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53rd Sacred Music Festival Virgo Lauretana, Loreto, Italy, 3-7 Apr 2013. The purpose of the Festival is to contribute to the diffusion of Sacred Music culture and to promote the knowledge and the artistic and cultural friendship between nations, through a closer examination of Sacred Music’s spiritual meanings. Participation is open to all Italian and foreign choirs. Contact: Rassegna Internazionale di Musica Sacra "Virgo Lauretana" Loreto, Tel: +39071-7501596, Fax: +39-071-7501596, Email: info@rassegnalauretana.it - Website: www. rassegnalauretana.it
Charleston International Choral Festival, South Carolina, USA, 11-14 April 2013. Contact: Music Contact International, Fax: +1-802-8622251, Email: travel@music-contact.com - Website: www.musiccontact.com
Days of International Choir Music, Verona, Italy, 3-7 Apr 2013. Concerts and friendships. Contact: Music Contact International, Tel: +1-800-6240166, Fax: +1-802-8622251, Email: travel@music-contact. com - Website: www.music-contact.com
19th Torrevieja Habaneras Contest for Children's and Youth Choirs, Torrevieja (Alicante), Spain, 19-21 Apr 2013. Competition developing new generations of singers. Apply before: 2 Jan 2013. Contact: Manuel Martinez, Tel: +34-965-710702, Fax: +34-965-712570, Email: habaneras@habaneras. org - Website: www.habaneras.org
Choir Meeting Cantate Budweis, Czech Republic, 4-7 Apr 2013. For all kind of choirs from all over the world. Contact: Music&Friends, Tel: +33-1-49277009, Fax: +352-241616, Email: musicandfriends@tri.lu - Website: www. choirfestivalparis.com 3rd Vratislavia Sacra - International Wroclaw Choir Festival, Poland, 5-7 Apr 2013. Festival focusing on sacred music of different styles and churches. Contact: Cantilena & Melody, Tel: +4822-641 6157, Fax: +48-22-641 6157, Email: info@ vratislaviasacra.pl - Website: www.vratislaviasacra.pl First International Festival of Children and Youth Choirs “Vivat, Odessa!”, Ukraine, 10-15 Apr 2013. Let's break the borders and language barriers with our songs is the theme of this festival for children and youth choirs from all over the world. Apply before 10 January. Contact: Festival "Vivat, Odessa", Larysa Garbuz, Tel: + 38-67-974 3329, Fax: +38-63-4251400, Email: vivat-odessa@keysolution. ru or chorus@keysolution.ru - Website: www.vivatodessa.keysolution.ru 30th International Youth Choir Festival, Celje, Slovenia, 10-14 Apr 2013. For up to 16 selected children, girls and youth choirs. Competition, concerts, Open Singing, workshops. Compulsory pieces, international jury. Apply before 31 January 2013. Contact: Nenad Fir t, 30. mednarodni mladinski pevski festival, Tel: +3863-4287930 or +3863-4287936, Fax: +3863-4287931, Email: Nenad.First@celje.si or tic@celje.si - Website: www. celeia.info/mmpf2013 3rd Messiah Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 11-14 Apr 2013. 10 selected choruses or orchestras of any age and composition (also dance groups). Performances in Salzburg and surroundings. Contact: Chorus MM, Tel: +43-662-874537, Fax: +43-662-874537-30, Email: messiah-salzburg@cc-a.at - Website: www. chorus2000.com
3rd World Choir Festival on Musical, Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-14 Apr 2013. For all kind of choirs from around the world. Contact: Choir Korais, Tel: +30-6942-487804, Fax: +30-2310-309900, Email: choir_korais@hotmail.com - Website: http:// xorodiakoraiseng.weebly.com/announcements.html
12th International Choral Competition Maribor 2013, Slovenia, 19-21 Apr 2013. For up to 12 selected choirs: female, male and mixed, with 16-48 singers. Non-competitive and three competing programs (compulsory, free and Grand Prix). Free accommodation and meals. The winner of the Grand Prize will be invited to the finale for European Grand Prix Award for Choral Singing 2013 – together with the winners of the 2012 Concorso Polifonico Guido d’Arezzo/Italy, Certamen Coral de Tolosa/ Basque Coutry, Spain, Florilège Vocal de Tours/France and International May Choir Competition Varna/ Bulgaria (members of The European Grand Prix for Choral Singing Association). Apply before 19 Nov 2012. Contact: Mihela Jagodic, JSKD, Tel: +3861-2410525, Fax: +386-1-2410536, Email: choral. competition@jskd.si - Website: www.jskd.si Slovakia Cantat 2013, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 25-28 Apr 2013. International Choir and Folksong Festival. Competition, workshop, concerts of sacred and secular music. The Slovak capital Bratislava opens its gates and invites choirs to its charming centre in spring. Apply before 15/12/12. Contact: Bratislava Music Agency, Tel: +421-908-693395, Fax: +421265-957054, Email: info@choral-music.sk - Website: www.choral-music.sk 11th Venezia in Musica, Choir Competition and Festival, Venice, Italy, 28 Apr-2 May 2013. For all kinds of choirs from all around the world. Contact: Interkultur Foundation, Tel: +49-6403-956525, Fax: +49-6403-956529, Email: mail@interkultur.com Website: www.interkultur.com
59th Cork International Choral Festival, Ireland, 1-5 May 2013. Founded in 1954, the Cork International Choral Festival in Ireland is a world class festival celebrating the very best of choral and vocal music. The programme includes a series of excellent international and national competitions, world class gala concerts, vibrant fringe and public performances, non-competitive choirs and an education programme. Top international choirs compete in the prestigious Fleischmann International Trophy Competition. Contact: Cork International Choral Festival, Tel: +353-21-4215125, Fax: +353-21-4215192, Email: info@corkchoral.ie - Website: www.corkchoral.ie Blossoming Bohemia!, Vienna, Austria, Teplice & Prague, Czech Republic, Dresden & Berlin, Germany, 1-6 May 2013. International Festival competition for participants aged 8 to 26. Categories: musical, solo and choir singing, folk groups, etc... Apply before 15 Feb 2013. Contact: International Youth Forum ENDOWMENT FUND, J&S Group, Tel: +420-267911785, Fax: +420-267911783, Email: festival@praha-cz.net or artmarket@praha-cz. net - Website: www.children-festivals.com or www. advent-in-prague.cz 2nd International Gospel Choir Festival Berlin 2013, Germany, 9-10 May 2013. For all amateur Gospel Choirs. Non competitive except for best conductor, best repertoire, best presentation and best solo singer. Contact: EvenTTours, Tel: +31-46-7111794, Fax: +31-6-39440628, Email: info@eventtours.nl - Website: www.eventtours.nl/ choirfestivals.html The Ascending Voice III, Malibu, CA, USA, 9-11 May 2013. International symposium of sacred cappella music intended to university and church choir directors, musicologists, ethnomusicologists, theologians, church historians, singers, and anyone who cherishes sacred a cappella music. Submissions for new psalmody, workshops, choral performances, and papers are welcome. Contact: Pepperdine University - Malibu Campus, Tel: +1-310-5067644, Fax: +1-310-5064077 - Website: http://www. pepperdine.edu/ascendingvoice/ Canto a Roma Festival, Rome, Italy, 14-17 May 2013. Participating choirs join a festival chorus that will be in residence in Rome, Italy performing Gabriel Fauré's Requiem with orchestra and professional soloists, under the direction of Maestro Nigel Short. Contact: Nigel Short, artistic director and conductor, Tel: +1-646-3706689, Email: sechristtravel@gmail.com 3rd Kaunas Cantat International Choir Festival and Competition, Kaunas, Lithuania, 16-19 May 2013. Concerts in city halls, churches, choir competition in many categories. Contact: Kaunas club "Cantate Domino", Tel: +370-631-43428 or +370-656-84641, Email: info@kaunascantat.lt Website: www.kaunascantat.lt