Norges Ungdomskor mottar støtte til bestillingsverk

Love me

heter stykket som vil bli skrevet til Norges Ungdomskor 2014 av komponist Martin Ødegaard.

I 2014 vil Norges Ungdomskor ta turen til England sammen med dirigent Vivianne Sydnes. På programmet står norsk og engelsk kirkemusikk, samt norsk folkemusikk, som skal framføres i katedraler flere steder i England. Verket som Ødegaard skal skrive vil relatere til motetten "If ye love me" av Thomas Tallis, og forener vokalstilen fra engelsk renessanse med norsk/samisk folkemusikk og forskjellige typer improvisasjon.

Martin Ødegaard ble født i Telemark i 1983. Etter studier i folkemusikk med Anne Gravir og Sondre Bratland, studerer han nå komposisjon ved Norges Musikkhøgskole for Bjørn Kruse, Henrik Hellstenius og Lasse Thoresen. Martin har skrevet en rekke verk bl.a. for kor, og blander gjerne inn elementer av folkemusikk i musikken. Martin har fått flere priser for sin musikk, og inngår i Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe.

Norges Ungdomskor vil også framføre verket Love me på konsert i Johanneskirken i Bergen 4.august og i Oslo Domkirke 5.august 2014.

Ung i Kors Julequiz

14.desember

The Real Group fra Sverige synger julen inn. Hvor mange sanger er det i denne julemedleyen? 

Komposisjonskonkurranse - IFCM

IFCM has announced the 2nd International Competition for Choral Composers. The winning composer will receive a Prize of 5.000 EUR and the winning composition will be performed by the Philippine Madrigal Singers and used in a workshop with Voces8. For further information and the exact regulations see http://icb.ifcm.net/?page_id=314

European Award for Choral Composers (EACC)

Ønsker du å delta med en eller flere komposisjoner i European Award for Choral Composers, må du sende bidraget via oss innen 27. februar 2012.


Attached you will find the rules and regulations for the new European Award for Choral Composers which is the successor to the successful Golden Tuning Fork Award, run since 1988 by AGEC. The award, which was also shortly presented at our General Assembly, will have three different categories: 


(a) a cappella choir (classical)
(b) choir accompanied by up to four instrument (classical)
(c) jazz composition for a cappella choir or choir accompanied by up to three instruments. 


Only member organisations of the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat may submit compositions until March 1st 2012, and the winning compositions will be premiered at the EUROPA CANTAT XVIII festival in Turin in 2012. 

If you have got further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us! info@europeanchoralassociation.org
 


REGULATIONS
1. Organization

• The competition for the EACC is held every year. 
• The announcement of the competition will be made by the ECA-EC as well as by the national and regional member federations. 
• Choral compositions can only be nominated by a national or regional federation, member of ECAEC, and have to be sent in PDF format to the office of the ECA-EC before the 1st of March 2012. 
• A composition which has received an award in any other competition, may not be submitted. It may, however, have been performed and/or published.  
• A composition may not be entered for this competition more than twice. 
• The submitted compositions have to be accompanied by the artistic curriculum of the composer, 
• mentioning his or her date of birth and the year when the work was written, and the duration of the piece. 
• The office distributes the received scores to the members of the jury anonymously. (ie without the composer’s name, sex, age or nationality)   
• The jury examines the scores, taking its decisions before the end of the current year. The results will be communicated immediately to the participating federations.  

2. The competitors and their works 

• Each composition can be submitted to one of the following three categories: 

1. choir a cappella (classical) 
2. choir accompanied by up to four instrument (classical)
3. a jazz composition for choir a cappella or accompanied by up to three instruments. 

• All compositions should be able to be performed by good average choirs.  
• Up to three works in each category can be nominated by the same choral federation, composed by one or different authors within the past five years. 
• The choice of the text is free, on the condition that the composer is formally authorized by the author or editor to use this text (if appropriate). 
• Every choral formation from three to eight vocal parts is possible (mixed or equal voices). 
• The performance time of a composition is limited between minimum three and maximum nine minutes.  

3. The jury and the quotation

• The admitted compositions are quoted by a jury of minimum four members, together with the president of the ECA music commission (five members overall), all choral conductors or composers.  
• The jury will deliberate and decide amongst themselves, the winner of each category. There will be a winner for each section (1), (2) and (3). The jury reserves the right not to nominate a winner in any of the categories. 
• The jury has the right of interpretation of the rules in case of unforeseen elements. 
• The decision of the jury is final and cannot be challenged. 

4. Awards

• Each awarded work will be performed at least once by the good care of the national of regional federation of its origin and this before the end of the year following the year of awarding. 
• By the good care of the ECA-EC each awarded work will be programmed within a reasonable term by the EuroChoir and/or at another choral event organized by ECA-EC or one of its members.   
• ECA-EC will use their best endeavours to promote the publication and the spreading of the awarded scores.  

5. Acceptance agreement

• The board of ECAEC as well as the participating national and regional federations and the participating composers accept the rules of the European Award for Choral Composers as a whole. 

Nyheter fra European Choral Association - Europa Cantat

Newsflash, November 2011






EUROPA CANTAT festival in Turin 2012 - Deadline for applications approaching

The festival in Turin from 27th July to 5th August 2012 will offer more than 50 ateliers with different musical genres for choirs and individual singers of any level. There will also be offers for conductors and composers and training courses for young managers as well as Open Singing, concerts, fringe programmes and much more (more n our Press Release >> here). Are you ready to apply? You can now register online on www.ectorino2012.it. Those applying before 30th November 2011 will be guaranteed to attend one of the ateliers of their choice!

World Youth Choir sings for Nobel Peace Prize winners/ World Youth Choir 2012 session in Cyprus

We are proud to announce that the World Youth Choir will participate at different events in the frame of the Nobel Peace Prize Award in Oslo on December 19th and 11th and will give a solo concert in Oslo University’s Ceremonial Hall on Friday December 9th. More information in the Press Release >> here. / The World Youth Choir session 2012 will be held in Cyprus and will include a tour to Greece and Turkey. Further information on the session and the auditions on www.worldyouthchoir.org.


Michal Hájek successful in conductors‘ competition

At the International Competition for Young conductors in Hungary, 29-year old conductor Michal Hájek from Czech Republic won the overall 1st prize as well as the special prize of the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat which consists in an (assistant) conductorship at the EUROPA CANTAT festival in 2015. Michal convinced the jury with his conducting technique and his communication skills. The 2nd prize was won by Ruut Kiiski from Finland, the third prize went to Matteo Valbusa from Italy. >>more

European Choral Association - Europa Cantat and IMC World Forum on Music
We are proud to report that the Hearts-in-Harmony project in Barcelona was one of the three winners of the IMC Musical Rights Awards 2011, as projected of SCIC (Secretariat de Corals Infantils de Catalunya) nominated by the European Choral Association- Europa Cantat together with the Moviment Coral Català. More in the official Press Release >> here and on our website >> here. The Prize was awarded in the frame of the World Forum on Music of the International and European Music Council (see www.worldforumonmusic.org) at which our association was also present with several project presentations, a delegation of representatives from different choral associations and at the infomarket. At the General Assembly following the forum, our Secretary General Sonja Greiner was elected Treasurer of the International Music Council. You will find the full composition of the Board >> here.


Further news on our Association on http://www.europeanchoralassociation.org/news under the following headlines:Turin welcomes General Assembly with a view to the 2012 festival
ECmagazine 3/2011 available online for members
World Choral Day on December 12th 2011
Bonn greets Turin - Torino Vocal Ensemble and Carlo Pavese in Bonn
European Award for Choral Composers
Composition Competition in association with the European Academy for Conductors in Graz 

Concerts and Workshop with Netherlands Youth Choir in Dortmund
European Choral Association - Europa Cantat at different music fairs

Summer Activities 2011


News from IFCM
The International Federation for Choral Music elected a new Board at the General Assembly in the frame of the 9th World Symposium on Choral Music in Puerto Madryn. Michael Anderson (USA) was elected President, further members on the Executive Board are Leon Tong (Hong Kong, China), Philip Brunelle (USA), Saeko Hasegawa (Japan), Stephen Leek (Australia), Theodora Pavlovitch (Bulgaria) and Hakan Wickström (Finland). For further information see www.ifcm.net and for the full Board see >> here.

News from Culture Action Europe / We Are More campaign
Culture Action Europe, which held its General Assembly on 19 October 2011 in Brussels, also elected a new Executive Committee with Mercedes Giovinazzo. More on www.cultureactioneurope.org and  >> here. The General Assembly discussed further steps for the We Are More campaign which was also mentioned several times during the European Cultural Forum the following days. In November Culture Action Europe published a vacancy announcement for the post of Secretary General. More >> here.

News from Choral Festival Network
Kaie Tanner has been elected President of the Choral Festival Network during the online General Assembly on November 21st and 22nd 2011. Further Board members are Vice-President Jeroen Schrijner, Treasurer Sebastian Pflüger, Secretary General Simonne Cleays as well as Board members Maria Elina Mayorga and Dolf Rabus. More about the Choral Festival Network on www.choralfestivalnetwork.org

News from Musica International
Musica International is offering a new membership advantage to is member organisations. From January 2012 the individual members and member organsiations of the European Choral Association - Europa Cantat will have privileged access to the Musica Database from the password-protected membership section on our website. More about Musica International on www.musicanet.org