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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EUROVISION CHOIR <strong>2019</strong><br />
A brand new international TV competition was<br />
launched on July 22, 2017 and is inspired by the<br />
Eurovision Song Contest and the World Choir<br />
Games – celebrating choral singing and bringing<br />
together the most popular singing competition<br />
in Europe and the largest international choir<br />
competition in the world.<br />
EUROVISION CHOIR showcases choral singing<br />
as the most natural way to make music together<br />
and show what is possible when combining little<br />
more than human voices. Top-class amateur<br />
choirs present their outstanding singing skills to<br />
a Europe-wide audience.<br />
Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017 featured<br />
Europe’s best amateur choirs who traveled to<br />
Riga and competed for the title Eurovision Choir<br />
of the Year. Carmen Manet from Slovenia won the<br />
inaugural competition.<br />
The second edition of Eurovision Choir takes<br />
place on Saturday, August 3, <strong>2019</strong> at the Partille<br />
Arena in <strong>Gothenburg</strong>, Sweden. 10 of Europe’s<br />
best amateur choirs will try to impress a panel<br />
of international choral music stars by performing<br />
an unaccompanied selection of music in a variety<br />
of styles.<br />
The show will be hosted by the BBC‘s Petroc<br />
Trelawny and SVT‘s Ella Petterson and adjudicated<br />
by Sweden’s Katarina Henryson, a founding<br />
member of pioneering a cappella ensemble The<br />
Real Group, British composer and conductor<br />
John Rutter and US producer and arranger Deke<br />
Sharon.<br />
The winning choir of Eurovision Choir <strong>2019</strong> will<br />
not only get a trophy and the title „Eurovision<br />
Choir <strong>2019</strong>“. INTERKULTUR will also offer an<br />
all-inclusive trip to the World Choir Games 2020,<br />
taking place from July 5-15, 2020 in Flanders,<br />
Belgium.
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