Academy Singers - the proud winners of Grado
"Isola del Sole" ends with a fantastic Grand Prize Competition
The Academy Singers from Austria are the Grand Prize Winners at the "Isola del Sole - International Choir Competition & Festival" in Grado, Italy. In the final competition of the best choirs they convinced the international jury and were awarded the prize - endowed with 1500 Euros. Congratulations!
In the Awards Ceremony all choirs learned the results of their competition performances.
The category winners are:
Category A1 - Mixed Choirs - Difficulty level I
Tarumanagara University Choir Jakarta, Indonesia
conducted by Adi Nugroho
Category A2 - Male Choirs - Difficulty level I
Liederkranz Netphen e.V., Germany
conducted by Thomas Bröcher
Category A3 - Female Choirs - Difficulty level I
Pěvecké sdružení Jousrtirja vských učitelek, Czech Republic
conducted by Jurij Galatenko
Category B1 - Mixed Choirs - Difficulty level II
PSM Satya Dharma Gita FH UNDIP, Indonesia
conducted by Roni Sugiarto
Category B3 - Female Choirs - Difficulty level II
PSM Satya Dharma Gita FH UNDIP, Indonesia
conducted by Roni Sugiarto
Category F - Folklore
Tarumanagara University Choir Jakarta, Indonesia
conducted by Adi Nugroho
Category G1 - Childrens Choirs
Shanghai Little Star Chorus, China
conducted by Lu Zhang
Category G2 - Youth Choirs of equal voices
Coro Giovanile Voceincanto, Italy
conducted by Gianna Ghiori
Category G3 - Youth Choirs of mixed voices
Academy Singers, Austria
conducted by Bernhard Höchtel
Category S - Sacred Choral Music
Academy Singers, Austria
conducted by Manfred Payrhuber
Further the jurors decided to award two Special Prizes to outstanding achievements: E STuudio Children`s Choir from Estonia received a prize for their outstanding performance of Karl Jenkins' "Rain Dance" and the Italian choir Coro Voci Bianchi Voceincanto was awarded the Special Prize "Orlando Dipiazza" for their outstanding program selection regarding pedagogical and didactical aspects particularly suitable to the age of the performers.
Congratulations to all participants. Check out the list of results (PDF, 319 KB) for all choirs and scores!