List of choral festivals
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The following is an incomplete list of choral festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on choral music.[1] The topic will have some or complete overlap with the list of opera festivals, list of early music festivals, and list of Bach festivals.

Festivals

Festival name Location Years Notes
International Stasys Šimkus choir competitionKlaipėda, Lithuania1976–presentCompetition is open to mixed, male, female, youth, children‘s choirs, sacred music, vocal ensembles, folk choirs.
Festival de Música Coral Renascentista Gil de Roca SalesBrazil2017–presentChoirs performing "a capella" renaissance music in Porto Alegre in honoring the conductor Gil de Roca Sales.
Festival de Coros del Fin del Mundo Ushuaia, Argentina 2019 - present International Choral Festival. Concerts, workshops, conferences and forums with professional live broadcastings.
American Music Performance Invitational for Mixed ChoirsUnited States2011–presentseries of music festivals for top school choirs
Cincinnati May FestivalCincinnati, United States1873–presentfestival roots go back to the 1840s
Cork International Choral FestivalCork, Ireland1954–presentfeatures choirs from all over the world
Festival 500St. John's, Canada1997–2013International biennial non-competitive choral music festival
Ihlombé! Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, South Africa 2009-present Organized by Classical Movements[2]
Intervarsity Choral Festival (Australia)Australia1950–presentmembers of university choirs from all state capitals of Australia meet for two weeks
InterVarsity Choral Festival (Canada)Canada1949–presentuniversity choirs from Ontario and Quebec, Canada, meet up and perform a combined concert.
Corearte FestivalBarcelona, Spain2007–presentInternational Corearte Choir Festival Barcelona , every year in October.
Lago di Garda Music FestivalLago di Garda, Italy2007–presentInternational Festival is non-competitive
MasterWorks FestivalCedarville, United States1997–presentmonth-long summer training program for classical performing artists
Nordic Student Singers' SummitScandinavia1987–presentarranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.
Ohrid Choir FestivalOhrid, North Macedoniaheld in the second half of August
PICCFESTEugene, United States1998–presenttreble choir festival held in conjunction with Oregon Bach Festival
Three Choirs FestivalUnited Kingdom1719–presentAlternates between three churches
Universitas CantatPoznań, Poland1998–presentInternational Festival of University Choirs is non-competitive
Nordic-Baltic Choral FestivalEurope1995–2015Music festival for Nordic and Baltic choirs. Nominally biennial, but only eight held in the period.
Musica Orbis Prague Festival Prague, Czech Republic 2019–present International festival for non-professional choirs and orchestras, every year at the turn of June and July.
Summa Cum Laude FestivalVienna, Austria2007–presentInternational Festival for Choirs and Orchestras, every year in early July with a competition in the Wiener Musikverein
International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest of TorreviejaTorrevieja, Spain1955–presentInternational annual choral competition held in July specialized in habaneras and polyphony. It also holds a junior contest.
World Choir Games Worldwide 2000 - present Largest worldwide choral festival and competition held biennially in a preselected host city, organised by the Interkultur Foundation

See also

References

  1. Page, Anne, B mus. "Of Choristers – ancient and modern, A history of cathedral choir schools Archived 2006-09-23 at the Wayback Machine". ofchoristers.net .
  2. "Choirs honour Mandela at Ihlombe! SA Fest". Music In Africa. 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
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