This is the seventeenth International forum conceived by ERKKI POJHOLA, where childrens and youth choirs, together with composers, gather and co-operate for a few days creating a multicultural musical community aiming at a final joint performance which is the Gala Concert. There have been sixteen festivals so far in different countries, that have featured choirs from all over the world. For the first time, in Torino, an Italian choir will host and take part in the event. Artistic Director of SongBridge XVII is Sanna Valvanne.
SONGBRIDGE XVII
SONGBRIDGE XVII
June 30th 2011, 9 p.m. - Teatro Carignano, TORINO
Piccoli Cantori di Torino are proud to present SONGBRIDGE XVII
Piccoli Cantori di Torino (Italy) Conductor: Carlo Pavese Efroni (Israel) Conductor: Maya Shavit Cor infantil Sant Cugat (Catalonia, Spain) Conductors: Elisenda Carrasco and Oriol Castanyer
Elena Camoletto (Italy)
Eran Dinur (Israel)
Jordi Domènech (Catalonia, Spain)
Eran Dinur (Israel)
Jordi Domènech (Catalonia, Spain)
The Songbridge concept
(Programme Book of Festival500, Sharing the Voices, St. Johns Newfoundland June 29 - July 6, 2003)
SongBridge is one of the most exciting new concepts to come to life in the world of international choral music. Founded by choral music
icon Professor Erkki Pohjola of Finland as a logical culmination of his thirty-one year tenure as founder and conductor of the Tapiola
Choir, the SongBridge concept brings together leading youth choirs and choral composers from around the world to further global peace and
understanding in a non-competitive atmosphere. Described by Professor Pohjola as a pebble cast in a pond, the ripples spreading slowly but
surely, SongBridge combines the commissioned choral compositions of prominent international composers with the world choral artistry of
stellar choirs from their countries. Each year the SongBridge choirs are chosen by international jury, and gather at a world choral
symposium for 4-5 days. In that special setting young singers from different countries live, work and play together in community, learning
about each others cultural and music, developing friendship and mutual respect, and after several days of intense rehersal bring to joint
performance their newly commissioned works and folk music from each culture represented in the SongBridge.
The XVII festival
Being given the opportunity of organizing the SongBridge festival represents for our association a
recognition of the International commitment that the Piccoli Cantori di Torino have widely shown in
the past years, taking part in European festivals as their city choral music ambassadors, and
organizing in Torino two International events of the childrens and youth choirs exhibition "Voci in
movimento", whose third festival will host SongBridge. The “SongBridge village” will be
set in Pracatinat from Sunday June 26th to Thursday June 30th when
the choristers will come back to Torino to perform the Gala Concert at the Teatro Carignano. On the
following days the choirs will perform other concerts both in Torino and Piedmont.
A very important role is played by the National Federation Feniarco, which is finalizing
the XVIII Festival Europa Cantat scheduled in
Torino in 2012. SongBridge will interact with the Feniarco
festival “Cantare è giovane”
which represents the “minus one” to Europa Cantat XVIII. The choirs taking part in
"Cantare è giovane" will perform in the Gala Concert and the SongBridge
conductors and choirs will participate in the final concert of the Italian Festival. A historical
landmark is also the link with the Celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of
Italy and in this context "Cantare è giovane" and SongBridge fit in with the motto “variety
and unity ”, which expresses the diversity of the cultures represented and the harmony that
unifies them in singing.
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Teatro Carignano
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