WSCM 8 REPORT - World Symposium on Choral Music

Jakob Lorentzen (Denmark): L'enfant mourant.
Equal voices, harp and triangle. Text: H.C.Andersen / Bent Deegen
Voci Nobili, Norway. Conductor: Maria Gamborg Helbekkmo.
Harp: Tine Rehling.
Peter Bruun (Denmark): Peace.
Male choir a cappella. Text: W. Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Svanholm Singers, Sweden. Conductor: Sofia Söderberg-Eberhard.
Songbridge
The <strong>WSCM</strong> 8 Artistic Committee decided at an early stage of the planning to have a Songbridge. Since the
<strong>World</strong> <strong>Symposium</strong> in Rotterdam 1999 no Songbridge had been connected to a <strong>World</strong> <strong>Symposium</strong>. The idea
of the Songbridge Project, created by the Finnish conductor Erkki Pohjola, is to bring 3 or 4 children's choirs
from different parts of the world together. Each choir brings its own music including a commissioned
composition which partly includes the other children's choirs. In a Songbridge Camp all the choirs meet and
work together some days before presenting the result in a Songbridge Gala Concert.
The following choirs were selected by the International Songbridge Committee and the <strong>WSCM</strong> 8 Artistic
Committee as participants in the Songbridge Camp and <strong>WSCM</strong> 8:
Shenzhen Middle School Choir, China. Conductor: Mei Liu.
Magnificat Childrens Choir, Hungary. Conductor: Valéria Szebellédi.
Shallaway, Canada. Conductor: Susan Knight.
National Church Choir, Denmark. Conductor: Ole Faurschou.
Songbridge Artistic Director: Kari Ala-Pöllänen (Finland), assisted by Sanna Valvanne (Finland).
The Songbridge Camp took place in the city of Holstebro, Denmark, and was arranged and hosted by FUK,
The National Organisation of Children's and Youth Choirs in the Church of Denmark. After the Camp the
choirs went to Copenhagen and performed the Songbridge Gala in the Tivoli Concert Hall July 23.
Delegates
Totally, <strong>WSCM</strong> had 1.160 delegates including workshop holders, board members and guests from 70
countries. The following countries and number of delegates were represented, - please notice that the list
does not include participating choirs and their leaders:
AFRICA
Algeria 1
Burundi 1
Cameroon 1
Congo 1
Egypt 1
Ghana 2
Kenya 2
Mozambique 2
Namibia 1
Nigeria 1
South Africa 28
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