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A week in Riga directed by Nigel Perrin, Latvia, 2330 July 2017. For experienced choral singers of all ages. Contact: RunBySingers, Email: info@runbysingers.org Website: www.runbysingers.org International Youth Music Festival II and Bratislava Cantat I, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 24-27 July 2017. International Festival for Youth and Children Choirs and Orchestras. Competition, workshop, concerts of sacred and secular music, bringing together talented young musicians from around the world. Contact: Bratislava Music Agency, Email: info@choral-music.sk - Website: www.choral-music.sk World Peace Choral Festival Vienna 2017, Austria, 26-29 July 2017. Together with the famous Vienna Boys choir, children’s and youth choirs as well as adult choirs from around the world will do concerts, workshops, celebrations and competitions for the world peace. Contact: Stefanie Rauscher, Email: info@wpcf.at - Website: www.wpcf.at 10th Grand Prix Pattaya, Thailand, 26-30 July 2017. Festival and Grand Prix competition including 15 categories for all kind of choirs from around the world. Contact: Festa Musicale, Email: info@festamusicale.com - Website: www.festamusicale.com 12th Oratorio Choir Academy on Orchestra Conducting for Choral Conductors and Choir Atelier for Singers, Pecs, Hungary, 27 July-6 Aug 2017. The programme seemed to match my exact needs and desires. Contact: Zsolnay Heritage Management Nonprofit Ltd., RÊka Balog, Email: music_courses@zsn.hu - Website:
www.zsolnaynegyed.hu/ 6th International Campus Music Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, 28-31 July 2017. For youth choirs from all around the world. Contact: Internationaler Volkskulturkreis e.V., Email: kripp@volkskulturkreis.de - Website: www.volkskultur-de.org Ein Deutsches Requiem conducted by Timothy Brown, Horto, Greece, 29 July-5 Aug 2017. Singers are invited to participate in a choral course conducted by Timothy Brown in the Greek village of Horto. Contact: Foundation Angelinis - Hadjinikou, Email: info@horto.net - Website: www.horto.net/ Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 July-12 Aug 2017. The Monteverdi Legacy: Venetian Music from Monteverdi to Vivaldi (30 July- 6 Aug), led by Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments. Contact: Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools, Email: info@CambridgeEarlyMusic.org - Website: www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/
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International Choral Festival The Singing World, St. Petersburg, Russia, 4-9 Aug 2017. For choirs and vocal ensembles of various styles, levels and origins from all over the world. Contact: International Choral Festival and Competition, Email: Singingworld@mail.ru - Website: http://singingworld.spb.ru/en/ Africa Cantat, Kinshasa, DR Congo, 6-12 Aug 2017. Initiated by the African Confederation of Choral Music (ACCM) with the support of the Congolese Federation of Choral Music and the partnership of IFCM, A Coeur Joie International and Europa Cantat, the festival will be an ideal crossroad to discover and exchange around the rich authenticity of the African choral heritage. Contact: African Confederation for Choral Music, Email: info@ackinshasa2017.org - Website: www.ackinshasa2017.org/ 24th World Assembly of Choirs, Gospel, Soul and Prayer Zimriya Festival, Old Akko, Israel, 6-10 Aug 2017. Celebration of choral music including workshops with Anton Armstrong (USA): Gospel and Spiritual; Tim Brown (UK/Switzerland): The Power of Music to Communicate Prayer; Andre de Quadros (USA): Spirit, Song, and the World; Jua Amir (USA/France): Soul & Hip. Contact: ZIMRIYA, Email: harzimco@netvision.net.il - Website: www.zimriya.org.il Assisi Summer School, Italy, 6-13 Aug 2017. Directed by Dr. David Skinner. For experienced choral singers of all ages. Participants should have reasonable sight-reading ability or be prepared to study the music beforehand. Contact: RunBySingers, Email: info@runbysingers.org Website: www.runbysingers.org Ludlow Summer School, United Kingdom, 13-18 Aug 2017. A course for singers and instrumentalists led by Eamonn Dougan and Greg Skidmore. Repertoire: Polychoral Music in 17th Century Poland Contact: Lacock Courses, Andrew van der Beek, Email: avdb@lacock.org Website: www.lacock.org Lithuanian Choral Music Study Tour, Vilnius, Kaunas, Moletai, Lithuania, 21-25 Aug 2017. In collaboration with the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat, study tour for choral conductors and composers who wish to expand their horizons, obtain new contacts in a country that sang its way to Independence from the Soviet Union 26 years ago and learn from international world-class lecturers during annual Lithuanian choral conductors Summer Academy. Contact: Lithuanian Choral Association, Email: StudyTour2017@gmail.com - Website: http://www.europeanchoralassociation.org/index.php?id=916