A Biennial Festival
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2008 Diary
Wednesday 8th October
8pm: Wessex Male Choir and Harmony Men in concert at St Thomas’s Church
Thursday 9th October
Choirs arrive during the day.
Private opening ceremony at St James Centre at 8pm
Friday 10th October
During the morning Choirs will make private visits to schools and give a 30 minute concert with music of their own choice.
8pm : Parish Concerts
Concerts will be held at the following venues and with the Choirs detailed below:
- Georgetown Methodist Church : Reading Phoenix Choir (UK) – Male Voice Section
Cantiamo (Holland) - Ladies
Reading Phoenix Choir (UK) – Mixed Voice
- St Aubin-On-The-Hill : Keable Young Generation (Ireland) – Youth Mixed
Renaissance Chorus (UK) - Ladies
Laksevaag Blandet Kor (Norway) - Mixed Voice
3) St Martin’s Parish Church : Cantabile Youth Choir (UK) – Mixed Voice
The Musical Originals Singers (Jersey) - Girls
The Kill Singers (Ireland)- Mixed Voice
4) St Ouen’s Parish Church : Just A Cappella (UK) – Mixed Voice
Wessex Male Choir (UK) – Male Voice
MMPZ I. Gimnazije v Celju (Slovenia) – Mixed
Voice
Ticket Information : Friday
Parish Concerts – tickets are £5 each and available only at the door.
Saturday 11th October
10.00 to 10.15am : Youth Choir Voice Class at Main Hall, Victoria College
Participating Choirs : The Musical Originals Singers (Jersey)
10.15 to 10.45am : Male Voice Class at Main Hall, Victoria
College
Participating Choirs: Reading Phoenix (UK)
Wessex Male Choir (UK)
10.45 to 11.30am : Ladies Voice Class at Main Hall, Victoria
College
Participating Choirs: Renaissance Chorus (UK)
Cantiamo (Holland)
Reading Phoenix (UK)
11.30 to 11.45am : Chamber Choir Voice Class at Main Hall,
Victoria College
Participating Choirs: Cantabile Senior Girls (UK)
12 Noon (approx.) : Adjudication of the Youth Choir, Male Voice, Ladies Voice Voice and Chamber Choir Voice Classes.
12.30 to 2pm : Lunch
2 to 3.30pm : Mixed Choir Voice Class at Main Hall, Victoria
College
Participating Choirs : Cantabile Youth Choir (UK)
The Kill Singers (Ireland)
MMPZ I. Gimnazije v Celju (Slovenia)
Just A Cappella
Laksevaag Blandet Kor (Norway)
Reading Phoenix (UK)
4pm (approx.) : Adjudication of the Mixed Choir Voice Class. This will conclude the afternoon session.
7pm : Choir of Choirs Competition at Gloucester Hall, Fort Regent
Hosted by Gareth Malone
Participating Choirs : the winner and runner-up from each Class.
9pm : Interval
9.20pm (approx.) Adjudicators return to the Hall, announcement of winners and award of prizes and certificates of participation.
9.30pm (approx.) Choirs and guests move to Queen’s Hall, Fort Regent for buffet supper and the closing party.
Ticket Information : Saturday
Entry to the Voice Classes at Victoria College is free to members of the public
Choir of Choirs Competition and Festival Party
Tickets available from 9th September from Fort Regent booking office as follows:
Choir of Choirs Competition only : £10 Adults
£ 8 Child
Choir of Choirs + Party : : £20 Adult or Child
Sunday 15th October
Choirs depart Jersey.
We are delighted to advise that our panel of adjudicators this year will comprise Bob Chilcott, Brendan O’Connor and Robert Sund.
Jeremy Jackman is from England and began his choral life as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral before attending the Royal College of Music and Hull University. He then began his career as a freelance countertenor and choral director, singing throughout Eastern and Western Europe as a soloist and with ensembles such as the BBC Singer, the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen. He also sang operatic roles. In 1980 he was invited to join The King’s Singers and enjoyed 10 years performing with them around the world and making numerous broadcasts and recordings. In 1990 he resumed choral conducting and directed choirs, courses and workshops worldwide. Jeremy is currently Musical Director of the English Baroque Choir and also conducts the Cecilian Singers in Leicester, the Jay Singers in Norfolk and the Haringet Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra.
Brendan O’Connor is from Ireland. He combines life as a marine scientist and MD of an environmental consultancy company specialising in monitoring and managing resources in marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments with being the conductor of Cois Cladaigh, a mixed voice choir. The choir has toured extensively in Europe and has enjoyed considerable success at the Cork International Choral Festival. Brendan himself has been an adjudicator for the schools competition at the Cork Festival.
Robert Sund is from Sweden and is well known both in Sweden and internationally. His many talents include singing, arranging, composing and conducting, as well as teaching conducting and ensemble leadership. He has travelled extensively to lead courses for both choral singers and conductors and had been a guest conductor for choirs world-wide. Robert has been the director of the male-voice choir Orphei Drängar in his homeland since 1991. His association with the choir started some 26 years earlier as a second bass. Robert is an experienced adjudicator having been a jury member at numerous choral festivals.
