Puccini 2015 - Program Book
1st International Choir Festival Puccini 2015 September 30 - October 4, 2015 | Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca), Italy The town of Torre del Lago Puccini in Viareggio in the Tuscan Versilia is a picturesque place to combine choral art and touristic activities. Puccini lived in this idyllic area for several years and now, every summer, performances of his famous operas take place in the huge open-air theater. Places like Pisa, whose Leaning Tower can be seen from Torre Del Lago Puccini, or Lucca, Massa Carrara and La Spezia (Liguria) are really fantastic places for those keen on organizing excursions in the surrounding area. With this festival, INTEKULTUR will expand its activities in Italy and thus help attract more interest and demands for such unique festival venues, especially in the Mediterranean regions of Europe. And, of course, our competent INTERKULTUR team will make sure that this festival in Tuscany, like all our events, is a brilliant experience for every choir. Regardless of whether you intend to participate in friendship concerts or want to be active participants in the competition, you will find an exactly specified program tailored to your needs.
1st International Choir Festival Puccini 2015
September 30 - October 4, 2015 | Torre del Lago Puccini (Lucca), Italy
The town of Torre del Lago Puccini in Viareggio in the Tuscan Versilia is a picturesque place to combine choral art and touristic activities.
Puccini lived in this idyllic area for several years and now, every summer, performances of his famous operas take place in the huge open-air theater.
Places like Pisa, whose Leaning Tower can be seen from Torre Del Lago Puccini, or Lucca, Massa Carrara and La Spezia (Liguria) are really fantastic places for those keen on organizing excursions in the surrounding area. With this festival, INTEKULTUR will expand its activities in Italy and thus help attract more interest and demands for such unique festival venues, especially in the Mediterranean regions of Europe. And, of course, our competent INTERKULTUR team will make sure that this festival in Tuscany, like all our events, is a brilliant experience for every choir. Regardless of whether you intend to participate in friendship concerts or want to be active participants in the competition, you will find an exactly specified program tailored to your needs.
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Romāns Vanags is a graduate of Emils Darzins’ specialized<br />
music college and of the Department of Choir and Orchestra<br />
Conducting of Jazeps Vitols’ Latvian State Conservatory in<br />
Riga (now named the Latvian Music Academy). He has<br />
received a diploma in choir conducting as well as in music<br />
pedagogy. In addition, he studied symphonic orchestra<br />
conducting. In 2003, Vanags received the professional<br />
master’s degree in music. His professional work is focused<br />
on conducting and pedagogy. He has been the Chief<br />
Conductor of the teachers’ choir “Vanema” from 1984-2004<br />
and since 1990, he has been the principal Conductor of the<br />
Latvian University female choir “Minjona”. Since 1987, he<br />
has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of Jāzeps<br />
Mediņš Music School boys` choir and has worked with the<br />
Jazeps Medins Music College Symphonic Orchestra from<br />
1990-1993. From 1987 thru 1994, Vanags was employed<br />
at the Latvian Music Academy in Riga as professor of choir<br />
conducting and as the conductor of the academy choir.<br />
Since 2005, he is the head of the Conducting Department<br />
of the Latvian Academy of Music. Vanags has been the<br />
organizer of various courses for conductors in numerous<br />
countries around the world and also a jury member for<br />
many international choral competitions. He has also been<br />
appointed as one of the chief conductors of the Latvian<br />
Song and Dance Festival and the Youth Song Festival.<br />
Since 2004, Vanags is the chairman of the Latvian National<br />
Commission for UNESCO on the Latvian Song and Dance<br />
Festival, and since 2008, he is also a member of the World<br />
Choir Council at INTERKULTUR’S World Choir Games. The<br />
choirs conducted by Romāns Vanags have won numerous<br />
awards at international competitions (Arezzo, Debrecen,<br />
Tour, Varna etc.) and made concert tours all over the<br />
world. In 2008 Romāns Vanags received the highest civil<br />
decoration in Latvia, the Three Star Order. Since October<br />
2014, he is one of the Artistic Directors of INTERKULTUR.
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