The sound of the World Choir Games

Bell Manufacturers Verdin Company designs and creates the Peace Bell for the 2012 World Choir Games

The Verdin Company designs and creates the Peace Bell for the 2012 World Choir Games. The Bell is one of the signature symbols of the WCG, the world’s largest choral competition, inspired by the Olympic idea.

The concept for the Peace Bell was initiated by INTERKULTUR in 2000 at the first World Choir Games (former Choir Olympics) in Linz, Austria. Since then the bell has been ringing at the Opening of the competition, calling for all nations to sing and celebrate together in peace. The last sound of the competition is to hear with the chiming of the bell at the Closing ceremony.

Jim Verdin, President of the Verdin Company, says about the new project:” We have designed thousands of bells over the course of our company’s history, and we’re as excited about this project as any in recent memory.” Verdin and his team are honored to create “a special Peace Bell for what promises to be one of the great events in the history of our city.”

The traditional company from Cincinnati has been manufacturing church bells, clocks and carillons since 1842. Also Verdin delivered the technical equipment for the World Peace Bell in Newport, Kentucky. The bell was inaugurated on December 31, 1999 and chimed for the first time with the beginning of the new year 2000.

Other notable installations by Verdin include the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., USA and Walt Disney World Resort.

Cincinnati, USA is the first city in the USA to host the World Choir Games. The bell will be calling 20 000 participants and ten thousands of visitors from all over for the largest and most important global event of the city. Registration is still open until December 1, 2011.