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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Lena Ekman Frisk<br />
Sweden<br />
– Senior Lecturer at Malmö Academy of Music and Director at Southern<br />
Choral Centre, Lund University, Sweden<br />
– Former president of Swedish Choral Directors Association<br />
– International adjudicator and guest lecturer<br />
– Conductor of the Malmö Academy of Music Women's Chorus and<br />
Christianstad's Motet Choir<br />
Jürgen Faßbender<br />
Germany<br />
– First Prize Winner of many international choir competitions<br />
– Repeated Prize Winner of the German Choir Competition<br />
– Editor of „Reine Männersache“, „Reine Frauensache“ Edition Peters<br />
– International Juror, lecturer and guest conductor<br />
– Member of the INTERKULTUR World Choir Council
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