The winner of the Arezzo 2018 is the University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors, conductor Edgardo L. Manguiat, from Quezon City, Philippines. Congratulations! You can find all the results here. Enter the Arezzo competition website >>
The Beijing Philharmonic Choir from China is the winner of the 65th Edition of the International choral competition in Arezzo and will compete for the EGP 2018 in Maribor. This has been a memorable edition of the competition and many ex aequo prizes have confirmed the high quality of the choirs. The jury has appreciated in particular the extraordinary level of the performances in the category with monographic program. The ensemble Vocapella (Austria) and the Genova Vocal Ensemble (Italy) have shared the first prize. The hardest trial was probably the compulsory program (category 1): Uranienborg Vokalensemble (Norway) has won [...]
Among 6 finalists of the 65th International Guido d'Arezzo Polyphonic Contest 2017 the 1st prize goes to the Beijing Philharmonic Choir from China. The choir is also the 4th finalist of EGP – European Grand Prix for Choral Singing next year in Maribor (Slovenia) on the 21. april 2018. Congratulations to the winner and all the participating choirs! Video of the Arezzo Grand Prix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws4Y1H1eOTs More about the Arezzo competition: http://www.polifonico.org/ Programme booklet in pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7gcr4j3dyqcz09/Libretto%20definitivo.pdf?dl=0 Arezzo news: http://www.polifonico.org/news
15 choirs, 7 categories (included gregorian chant), study tours, meetings with the artists, a great homage to Claudio Monteverdi in the 450th of his birth: these are the rich contents of the 65. edition of the International choral competition in Arezzo under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Donati. The jury (Ragnar Rasmussen, Gary Graden, Javier Busto, Luigi Marzola, Alexander Schweitzer, Carlo Pedini and Urša Lah) has already chosen the six best choirs that will compete this afternoon at 4 pm for the Grand Prix. They are the Vocapella from Innsbruck (Austria), the Beijing Philharmonic choir (China), the Mornington Singers (Ireland), Genova [...]
