EUROPA CANTAT junior 5

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EUROPA CANTAT junior 5
8.1.1. EUROPA CANTAT junior 512 20 July 2008,
Nevers, France
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EUROPA CANTAT junior 5

• NEVERS,
• City of International Choral Singing
• Festival EUROPA CANTAT 20002,500 singers, 23
  countries
• International Singing Weeks from 2001 to
  20071,500 singers, 26 countries
• Festival EUROPA CANTAT junior800 singers, 15 to
  25 countries150 accompanying persons

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EUROPA CANTAT junior 5

• Schedule of the festival
• Saturday, July 12th, arrival day, opening concert
• In the mornings, rehearsals for the 6 workshops
• In the afternoons, non-musical activities
• At the end of the afternoons, Open Singing
• In the evenings, concerts
• Wednesday, July 16th, concerts in Burgundy

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EUROPA CANTAT junior 5

• Atelier 1
• Around Francis Poulencwith Lionel Sow
  (France)Litanies à la Vierge Noire by Poulenc
  with organ
• Atelier 1
• Show Choir Broadwaywith Scott Alan Prouty
  (France/USA)Opening Night, Do-Ré-Mi (The sound
  of Music),Sunny side of the street

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• Atelier 3
• From Kazakhstan to Canada, with Zimfira Poloz
  (Kazakhstan/Canada) So vunom ia khozhu
  Trad. Russian, Tjak! Stephen Hatfield, other
  Canadian works, Danses Polovstiennes, Borodine
• Atelier 4
• Music from the Americas with Cristian Grases
  (Venezuela/USA)The Water of Tyne, La Paloma, Go
  Down Music, Opereta Ecologica by Alberto Grau

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• Atelier 5
• Body and Soulwith Sanna Valvanne
  (Finland/USA)Traditional music from different
  parts of the worldcombined with dancing
• Atelier 6
• Music from the Northern Sea shores with
  Marleen Annemans (Belgium) Het meisje en de zee
  (Bikkembergs), Numbers and figures (Claesen), Un
  poeme de plain-chant (Mertens)

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EUROPA CANTAT junior 5

• Open Singing with Michael Gohl
• (Switzerland)
• Opening Concert
• Festivities of July 14th
• At the end of each afternoon- with a
  choir-in-residence- with a songbook published
  for the event

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• Study Tour with Denis Menier
• (Belgium)
• Analysing innovative conducting methods
• Meeting the Atelier conductors
• Listening to a great diversity of choirs
• Discovering new repertoire
• More information and details on
• www.europa-cantat-nevers.com