World Choir Games 2014 - Programme

Headliners
Javier Busto
Javier Busto was born in Hondarribia (Gipuzkoa – Basque
Country) in 1949. He was a choir singer since childhood
and in his youth he was a member of various rock and
folk music groups.
He graduated in Medicine from the Valladolid University,
practising his profession nowadays, working as a family
doctor in Lezo (Gipuzkoa).
Busto has an autodidactic musical education and was initiated
into choir conducting by Maestro Erwin List. During
his university period, he became conductor of Ederki
Basque students’ choir in Valladolid (1971-1976), starting
to write his first choral songs.
He is the founder-conductor of the Eskifaia Choir in Hondarribia
(1978-1994), winning first prizes in Ejea de los
Caballeros, Tolosa, Avilés , Tours (France), Gorizia (Italy),
Spittal an der Dräu (Austria), Mainhausen and Marktoberdorf
(Germany). With his choir Kanta Cantemus Korua,
which he founded in 1995, Busto won first prizes in
Tours, France 1997 – 2007 and Tolosa 1999.
As a composer he won several prizes in Bilbao, Igualada,
Madrid and Tolosa and his scores are being published in
Basque Country (bustovega), France (A Coeur Joie), Great
Britain (Oxford University Press), Germany (Carus Verlag
and Ferrimontana), Sweden (Gehrmans Musikförlag)
and USA (Walton, Alliance Music Publishing and Santa
Bárbara).
Javier Busto is nowadays in demand throughout the
world as a guest conductor and as a member of the jury
in choral and composition contests. He has been requested
in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, USA and Venezuela.
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