The XXIII Worldwide Stasios Šimkaus Choir Competitors is coming Tradition

For greater than 48 years, the competitors developed by Klaipėda metropolis choirmasters, later Klaipėda metropolis choral affiliation “Aukuras”, has developed into a world choir competitors. Its creators and most important organizers – Assoc. Vytautas Blūšius, Assoc. Robert Varno, prof. Due to the efforts of Algis Zabor and the present board of the Klaipėda metropolis choral neighborhood “Aukuras”, the competitors has develop into a strong phenomenon of choral tradition, which has its personal traditions, has gathered nice expertise, is a acknowledged worldwide occasion of the choral style and is well-known not solely in Klaipėda, Lithuania, Europe, but in addition extra broadly. .

Organizers’ picture/Riga Technical College Combined Choir “Vivere”

This competitors, which is legendary as a contest for which well-known Lithuanian and international teams of excessive creative stage are chosen. Distinguished Lithuanian and international choirmasters take part within the work of the competitors analysis committee. The worldwide competitors in Klaipėda is a continuation of the Klaipėda choral traditions, supplementing them with a choir competitors, and on the identical time spreading and recognizing our metropolis within the worldwide area. In fact, for the town of Klaipėda, this can be a nice and distinctive honor, and a substantial accountability.

Organizers’ picture/Girls’s choir “Korallerna”, Sweden

The XXIII worldwide Stasios Šimkaus Choir Competitors will happen at present. m. on Might 16-19 within the Klaipėda live performance corridor (Šaulių st. 36) and within the Klaipėda Martija Queen of Peace church (Rumpiškės st. 6, Klaipėda). The organizers are Klaipėda Metropolis Choir Society “Aukuras”, along with Klaipėda Metropolis Municipality and the Lithuanian Nationwide Cultural Heart.

This 12 months, over 20 collectives from Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, Sweden, Ghana, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Lithuania are going to take part within the competitors.

The chairman of the competitors fee, probably the most well-known representatives of Polish sacred and choral music on the earth, choir conductor and composer prof. Dr. Paweł Łukaszewski.

Organizers’ picture/Youngsters’s choir “Lastivka” of the youngsters’s and youth inventive home of Holosiivskii district of Kyiv

Along with the choir competitors, on Might 16-19, greater than 10 live shows of the competitors members are deliberate, which can happen in: Klaipėda, Palanga, Kretinga, Plungė. And on the opening live performance of the competitors, which can happen on Might 16. 5:00 p.m. Kaunas Tradition Heart Combined Choir “Kamertonas”, conductor Kęstutis Jakeliūnas, winner of the Nice Amber Prize of the twenty first Worldwide Stasios Šimkaus Choir Competitors of 2018, will carry out within the Klaipėda Live performance Corridor.

Through the competitors and live shows, we’ll hear well-known choirs: the great ladies’s choir “Korallerna” from Sweden, probably the most well-known kids’s choirs from Ukraine – the youngsters’s choir “Lastivka” of the youngsters’s and youth inventive home of Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, the well-known educational combined choir from the Warsaw College of Know-how, the wonderful Riga Technical College the college combined choir “Vivere” and the Latvian Academy of Tradition combined choir “Sōla”, in addition to many different well-known choirs. We might have teams even from Ghana and Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo. We may even hear the well-known choirs of our nation: the Vytautas Magnus College Training Academy choir “Ave vita”, the youthful chamber choir of the Šiauliai Cultural Heart “Atžalynas”, and Klaipėda shall be represented within the competitors by the well-known glorious combined choir of the Fisherman’s Palace “Cantare” of the Klaipėda Metropolis Municipality Cultural Heart.

Organizers’ picture/Cantare Choir

Along with the competitors and live shows, within the Klaipėda live performance corridor (Šaulių st. 36) on Might 19 9:30 a.m. there shall be a dialogue – a seminar on the spherical desk for the members and friends of the competitors, which shall be led by the analysis committee of the competitors, and different occasions are deliberate.

We hope to get loads of consideration from the viewers each on the competitors itself and on the live shows of the members of the competitors, and we welcome all choir conductors, music lecturers and those that need to study extra regarding world and European choral music and its present affairs within the discussions – seminar.