Gothenburg 2019 - Program Book
GRAND PRIX OF NATIONS GOTHENBURG 2019 & 4TH EUROPEAN CHOIR GAMES August 3 - 10, 2019 Gothenburg, Sweden Sing with a nation of choristers! Austria, Germany and Latvia were already hosts for one of the most prestigious European choir competitions, the European Choir Games. In 2019 the 4th edition of the event will once again take place and explore a new destination: Sweden – nation of choristers! With approximately 600 000 singers, choir singing is one of Sweden’s most popular movements and the country is thus a perfect location for this international singing event. The host city for the event has been well chosen: Gothenburg, the country’s second largest city, is a genuine music city where music is close to people’s hearts. It has a lively alternative music culture and big arena stages. Culture and the arts take center stage in Gothenburg. Singers from all over the world are invited to join, compete and celebrate a grand festival of choral music in Sweden at the Grand Prix of Nations Gothenburg 2019 & 4th European Choir Games.
GRAND PRIX OF NATIONS GOTHENBURG 2019 & 4TH EUROPEAN CHOIR GAMES
August 3 - 10, 2019 Gothenburg, Sweden
Sing with a nation of choristers!
Austria, Germany and Latvia were already hosts for one of the most prestigious European choir competitions, the European Choir Games. In 2019 the 4th edition of the event will once again take place and explore a new destination: Sweden – nation of choristers!
With approximately 600 000 singers, choir singing is one of Sweden’s most popular movements and the country is thus a perfect location for this international singing event.
The host city for the event has been well chosen: Gothenburg, the country’s second largest city, is a genuine music city where music is close to people’s hearts. It has a lively alternative music culture and big arena stages. Culture and the arts take center stage in Gothenburg.
Singers from all over the world are invited to join, compete and celebrate a grand festival of choral music in Sweden at the Grand Prix of Nations Gothenburg 2019 & 4th European Choir Games.
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Giovanni Acciai<br />
Italy<br />
– Graduated in organ, composition and choir conducting at Milan<br />
Conservatory "G. Verdi"<br />
– Teaches performing practice of early music and early music<br />
paleography at Milan Conservatory and publishes articles and reviews<br />
in this field<br />
– Conductor of vocal ensemble “I solisti del madrigal” and “Nova Ars<br />
Cantandi” and jury member at national and international choir contests<br />
and at the World Choir Games<br />
– Artistic Director of the Academy of Ancient Music in Milan<br />
– Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council<br />
Kari Ala-Pöllänen<br />
Finland<br />
– Past conductor and artistic director of the Tapiola choir and Vox Aurea<br />
choir with having performed on all continents<br />
– Music teacher, musician in symphony orchestra and folk and jazz<br />
genres, conductor, and juror<br />
– Artistic Director of festivals, chair of the IFCM Songbridge Artistic<br />
Committee<br />
– Pro Finlandia Medal, the highest recognition for arts by the President<br />
of the Republic of Finland, the UNESCO Prize 1996 for Performing Arts /<br />
the Tapiola choir, subject of the doctoral thesis
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