Basque Youth Choir – Euskal Herriko Gazte Abesbatza (EHGA)
Conductors: Elisenda Carrasco i Ribot & César Marañón
(Basque Country, Spain)

Winner of
Tolosa Choral Competition 2021
TOLOSA, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN

Euskal Herriko Gazte Abesbatza – Basque Youth Choir emerged in 2016 with the support of the Basque Choir Confederation and comprises a first-rate selection of 40 of the best young voices from the Basque Country. The choir has performed in the best theatres and auditoriums in the Basque Country and at the Tolosa International Choral Contest, including joint performances with diverse groups of young people such as the two Basque youth orchestras (the EGO, comprising young people, and the EIO, comprising students of secondary school age) and the Catalan National Youth Choir.

En Kör
(Stockholm, Sweden)

Winner of
International Guido d’Arezzo Polyphonic Contest 2022
AREZZO, ITALY

En Kör is a vocal ensemble with 12 singers based in Stockholm. The choir started as a project during the autumn of 2016 with the aim to sing complex choral music in a small ensemble and to engage all singers in the entire musical process. We love to challenge ourselves and always search for new experiences. Our vision is to create music at a high level and share that with a wide audience. Through our performance we want to make choral music more accessible so that both people new to choral music and more experienced listeners can understand and appreciate the nuances in it. The entire group participate in the musical process. The final version of a piece is worked out together during rehearsals. In 2019 we participated in the choir competition Adriatic Pearl International Choir Festival and Competition 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia and won two categories.

Chamber Choir Sophia
Conductor Olexii Shamrytskyi
(Kyev, Ukraine)

Winner of
Tolosa Choral Competition 2022
TOLOSA, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN

The Sophia Chamber Choir from Kiev founded in 2008 by young director Ivan Bogdanov. Since 2010, Olexii Shamrytskyi, who back then was still a student of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, has taken over the choir’s direction. In November 2010, they performed cantatas by Sviridov (“Songs of Timelessness” and “Night Clouds”), a series of treatments about Ukrainian folk songs. In September 2011, they recorded their first CD, Liturgy, which includes works by Russian composers Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Arkhangelsky, Chesnokov, Schnittke, etc. Since 2012, the choir takes part regularly in choral festivals and meetings such as the “KIEVMYUZIKtest”, Easter Assembly and many others.