About Us: Alegria Chamber Choir was founded in July 2000 by a group of amateur music enthusiasts from different professions under the guidance of its founding Musical Director M. İnci Tığlı Ayağ. Since its foundation, Alegria Chamber Choir has been performing under... moreAlegria Chamber Choir was founded in July 2000 by a group of amateur music enthusiasts from different professions under the guidance of its founding Musical Director M. İnci Tığlı Ayağ. Since its foundation, Alegria Chamber Choir has been performing under the guidance of conductor İnci Tığlı Ayağ and assistant conductor Gözde Saatçioğlu. Between 2002 and 2008, Alegria Chamber Choir performed under the scope of Ankara Çoksesli Müzik Derneği (Ankara Polyphonic Music Association), a prestigious association which was founded in 1974. Since 2008, the choir has been extending his repertoire and performing fully independently as a non-profit and non-governmental organization.
The purpose of Alegria is to introduce to large audiences the world’s choir repertoire from different periods and regions. Alegria has now about 30 members divided into four voices and performs music dating from the Renaissance to Contemporary in all styles such as sacred and folk. Along with the polyphonic arrangements of Turkish musical pieces, many songs in various languages have found their place in Algeria’s extensive repertoire.
The vision of Alegria in Turkey is to reach a wide spectrum of music-lovers. In Turkey, it aims to introduce the not-before-performed polyphonic works of art to music enthusiasts, and educate the people in underdeveloped regions of Turkey, where exposure to polyphonic music has been very limited. Internationally, its vision can be summarized as introducing and representing Turkey and the Turkish culture to the world, and establishing strong and long-term partnerships with organizations in the European Union for healthy and fruitful cultural exchange.
Under İnci Tığlı’s conductance, Alegria attended many concerts and performed in many festivals in various parts of Turkey, and abroad such as in Italy (Sardinia Island Nouro Concerts Series) and in Macedonia (Ohrid Choir Festival). Alegria has also taken part in the “Voice of Anatolia” project, in which polyphonic arrangements of folkloric music from a diverse set of regions in Turkey were performed in the company of an orchestra, the Voice of the Bosphorus Music Ensemble (Boğazın Sesi Müzik Topluluğu), which consists of classical western and ethnical oriental musical instruments. Additionally, the choir has shared the stage with Maliye Theatre, a non-governmental organization, and aimed to convey to the Turkish audience that polyphonic music could be used effectively and artistically in the art of theatre.
Most recently, Alegria has been staging a project named ‘Anatolia: Tones, Ballads, and Stories’, a project that highlights the folkloric inheritance of Turkey with its music and dances. An aspiration of Alegria is to broaden the scope of this project by expanding via the inclusion of choirs and dance groups from other countries.
Some of the festivals and competitions that Alegria took part up to today may be listed as follows:
• Altı Nokta Körler Derneği (Alti Nokta Association for the Blind) Choir Festival,
• 22nd International Çorum Hittite Festival,
• 3rd International Ankara Choir Festival (3rd place in folkloric category),
• Italy 29th International Rassegna Internazionale Corali Polifoniche Festival,
• 2001 Ankara Polyphonic Music Association International Choir Competition (3rd place)
• 2004 International Ankara Choir Competition (4th place in folkloric category),
• 2007 Macedonia Tetovo Choir Festival,
• 2008 Macedonia Ohrid Choir Festival,
• 2009 1st Antalya International Choir Festival (3rd place in mixed-voice choirs category),
• 2010 and 2011, Istanbul Choir Days.
Additionally, in June 2009, as part of the “Two Choirs, Two Cities, Two Concerts” project, Alegria has performed in Istanbul and Ankara under the title of “Koro Kardeşliği” (Fellowship of the Choirs) and in 2010, “Anatolia: Tones, Ballads, and Stories” was presented to audiences in Hannover, Germany.
Alegria is scheduled to give two concerts in Hannover, Germany in June 2010.
Repertoire
Alegria has an extensive repertoire of many polyphonic arrangements of musical pieces in Turkish as well as in other languages.
Alegria has been performing compositions and arrangements of many Turkish artists including Hayri Akay, Cenan Akın, Necip Kazım Akses, Muzaffer Arkan, İnci Atak, İlhan Baran, Sahip Egüz, U. Cemal Erkin, M. Sabahattin Ezgi, Nevit Kodallı, Adnan Saygun, Ali Sevgi, Musa Süreyya, Muhip Şanal, Ziya Aydın Tan, and Erdal Tuğcular.
Compositions and arrangements of other respected artists include W. Amadeus Mozart, Anders Ohrwall, Franz Schubert, Fanny Hensel, Heikki Klemetti, Kurt Neuhauser, Heinz Lemmermann, Claudio Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, Lajos Bardos, Horvath Adam, William Trost, Kristo Odak, Hans Leo Hassler, Francis Poulenc, Joseph Haydn, Gene Glickman, R. Schumann, Dave Brubeck, Georg Friedrich Handel, Wolfgang Kelber, Jasquin Desprez, Noble Cain, Juan Del Encina, Ludwig Senfil, Jaques Arcadelt, Orlando De Lassus, Clement Janequin, Pierre Certon, Jaques Arcadelt, Pierre Passereau, John Wilbye, A.V. Aleksandrova, Z. Randalı Stroope, K.F. Jehrlander, Karl Off, David N. Childs, WM. Henry Smith, Lens Johansen, William L. Dawson, N. Aliverdibeyov, Carol, Arvo Part, Ralph Paulsen –Bahnsen, Zoltan Kodaly, Brant Adams, Robert Sund, PierreAttaingnant, Donals Mc Collough, Zwi Sherf, Johannes Brahms, and Gustaf Nordovist.
In addition, Alegria owns the copyrights of five arrangements made by Jonathan Rathbone, who undertook the positions of arranger and producer of Swingle Singers for many years. less
Additional names: Alegria Oda Korosu
Location: Büyük Tiyatro, Opera, Ankara, Ankara, Turkey [map]
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