International choral talent meets thanks to the International Choral Fest in Costa Rica
From June 19 to 24 Costa Rica will live a festival where the best of the world and national choral talent will converge. Today we tell you about the international talent that visits us this year!
From June 19 to 24 comes the International Choral Fest, an international choral music festival organized from Costa Rica that promotes the transforming power of music for peace.
The aim of the festival is to enrich the national and international choral sector and to build a learning platform that allows an exchange between great international teachers and national choral talent. In addition, the festival aims to transmit a message of culture of peace and reconciliation; sensitizing both the public and the active participants of the festival through music and coexistence.
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International talent
in Costa Rica!
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Dir. Vincent Oakes
The Chattanooga Boys Choir was founded in 1954 and is the oldest children's choir in the southeastern United States. Its musical and educational organization includes more than 100 children in five different groups, representing more than 40 schools in the Chattanooga region. The choir has performed around the world in around 20 countries across 5 continents. In 2013, it was the first American choir to be invited by the Ministry of Culture of Cuba to perform in the country in more than half a century.
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PIEDMONT EAST BAY CHILDREN'S CHOIR
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Dir. Eric Tuan
 Since 1982, the award-winning Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir has offered outstanding music and choral training to hundreds of children from schools in the San Francisco area. Under the leadership of its founder and artistic director Robert Geary, PEBCC seeks to advance the choral arts through education, presentations and collaboration at a high artistic level.
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Director: John Arnold
 Founded in 1984, the Signal Hill Alumni Choir (SHAC) has become a cultural institution and icon of Trinidad and Tobago. Over the years SHAC has gained prestige not only in Trinidad and Tobago but also in the Caribbean, North America, Europe and Latin America. They have presented themselves to world leaders such as Queen Elizabeth and the cleric and pacifist Desmond Tutu of South Africa. They have also had participation in numerous festivals around the world.
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NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S CHOIR
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Dir. Dr. Madeline S. Bridges
Nashville Children's Choir is a regional program of children's choirs, committed to the trial and performance of quality choral music in a positive environment. The organization consists of four level choirs to correspond to the musical development of the choristers. The three choir directors are active as workshop organizers, guest conductors and authors.
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Let's Sing Together in Costa Rica for Peace
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We are an association that focus on the potential of music as an educational means of accomplishing peace, working on abilities for promoting communication, creating social bonding, and creating cooperation; we utilize music to transform social realities and help distance the young from violence.
We use music to promote interpersonal interaction on numerous levels (musical, human, cultural, etc.), particularly in instances where conflicts have actually produced a loss of communication or, what is even worse, a rejection to communicate. Music tries to break down these barriers as well as making itself an element of settlement in between cultures that appear to have difference of opinions.
We want to say that undoubtedly music alone will not bring us a world at peace, but thinking about the present globe overview, which problems are coming to be increasingly more violent and also numerous these days, it is essential that we explore as well as apply the possibilities and also the power of music for relaxed and also effective problem change, both supporting and promoting it, due to the fact that it is progressively becoming an indispensable reference point for transforming and changing the world in which we live, and in which we desire to live.
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