Next July 2011 is its sixth edition (from 16th to 24th July) and we will have the opportunity to work with four choir conductors of renowned quality and prestige, coordinated by Josep Prats, the musical director of the Singing Week. There will be four morning workshops.
The renowned Belgian pianist and conductor Johan Duijck, professor of conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Esmuc), who has already taken part in previous editions of the Singing Week, proposes a workshop dedicated to his own works. From Latin America we will count on the participation of two conductors of renowned prestige: Hugo de la Vega from Córdoba (Argentina), probably the most popular conductor and music arranger in Argentina and Francisco Simaldoni from Montevideo (Uruguay). They will both share a workshop on South American folklore, so rich in rhythms and genres. Basilio Astúlez, a conductor from the Basque country, will complete this series of workshops. He is well known throughout the country and the world for his choreographic and choral works and will lead a workshop for female voices during the Singing Week 2011.
The high point of this 6th edition of he Singing Week will be, as it is the tradition, the common atelier, which will take place, unlike previous editions, in the morning after the rehearsal of the workshops. This year, the well-known maestro Edmon Colomer will conduct the Symphony No. 2, opus 52, “Lobgesang” by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The performance of this symphonic cantata for orchestra, soloists and mixed choir in the Auditorium Camp de Mart in Tarragona, at the foot of the Roman walls, will crown the Singing Week Tarragona 2011. The concert will be complemented with Ein Sommernachtstraum, op.21 (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, for orchestra, soloists and choir of children’s voices) by the same composer.
Up to the present day we have the participation to the Singing Week Tarragona 2011 of the following choirs: Cor Ciutat de Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain), Coro de la Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay), Gent Madrigalkoor (Ghent, Belgium) , Grupo Magüey (Córdoba, Argentina), Vocalia Taldea (a girl’s choir from the Basque Country). These, together with other visiting choirs will fill all the evenings during the week with choral concerts both in the old city of Tarragona and the main cities of the province.
All this will take place in the Roman Tarraco, a city open to the country and the sea, a city that from ancient times opens to its visitors with all the warmth that it receives from the light characteristic of the Mediterranean. A city that has received the international acknowledgement of the UNESCO that declared its archaeological monuments Human Heritage.
Singers, music, workshops, men and women, the stones of the city, the color of the sea and countryside, concerts, traditions, selfless effort of organizers who are already working so that the next Singing Week will be once again a highly enriching and unforgettable experience for all participant choirs and singers from all around the world.
Welcome to our Singing Week 2011