Bring your heart and your voice August 1 to 9, 2019 Editorial The 23rd Choralies, from the 1st to the 9th of variety of international ateliers. Artists from programme, pick up your suitcases and start August in Vaison-la-Romaine, will once again the five continents will act as ambassadors of to travel, to dream and to hope. Make sure be a grand celebration of choral singing, a vocal excellence and grace us with delightful you register early to this beautiful musical gathering of thousands of passionate singers concerts, bringing us together in common adventure led by the À Cœur Joie association. and renowned choral conductors from around emotion. Remember : it only happens every three years… the world. Prestigious ensembles will perform Jacques BARBIER, President of À Cœur Joie France, during the festival, displaying exciting new The town of Vaison-la-Romaine remains a Jean-Claude WILKENS, Artistic director of the styles and repertoires. close partner and welcomes us in its various Choralies, The Choralies are an occasion for a world that venues. Place Montfort will develop into a Olivier BLANCHOZ, Technical director and volunteer is alive and singing to meet up. dynamic meeting point for all kinds of musics teams coordinator. and audiences. The council’s teams are More than ever, the festival will celebrate youth. working closely with our staff of volunteers Publishing Published by À Cœur Joie The opening concert will set the tone along in order to prepare, yet again, a unique and Choral organisation with daily animations and innovative ateliers. enchanting environment ready to accomodate 24 Avenue Joannès Masset - CS 99261 69264 LYON cedex 09 FRANCE In line with this ambition, the 2019 Choralies 5000 singers for ten days in what is France’s Graphic concept: Atelier Chose will also look out towards Europe, and the largest choral event. Realisation: Clotilde Jenoudet Photo credit: À Cœur Joie, rich facets of the world we share, through a As you browse through the 23rd Choralies’ Diane-Laure Galinotti, Jean Morlais, Delphine Barbier Baritaux, Michel Curé, Thierry Wagner, Guy Martin, Shutterstock The Choralies Ateliers 20 > Long Ateliers p. 4 9 About the festival p. 19 21 8 days : August 1 to 9 Open Singing, Roman Theatre, Place Montfort... 3 > 8-16 years old Ateliers p. 10 Information p. 22 23 8 days : August 1 to 9 Travel, meals, camping, agenda... Special Ateliers p. 11 Choir singers, choirs, children, occasional singers or conductors, all will find the atelier that suits their tastes, musical level and duration of their stay. 8 days : August 1 to 9 To meet your expectations, we offer all kinds of music! A cappella or orchestra? Equal or mixed voices? A wide range of style and periods is available! Registration for individuals will open in September 2018 on the website. Technical Ateliers p. 13 14 We have special conditions for groups under 25 years old. 4 days : August 1 to 5 Please contact us at [email protected] www.choralies.fr Short Ateliers p. 14 15 4 days : August 1 to 5 Technical Ateliers p. 16 17 4 days : August 6 to 9 Short Ateliers p. 17 18 4 days : August 6 to 9 444 Long Ateliers August 1 to 9, 2019 August 1st 9th 2019 LONG ATELIERS ATELIER L01 ATELIER L02 ATELIER L03 ATELIER L04 Messa di Gloria Ein Deutsches Requiem JubilateJubilate Deo Deo - DAN FORREST Missa Brevis in D Minor GIACOMO PUCCINI JOHANNES BRAHMS SATBDAN - medium FORREST - 300 singers - English WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART AlessandroCONDUCTOR JanCONDUCTOR CONDUCTORBrady CONDUCTORLeslie CADARIOBrady SCHUMACHERBrady BradyALLRED BradyPEETERS ALLRED ALLRED ALLRED ALLRED Italy Germany USA France Are you ready to delve into the beauty of Italian Brahms’ German Requiem is one of the greatest Dan Forrest’s Jubilate Deo brings to life the The Missa Brevis in D Minor for four mixed music with Puccini? The composer’s splendid monument of choral music on a par with global aspect of the traditional Psalm 100 voices was written by a 13 year-old in Salzburg Messa di Gloria will startle you with its constant Bach’s Mass in B or Haydn’s Creation. After this text by setting it in seven different languages in 1769. This piece for string orchestra and 5 shift between sacred music and operatic style. romantic piece’s huge success, the composer – Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Zulu, four soloists was the only one of Mozart’s This atelier promises to be an experience you himself wrote the arrangement for choir and Spanish, and English – and drawing from a masses written in minor key. Its tormented won’t forget… piano four hands revealing the richness of the wide spectrum of musical cultures. The final character foreshadows the Requiem and vocal parts. movement combines them in a stunning speaks volumes about the genius of its young SATB 140 singers celebration of joy, as the earth sings as one: composer. omnis terra, jubilate ! medium English/Italian SATB 140 singers SATB 100 singers difficult English/German SATB 300 singers medium French/English Alessandro Cadario is Principal Guest Conductor medium English at the Milanese orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Jan Schumacher is musical director at the Leslie Peeters is a conductor, choral conducting one of Italy’s oldest symphonic orchestras. He has university of Frankfurt (Germany) and conducts Brady Allred is artistic director and conductor teacher, singer and pianist. She graduated from conducted prestigious orchestras and choirs such Limburg’s Camerata Musica. He sang in the city’s of the Salt Lake Choral Artists, an organization of the superior conservatoire (CNSMD) of Lyon where as the Monte Carlo and the Fenice Philharmonic cathedral choir before joining the State Youth Choir seven choral ensembles. He is regularly invited as she studied choral conducting with Bernard Tétu Orchestras, and those of the theaters of Genoa, of Rheinland-Pfalz. As a conductor he has worked on conductor or jury member and leads masterclasses and Nicole Corti after having studied with Paul Bologna, Petruzzelli (Bari), Teatro Lirico (Cagliari), the great romantic oratorios and masses (Beethoven, in Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle Spicer and Jeffrey Skidmore at the Birmingham and Verdi (Trieste). He has collaborated with soloists Mendelssohn, Verdi, Dvorak, Schubert, Bruckner, East. He is a winner of the European Grand Prix, Conservatoire (United Kingdom). She has sung in such as Gautier Capuçon, Mario Brunello, Vittorio Elgar), from Gregorian chant to contemporary music two First Prizes and the Conductors Prize at professional ensembles (Chœur Britten, Calliope…), Grigolo, Francesco Meli and Giovanni Sollima. via opera or improvised and electronic music. He is the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir and conducts children and youth choirs as well as regularly invited to great choral events on the five Competition. Prior to his full-time appointment as the vocal ensemble A Piacere in Chambéry, France. continents. artistic director of SLCA, Brady Allred taught at Leslie pushes boundaries between music and the University of Utah, conducted Pittsburg’s Bach theater with staged performances of renaissance, Choir amongst others and sang with the Robert baroque, contemporary, and jazz music. She Shaw Festival Singers. currently trains future choral conductors and music teachers in Lyon and Villeurbanne. August 1st 9th 2019 LONG ATELIERS ATELIER L05 ATELIER L06 ATELIER L07 ATELIER L08 Saint Francis of Assisi Mass Bolivian Cathedral of Sucre 21st century French music Misatango ! DAMIJAN MOČNIK baroque music DamijanCONDUCTOR MarianaCONDUCTOR SabineCONDUCTOR CONDUCTORVirginia MOČNIKBrady DELGADILLOBrady ARGAUTBrady BradyBONO ALLRED ALLRED ALLRED ALLRED Slovenia France - Bolivia France Argentina This mass for choir, string orchestra and The Bolivian Cathedral of Sucre’s baroque This typically French repertoire boasts The Misa a Buenos Aires was composed in percussions is like Saint Francis of Assisi: music collection will take us to a time when various characteristics: colours, transparency, 1996. It combines elements of mass and 66 simple and humble. Let the composer sacred celebrations were a grand expression modality, sensitivity, impressionism. The Argentinian tango in its writing as well as introduce you to this new mass, a special of exuberance, syncretism and religious pieces for piano or a capella we will work on through the mixture of voice and dance work with contrasting movements, just like a fervor. Come and discover this religious music are excerpts from the Ten commandments orchestra. A mass loved by modern audiences snaphat of our century… filled with boisterous rhythms and vibrant by Anthony Girard, the Bestiaire de noël will be performed at the Choralies in the harmonies. by Thierry Machuel, the Ariettes oubliées presence of its composer. SSA 140 singers by Julien Joubert, and Le vent by Isabelle Aboulker. Come and fall in love with modern easy English SATB 80 singers SATB 120 singers day French music! medium Spanish medium English/Spanish Damijan Mocnik studied composition at Ljubljana's Academy of Music in 1991. He developed Mariana Delgadillo Espinoza is passionate SATB 80 singers Argentinian music teacher and choral conductor his craft studying abroad, which included working about early music and contemporary music. Her difficult French Virgina Bono trained with renowned conductors with Eric Ericson. Since 1993, Mocnik has been a work focuses on contemporary creation, revival during masterclasses and workshops. She won choral conductor and music director at Ljubljana's of early repertoire and teaching. She studied with As a professional choral conductor, Sabine the Conductor of Honor Merit award in 2000 at Diocesan Classical Gymnasium, and since 2000 Valérie Fayet, Nicole Corti and Hans Christophe Argaut, has led many choirs in French the Argentinian Association for Choral Music artistic director of all musical activities at the Rademann at the superior conservatoire (CNSMD) conservatoires for over 25 years. She trains (AAMCANT) in La Plata, and the 3rd prize at the St. Stanislaus Institution. He conducts several of Lyon.