These are the Champions
The results of the World Choir Games have been announced
After altogether 53 concerts the first winners of the World Choir Games were announced today. During the Award Ceremony in the Bolshoy Ice Dome all participating choirs of the first part were present.
Only in The Champions Competition 55 Gold Medals, 46 silver and 4 bronze medals were awarded. With altogether 50 medals the host country Russia belongs to the overall winners of the day, followed by China with 22 medals, Republic of Korea with 6, Indonesia with 4 and South Africa with 4 medals.
In The Open Competition the international jury awarded 33 Golden, 37 Silver and 5 Bronze Diplomas.
These are the first Champions of the World Choir Games 2016:
Category C2: Children’s Choirs
Children’s Choir “Alye Parus”, Russia
conducted by Elena Volodina
Category C3: Youth Choirs of Equal Voices
Guangdong Experimental Middle School Choir, China
conducted by Mingjing Xie
Category C5: Mixed Boys’ Choirs
Chapel of Boys and Young Men of the Sverdlovsk State Children Philharmonic, Russia
conducted by Viacheslav Kulmametev
Category C6: Mixed Youth Choirs
Guangdong Experimental High School Choir, China
conducted by Mingjing Xie
Category C10: Mixed Choirs
Student Choir of Nankai University, China
conducted by Chaomei Meng
Category C12: Female Choirs
Gaudeamus Korala, Spain
conducted by Julia Foruria
Category C14: Male Choirs
Male Choir MEPhl, Russia
conducted by Nadezhda Malyavina
Category C15: Senior Choirs
Hunan Zhiqing Art Troupe, China
conducted by Yuefeng Zhou & Jun Wang
Category C17: Musica Sacra with accompaniment
Credo, Russia
conducted by Natalia Koznova
Category C24: Pop Ensembles
Canzona, Russia
conducted by Nataliya Nilova
Category C26: Scenic Pop / Show Choirs
Harmonize, Republic of Korea
conducted by Jangseok Oh
Category C27: Folklore a cappella
Wenzhou Female Choir, China
conducted by Yuefei Zou & Xuxiang Zou
Category C29: Scenic Folklore
Student Choir of Nankai University, China
conducted by Chaomei Meng
Congratulations to all participating choirs to these outstanding successes! We are more than happy having you aboard the worldwide largest international choir festival in 2016!
All results can be found here:
