1St European Choir Games

1st European Choir Games

14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

- Austrian Open Competition -

Winner of the Styria Prize Text5Seisen High School Choir, Mikiko Sato, Japan

Result Category 1 - Children's Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Khorovaya StudiyaElen Pioneria Elena Veremeenko Russia21,34 GOLD I II Chorus of Beijing No.Feng 8 Middle School Feng Zhao China20,79 GOLD I II Revaz Lagidzis GogonataMagd Akademiuri Gundi Magdana Matitaishvili Georgia20,55 GOLD I II Morten Boerup ChoirAlice Alice Vestergaard Denmark19,65 SILVER X Shanghai CommitteeWei Gold Apple Choir Wei Li Yang China8,05 BRONZE VIII Result Category 2 - Youth Choirs of Equal Voices

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Seisen High SchoolMikik Choir Mikiko Sato Japan22,90 GOLD III II Result Category 3 - Mixed Youth Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Inner Mongolia YouthGeril Choir Gerile Yulun China23,39 GOLD III I Result Category 4 - Mixed Chamber Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Adelaide ChamberCarl Singers Carl Crossin Australia27,98 GOLD VIII I FONS Miros Miroslava Smékalová Czech Republic19,76 SILVER X jedesmal anders Željk Željka Hrestak Austria14,38 SILVER IV

CW = Category Winner GP = Grand Prize CP = Conductor Prize SP = Special Prize The choir has qualified to perform at the following INTERKULTUR major Events within the next 5 years: Q I = World Choir Games–The Champions Competition; World Choir Championships–The Champions Round; Grand Prix of Choral Music Q II = World Choir Games–The Champions Competition; World Choir Championships–The Champions Round Ruhberg 1 35463 Fernwald (Frankfurt/Main) Germany E-Mail: [email protected] • www.interkultur.com 1st European Choir Games

14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

- Austrian Open Competition -

Result Category 5 - Mixed Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Mixed Choir MarupeKalvi Kalvis Ozolins & Andis Latvia19,50 SILVER X Klucnieks Lagos City Chorale Eme Emeka Nwokedi Nigeria19,43 SILVER IX Coral Polifónico deRui Ponte de Sor Rui Martins Picado Portugal12,18 SILVER II Result Category 10 - Music of the Religions

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Adelaide ChamberCarl Singers Carl Crossin Australia27,61 GOLD VIII I Seisen High SchoolMikik Choir Mikiko Sato Japan22,90 GOLD III II Century Youth-Children'sLee Choir Lee Yang Huei-Gong Chinese Taipei20,79 GOLD I II Lagos City Chorale Eme Emeka Nwokedi Nigeria20,53 GOLD I II Crkveni hor "Sveti SnežJovan Krstitelj" Snežana Žujić Serbia19,64 SILVER X FONS Miros Miroslava Smékalová Czech Republic19,60 SILVER X Stimmen Bahás - Bahá'i-ChorChris Deutschland Christhard Janetzki Germany8,61 BRONZE IX Result Category 11 - Musica Contemporanea (contemporary music)

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Seisen High SchoolMikik Choir Mikiko Sato Japan27,44 GOLD VII I Adelaide ChamberCarl Singers Carl Crossin Australia26,56 GOLD VII I Khorovaya StudiyaElen Pioneria Elena Veremeenko Russia18,73 SILVER IX Lagos City Chorale Eme Emeka Nwokedi Nigeria18,70 SILVER IX Result Category 12 - Jazz & Pop

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Vox Singers Robe Robert Majewski Poland22,45 GOLD II II Morten Boerup ChoirAlice Alice Vestergaard Denmark19,43 SILVER IX Perpetuum mobile Marij Marija Kravtsova Russia12,86 SILVER III jedesmal anders Željk Željka Hrestak Austria11,26 SILVER I Result Category 13 - Gospel & Spiritual

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Vocal Formation "Shtastlivetsa"Rossi Rossi Yordanova & Konstantin Bulgaria8,24 BRONZE VIII Tomov

14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

- Austrian Open Competition -

Result Category 14 - Folklore

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Diploma CW GP CP SP Q Inner Mongolia YouthGeril Choir Gerile Yulun China26,20 GOLD VI I Seisen High SchoolMikik Choir Mikiko Sato Japan23,30 GOLD III I Lagos City Chorale Eme Emeka Nwokedi Nigeria21,80 GOLD II II The Sang Mu ChoirJia of L Fuzhou No.1 High School Jia Long Dai China21,35 GOLD I II Corul Mixt "NaştereaMagd Domnului" Magdalena Lödi Romania18,40 SILVER VIII Marsudirini Children'sFran Choir Franz Renaldy Indonesia18,25 SILVER VIII

Furthermore, the following choirs performed at concerts in the course of the festival: Name of the choir Conductor Country St. Andreas Chor Johann Flecker Austria Imago Tijl Luc Morren Belgium Singender Obst- und Gartenbauverein Gösting Arnold Zimmermann Austria A cappella Murau Christine Kociper Austria Singgemeinschaft Pöllau Hartberg Austria Gesangverein Unterpremstätten-Zettling Lieselotte Sterbenz Austria Margarethener Mehrgesang Anna Trummer Austria e nine o four Austria Singkreis Lannach Christine Hubmann Austria Chor Heimatmelodie Alena Heiser Germany Vocal Stiefingtal Margit Weiss Austria Schoffeichtkoglposcher Austria Volkstanzkreis Hitzendorf Austria Chor der Pfarre Straden Gabriele Eder Austria Singkreis Stainz bei Straden Bernabe Palabay Austria Alegria Chamber Choir M. Inci Tiğli Ayag Turkey Margarethener Männerchor Fred Guter Austria

14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

Champions Competition

Result Category 1 - Children's Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Lautitia GyermekkarJózs József Nemes Hungary 87,13 GOLD II Children's Choir "Melodia"Elen Elena Medentseva Russia 80,13 GOLD I Result Category 2 - Youth Choirs of Equal Voices

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Cantamus Girls' ChoirPam Pamela Cook & Ann Irons Great Britain 87,75 GOLD II Cantus Domini ChoirŞtefa Ştefan Răzvan-Constantin Romania 79,13 SILVER Result Category 3 - Mixed Youth Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Lautitia Ifjúsági VegyeskarJózs József Nemes Hungary 91,75 GOLD II Defrost Youth ChoirTho Thomas Caplin Norway 83,00 GOLD I Result Category 4 - Mixed Chamber Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Singfoniker in F Karl Karl Lohninger Austria 82,38 GOLD I Nilufer Polyphonic ZeynChoir Zeynep Göknur Yıldız Turkey 77,63 SILVER Alikvotní sbor SpektrumJan Jan Staněk Czech Republic 74,88 SILVER Academic Music EnsembleKryst of Silesian University of Technology Krystyna Krzyżanowska- Poland 69,63 SILVER Łoboda Result Category 5 - Mixed Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Chor "Pro Musica" GerliMooskirchen Gerlinde Hörmann Austria 58,75 BRONZE Result Category 6 - Female Chamber Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Youth Female ChoirSash - MKC Sasho Tatarchevski Macedonia 78,00 SILVER Cantus Ante OmniaSnež Snežana Ponoš Croatia 72,13 SILVER Resurrexit Sr. M Sr. Maria-Regina Kaser & Austria 58,13 BRONZE Martina Kratzer

C = Champion The choir has qualified to perform at the following INTERKULTUR major Events within the next 5 years: Q I = World Choir Games–The Champions Competition; World Choir Championships–The Champions Round; Grand Prix of Choral Music Q II = World Choir Games–The Champions Competition; World Choir Championships–The Champions Round

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14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

Champions Competition

Result Category 7 - Female Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Skanderborg Girls AliceChoir Alice Vestergaard Denmark 85,50 GOLD II Result Category 9 - Male Choirs

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q The Orthodox MaleIon Choir Iu "Armonia" Ion Iulian Dumitru Romania 87,13 GOLD II Steirischer JägerchorMargi Margit Weiss Austria 75,13 SILVER Result Category 10 - Musica Sacra

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Cantamus Girls' ChoirPam Pamela Cook & Ann Irons Great Britain 85,75 GOLD II Abbellimento Jarmi Jarmila Novenková Czech Republic 85,25 GOLD II The Orthodox MaleIon Choir Iu "Armonia" Ion Iulian Dumitru Romania 78,75 SILVER Pavlo Chubinskiy CapellaAleks Choir Aleksandr Zyuzkin & Ukraine 77,50 SILVER Aleksandr Zhyhun Academic Music EnsembleKryst of Silesian University of Technology Krystyna Krzyżanowska- Poland 66,00 SILVER Łoboda Chor "Pro Musica" GerliMooskirchen Gerlinde Hörmann Austria 55,38 BRONZE Result Category 11 - Musica Contemporanea (contemporary music)

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Abbellimento Jarmi Jarmila Novenková Czech Republic 83,00 GOLD I Cantus Ante OmniaSnež Snežana Ponoš Croatia 79,25 SILVER Alikvotní sbor SpektrumJan Jan Staněk Czech Republic 65,00 SILVER

Ruhberg 1 35463 Fernwald (Frankfurt/Main) Germany E-Mail: [email protected] • www.interkultur.com 1st European Choir Games

14th - 21st July 2013 Graz, Austria

Champions Competition

Result Category 12 - Jazz & Pop

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Santos ProductionsChris Academy Christian Santos Gibraltar 87,38 GOLD II Defrost Youth ChoirTho Thomas Caplin Norway 84,13 GOLD I Positive Vibrations Robe Robert Majewski Poland 81,00 GOLD I Skanderborg Girls AliceChoir Alice Vestergaard Denmark 77,88 SILVER Academic Music EnsembleKryst of Silesian University of Technology Krystyna Krzyżanowska- Poland 71,13 SILVER Łoboda Graz Gospel Chor Željk Željka Hrestak Austria 63,00 SILVER Result Category 13 - Gospel & Spiritual

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Santos ProductionsChris Academy Christian Santos Gibraltar 86,13 GOLD II Cantus Firmus Robe Roberto Beccaria Italy 84,63 GOLD I Singfoniker in F Karl Karl Lohninger Austria 81,38 GOLD I Academic Music EnsembleKryst of Silesian University of Technology Krystyna Krzyżanowska- Poland 74,75 SILVER Łoboda Graz Gospel Chor Željk Željka Hrestak Austria 71,38 SILVER Result Category 14 - Folklore

Name of the group Conductor Country Points Medal C Q Philomela Marju Marjukka Riihimäki Finland 94,00 GOLD II The Orthodox MaleIon Choir Iu "Armonia" Ion Iulian Dumitru Romania 92,50 GOLD II Cantamus Girls' ChoirPam Pamela Cook & Ann Irons Great Britain 87,50 GOLD II Swedbank Koris Jurģi Jurģis Cābulis Latvia 85,00 GOLD I Zvonky Praha Jarmi Jarmila Novenková Czech Republic 83,00 GOLD I Nilufer Polyphonic ZeynChoir Zeynep Göknur Yıldız Turkey 78,50 SILVER Children's Choir "Melodia"Elen Elena Medentseva Russia 77,50 SILVER

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