Chorus Inside Croatia
Chorus Inside festival is an international festival of choirs that connects the passion for music and singing with the universal values of friendship and solidarity. The Chorus Inside Croatia festival in Rovinj tries to encourage the arrival of specific musical groups, and the goal is to increase the quality of amateur singing, given that it is a competitive model of the festival, which includes various workshops for singers and conductors.
As many as 17 choirs from Poland, Italy, Romania, Greece and Croatia will participate in this year's Chorus Inside Croatia festival:
1. MESSOLONGHI CULTURAL CENTER CHOIR, MESSOLONGHI, GREECE
2. PUERI ET PUELLAE CANTORES PLOCENSES, PŁOCK, POLAND
3. PRO ARTE, INOWROCŁAW, POLAND
4. SŁOWIKI, SZCZECIN, POLAND
5. COLLEGIUM BACCALARUM, OLSZTYN, POLAND
6. ACADEMIC CHOIR OF MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, WARSAW, POLAND
7. PUERI ET PUELLAE CANTORES PLOCENSES, PŁOCK, POLAND
8. PRO ARTE, INOWROCŁAW, POLAND
9. CHAMBER CHOIR OF THE ACADEMY OF ART, SZCZECIN, POLAND
10. CANZONA, MUROWANA GOŚLINA, POLAND
11. GIACOMO PUCCINI, CHIETI, ITALY
12. SAN LEOPOLDO, CONCORDIA SAGITTARIA, ITALY
13. ABRUZZO IN CANTO, S. SALVO, ITALY
14. UNISON, BRASOV, ROMANIA
15. VOCAL GROUP "VETTA" TOP, BUZET, CROATIA
16. VOCAL GROUP "UMOLE", PIĆAN, CROATIA
17. MIXED VOCAL GROUP "NEŠPULA", PULA, CROATIA
More than 400 singers will participate in the festival program, who will present themselves in the revue and competition program.
The official concert of the participants will be in the Church of St. Euphemia on Saturday, August 26, starting at 8:00 p.m. and the choir competition will be held at the Lone Hotel on Sunday, August 27, starting at 10:30 a.m. At the festive concert in the Church of St. Euphemia, on August 26 at 8 p.m., the choirs will present a selection from their sacred part of the program, and the next day they will compete in six different categories – polyphonic classical choral music, traditional folk music, opera music, gospel, jazz and entertainment music. The expert jury will be led by a distinguished music pedagogue and conductor from Italy, maestro Pasquale Veleno, and the choirs will be judged by Professor Dariusz Dyczewski, a music pedagogue and conductor from Poland, while Croatia will be represented by a music pedagogue and conductor from Pula, Professor Denis Modrušan. Maestro Pasquale Veleno will hold a workshop for all participants at the Lone Hotel during the break between the competition and the announcement of awards, when all the singers will prepare the festival's set compositions together.
Entry to all events is free.
