EuroChoir 2018
Helsinki (Finland) and Tallinn (Estonia) | 19 July -1 August 2018
The EuroChoir 2018 took place in Finland and Estonia, and it is part of the EU-funded “Sing Outside the Box” project. The singers rehearsed and performed in Helsinki (Finland) before joining the EUROPA CANTAT XX festival in Tallinn (Estonia) for the final concerts.
Conductors:
participants
countries
Repertoire
with Maria
Bob CHILCOTT: A little jazz mass
Peter CORNELIUS: Requiem – Seele, vergiss sie nicht
Carl NIELSEN (arr. John Höybye): Saenk kun dit hoved du blomster
Aulis SALLINEN: The beaufort scale
Rudi TAS: Nulla vita sine musica
Spiritual: Plenty good room
Other pieces to repeat from EuroChoir 2017:
– Rathbone: Joshua fought the battle of Jericho
– Chilcott: Weather report (challenging, takes a lot of time)
Perhaps a piece for SA and for TB
with Mikko
Lasse MÅRTENSON: Stormskärs Maja
Edvard GRIEG: Våren
Jaakko MÄNTYJÄRVI: Canticum calamitatis maritimae
Sven-David SANDSTRÖM: To see the World
Trad. – arr. Jonathan RATHBONE: Vem kan segla förutan vind
Moses HOGAN: I’m gonna sing till the Spirit moves in my heart
Heinrich SCHÜTZ: Vasto mar
“Inspiring for my work as a choir-conductor were the formats and the concepts oft the concerts: The sequential arrangement of the pieces, the transitions between the pieces with movements or improvisations and the “Nielsen-experience“, how Maria called it.”
“After a warm welcome by Sulasol, and a fruitful rehearsal; when Mikko (Sidoroff) told us that the Finnish audience will have tears in their eyes after performance of Stormskärs Maja, any concerns I had were gone and I thought to myself, I couldn’t be in any other place than here.”
