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You can watch all the reportage from every day of the festival on multimedia -> videogallery! And in order to be always ready TO sing, take a peek at the "ready TO sing" page, where you can find the opening video for the concerts in Piazza San Carlo and a "best of the festival"...
And all of you, be always ready TO sing!
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In the multimedia -> photogallery area, you can have a look at some pictures of the festival!
If you miss the festival, now you can remind and live again the good times you lived from 27th July and 4th August! :)
Send us your best pictures and the more beautiful will be posted on our website!
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European Choir Video Award
The announcement of the winner of the European Choir Video Award from European Choral Association - Europa Cantat’s Youth Committee will take place on the main stage in Piazza San Carlo after Open Singing tonight at 20.45.
European Award for Choral Composers
Tonight in Lingotto, Auditorium “G. Agnelli” h 21.30 will take place the official award ceremony.
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New thematic fringe appointment, today we'll discover Torino's courtyards! Courtyards to discover are:
1-Chiesa di San Filippo (via Maria Vittoria 5)
2-Palazzo Dal Pozzo della Cisterna (via Maria Vittoria 12)
Special Guest alle ore 18.30 Veljo Tormis’ Portrait, Estonian National Male Choir (EE)
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Do you have a ticket for a concert but you can't attend it? Or dou you want a ticket for a concert already sold out?
In Music Expo (Torino Incontra from 8.30 to 18) there is the Exchange Point where you can exchange tickets with others!
If you can’t attend any of your already booked concert, please offer to someone else the opportunity of attending the event!!!
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Now you can download festival Europa Cantat App on AppStore!!!!
The app is free of charge and can be downloaded easily: enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The features are:
-festival news with in-depth article
-detailed programme of musical events
-instant chat with other festival participants
-events interactive map
-information on festival
-sharing with facebook, twitter and youtube
-automatic update
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This year the festival waits for you at the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino (the international book fair of the city), with preview events and information about the festival.
If you are around Torino, don’t miss this appointment: come to visit us at our booth “Festival Europa Cantat XVIII Torino 2012” and “Feniarco”! We are there from 10th to 14th May in Dimensione Musica space.
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Thanks to those who signed up to the festival before November 30th! We have reached over 3,000 participants, but there is still room for those who want to join in!
Persons who applied will receive an email in the coming weeks from the Festival office, which will confirm they correctly applied.
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Adhesions for YEMP are officially open! Yemp is the programme for young managers to learn how to organize events which offers a rich and stimulating formative path with seminars and practical experience. The registration deadline is 31st January 2012. Limited availability: register now!
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Important commissions for the ateliers of the festival! Jonathan Rathbone (UK), Manfred Länger (AT), Jakko Mäntyjärvi (FI) are the composers. And besides these important “première” there will be 10 more commissions for the participant choirs which will be announced here on our website.
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Here’s the name of the conductor of the 50th atelier of the festival, D3- Bach: Motets. He is the Belgian-Flemish conductor Erik Van Nevel, founder of Currende Consort and choral conduction, chamber music and praxis of ancient music teacher at the Lemmens Institute di Leuven.
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30th November 2011 for ateliers A, B, C, D (ateliers for choirs and singers, 4 to 8 days long)
31st December 2011 for uploading the audition material on the application form (atelier C) or sending it to the festival Music office
25th January 2012 for atelier E
31st January 2012 for YEMP
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Atelier with songs, dancing, musical games specifically thought for children: this is what the musical kindergarten offers. For one day or the entire week, in the morning and also in the afternoon or evening, if needed. Find out now the interesting proposal that the festival can offer you with favorable terms.
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The festival applications are online!
Finally you can register and apply for the festival! The application form will allow you to register as a group or as individual without accompaying people. Those applying before 30th November 2011 will be guaranteed to attend one of the ateliers of your choice at the festival Europa Cantat in Torino!
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The application form of the Festival Europa Cantat XVIII Torino 2012 will be available on the website in a few days! You can register as a choir, as a group or as individual without accompaying people. Choose your favourite three ateliers or the special programmes you would like to attend before 30th November 2011. You will be guaranteed that you will be accepted in one of the ateliers of your choice at the festival Europa Cantat in Torino!
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"Known as one of the main industrial centres in Italy, the Piemonte Region and the City of Torino are no less active on the cultural front. As well as industry and production, our area has developed a cultural side becoming a venue for major events and prestigious institutions."
(Michele Coppola e Maurizio Braccialarghe)
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The Festival Europa Cantat is for everybody, especially curious people. Curious singers and curious people who want to sing, curious conductors and curious people who want to meet who will conduct us, curious composers and those curious to know new compositions, curious listeners and curious singers who want to be listened to.
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"We ask that everybody comes to Torino from 27th July to 5th August 2012 for the XVIII edition of the Festival Europa Cantat: the whole city and the region await singers from all over the world for a festival that is worthy of its long tradition."
(Sante Fornasier, festival president)
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