of Washington Northwestern High School Choir Welcome Table Choir (Choir of the Homeless)

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July 14 - July 20 Washington, D.C. “Absolutely magical...Classical Movements has created something truly special with the Serenade! Festival.”

Grant Gershon | Artistic Director, L.A. Master Chorale

Finale Guest Conductors 2011 — Stanley Thurston 2012 — Philip Brunelle 2013 — Jeffrey Douma 2014 — Grant Gershon 2015 — Doreen Rao

2016 — Simon Carrington 2017 — Joshua Habermann 2018 — Scott Tucker 2019 — Doreen Rao 2020 — Valérie Sainte-Agathe

ClassicalMovements.com/Serenade info@classicalmovements.com +1 (703) 683-6040 Moving the Music, Changing the World 145 Countries | Orchestras | Choirs | 3 Festivals | New Music | Cultural Diplomacy