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Grado 2016 - Program Book

The Program Book of the 8th Isola del Sole – International Choir Competition and Festival. September 28 - October 02, 2016 Grado, Italy. Singing with friends on the Italian sunny island The sunny island of Grado and its numerous venues, short walking distances and a historic city centre as well as manifold touristic sights within the region of Trieste and Venice represent the perfect place for a meeting of international choirs. Special highlights are the appearances at the basilica Sant‘Eufemia in Grado and the basilica in Aquileia. Apart from participating in the competitions all choirs can dare to take part in the exciting experiment to swap conductors for a Friendship Concert and perform under the direction of another international conductor.

The Program Book of the 8th Isola del Sole – International Choir Competition and Festival. September 28 - October 02, 2016 Grado, Italy.

Singing with friends on the Italian sunny island

The sunny island of Grado and its numerous venues, short walking distances and a historic city centre as well as manifold touristic sights within the region of Trieste and Venice represent the perfect place for a meeting of international choirs. Special highlights are the appearances at the basilica Sant‘Eufemia in Grado and the basilica in Aquileia.

Apart from participating in the competitions all choirs can dare to take part in the exciting experiment to swap conductors for a Friendship Concert and perform under the direction of another international conductor.

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31<br />

Lettonia / Latvia<br />

Selga Mence<br />

Giuria / Jury<br />

Selga Mence è una compositrice che ha<br />

acquisito una significativa importanza<br />

sia nel panorama della musica corale<br />

lettone sia a livello internazionale per<br />

le sue composizioni da camera vocali e<br />

strumentali. Diplomata in composizione<br />

al Latvian State Conservatory, dal 1985<br />

è lettrice alla Latvian Academy of Music,<br />

dove attualmente insegna e dove dirige il<br />

Dipartimento di Composizione.<br />

La musica di Selga Mence è stata eseguita dal<br />

Coro della Radio della Lettonia (Latvian Radio<br />

Choir), dallo State Choir Latvija, ai Latvian<br />

National Song Festivals nonché in occasione<br />

di numerosi festival internazionali, dove<br />

molti cori esecutori dei suoi brani hanno<br />

anche ottenuto premi e riconoscimenti. Le<br />

sue vibranti emozioni, le gioiose immagini<br />

musicali, l’amore e il rispetto per la<br />

musica popolare, per le tradizioni e per la<br />

cultura del suo Paese trovano la migliore<br />

espressione nelle sue composizioni corali.<br />

Le melodie popolari lettoni e i testi (spesso<br />

annullando il confine tra arrangiamento<br />

di canto popolare e musica originale)<br />

sono collegate alle tradizione romantica<br />

locale ma sviluppate attraverso tecniche<br />

compositive contemporanee. Le opere di<br />

Selga Mence sperimentano sonorità e giochi<br />

d’improvvisazione tecnici caratteristici della<br />

musica aleatorica.<br />

Selga Mence – a composer, who has<br />

gradually taken her place as one of Latvia’s<br />

significant composers of choral music, as<br />

well as vocal and instrumental chamber<br />

works. She studied composition at Latvian<br />

State Conservatory. Since 1985 she has been<br />

working as a lecturer at the Latvian Academy<br />

of Music and is currently a professor and<br />

head of the Composition Department.<br />

Mence’s choral music has been performed by<br />

the The Latvian Radio Choir, the State Choir<br />

Latvija, at Latvian National Song Festivals<br />

as well as various festivals outside Latvia.<br />

Many choirs performing her works won at<br />

victory titles in international competitions.<br />

Selga Mence’s vivid emotions, lively musical<br />

images, admiration for Latvian folk songs<br />

and their traditional and firm ethos find<br />

their expression in choir songs. Popular<br />

Latvian folk melodies and texts (often<br />

blurring the boundaries between folksong<br />

arrangements and original music) are<br />

related to the national romantic tradition<br />

but are developed through contemporary<br />

compositional techniques. The compositions<br />

of Selga Mence explore sonorities and<br />

improvisation games characteristic to the<br />

aleatoric technique. Melodic material as one<br />

the most important facets of her music is<br />

purposefully and logically developed to set<br />

the work alight.

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