World Symposium on Choral Music 2020
Performing Arts - Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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World Symposium on Choral Music 2020 Details
Once every three years the world's leading choirs, conductors, composers and administrators come together for the most anticipated event on the international choral calendar – a premier festival of concerts, seminars workshops and masterclasses known as the World Symposium on Choral Music.For just the third in its history, the Symposium will be held in the Southern Hemisphere, in one of the most-loved tourism destinations in the world – New Zealand. The World Symposium on Choral Music 2020 (WSCM2020) will run for eight days in Auckland from 11 to 18 July 2020.Twenty-four of the world's finest choirs have been selected from a record number of applications to perform at WSCM2020. Joining them will be 40 top international presenters, chosen again from an unprecedented number of applications, to give a wide range of seminars, workshops, masterclasses and demonstrations.The Symposium's theme ‘People and the Land \ He Tangata, He Whenua' has inspired a range of exciting presentations on such as topics as indigenous music and ‘ownership', the environment, social empowerment and diversity, alongside the cornerstone subjects of conducting and vocal techniques, articulation, rhythm, intonation, genre exploration, repertoire, movement and programming.Also on offer at WSCM2020 will be the ‘Surround Sounds' fringe festival, showcasing even more choirs from around the world, as well as the choral music of Aotearoa NZ.
