Balkanika Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Performers: Ethnic vocal ensemble Carmina Slovenica SToP (Slovene project for percussion instruments) Nino Mureškič with Jam-bashi, percussion Vasko Atanasovski, wind instruments ...  moreBalkanika Author of the project and conductor: Karmina Šilec Performers: Ethnic vocal ensemble Carmina Slovenica SToP (Slovene project for percussion instruments) Nino Mureškič with Jam-bashi, percussion Vasko Atanasovski, wind instruments Janez Dovč, accordion Ensemble Kebataola Zvezdana Novakovič and Eva Bračič, ethno vocals Sandra Grahovac, Katja Lipovača, Nežka Struc, authentical voices Darko Rošker, tuba Jasna Vantur, celesta Nadja Stegne, violin Marina Gumzi, storyteller Light designer: David Orešič Sound designer: Danilo Ženko The project Balkanika is a fresh selection of music for voices and percussion instruments. The repertoire is variegated and coloured with ethnical atmosphere of European north and south in their characteristic vocal techniques. The programme consists of diverse musical works: from Ukranian ethnical solo voice with quartet of percussion instruments, the Swedish ethnical duet with timpani, Indian singing to vigorous Balkan ethnical music. Avantg...    less

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a setting by composer Elani Willemse, of the poem of the same title by William Wordsworth, telling of the poet's melancholic experience of loneliness within his daily existance and how this melancholy is briefly relieved ...  more"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a setting by composer Elani Willemse, of the poem of the same title by William Wordsworth, telling of the poet's melancholic experience of loneliness within his daily existance and how this melancholy is briefly relieved upon encountering a vast and beautiful field of daffodils. The melody paints the landscape, written in a minor key, which is then resolved to the major when his sadness finds resolution in this beauty that he experienced. Synaesthesia is incorporated by using specific harmonies and rhythmic patterns to imitate what the composer might imagine the poet saw, and the emotions he felt. This ultimately transforming the piece into a choral musical painting.  less

Premiered: Aug. 23, 2020 www.OceanGrove.org

Voces Blancas del Nalón (VOBLANA) Choral project is located in Langreo, Asturias, northern Spain. Since 2009 and thanks to his founder, Oscar Allen, the Choral project has been working with young singers and developing young voices to excell in the interp...  moreVoces Blancas del Nalón (VOBLANA) Choral project is located in Langreo, Asturias, northern Spain. Since 2009 and thanks to his founder, Oscar Allen, the Choral project has been working with young singers and developing young voices to excell in the interpretation and enjoyment of choral music and group singing. Due to an intensive and hard work, its members receive a full choral and scenic education, structured in the vocal individual technique and its different types of sound emission; on the development of corporal skills expression, and in the grupal practice of the choral exercise. This education is complemented by the permanent contact with other artistic disciplines as ballet and theatre are. Even though the repertoire performed is diverse and heterogeneous, its preferences are focused on the amazing generation of current Spanish composers and the beautiful treatment given by them to the voice. It is formed by girls and boys between 6 and 28 years old, most of them current or past students at th...    less

Hear My Prayer by Henry Purcell. Live Performance by the Madison Choral project, Albert Pinsonneault conducting, December 21st, 2013.

Only Women Aloud  - women’s project choir   The School of Hard Knocks is excited to launch the 2015 Melbourne International Singers Festival season of Only Women Aloud, starting Sunday 3rd May.   Only Women Aloud is...

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