From 29 October to 1 November, the Leidor Theatre hosted the 57th Tolosa Choral Competition, with the London-based choir The Epiphoni Consort winning the Grand Prize and earning the honour of representing Tolosa at the 2027 European Choral Grand Prix in Arezzo. The London choir also took top honours in the polyphony and folk categories, although in the latter it had to share the prize ex aequo with the competition\u2019s other award-winning group, APZ Tone Tom\u0161i\u010d from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.<\/p>\n
The Tolosa competition belongs to the select club of the continent\u2019s finest choral competitions, alongside those in Arezzo (Italy), Debrecen (Hungary), Maribor (Slovenia), Jurmala (Latvia) and Varna (Bulgaria). The winners from each of these competitions go on to compete the following year in this sort of \u2018Choral Champions\u2019 event, which is held on a rotating basis in one of the aforementioned cities. Tolosa hosted it last year for the sixth time. It had previously done so in 1994, 2000, 2006, 2011 and 2017.<\/p>\n
Over the course of a week, Tolosa welcomed 14 choirs from 10 countries. In the Chamber Choirs category:<\/p>\n
-Ensemble Vocapella Limburg (Germany)<\/p>\n
-Zwozwoeins Men\u2019s Choir (Germany)<\/p>\n
-The Academic Choir Tone Tomsic (Slovenia)<\/p>\n
– Chamber Choir Ipavska (Slovenia)<\/p>\n
– Jakarta Youth Choir (Indonesia)<\/p>\n
– Vox Angelica Choir (Indonesia)<\/p>\n
– Coro Musicanova (Italy)<\/p>\n
– Ewha Women\u2019s Choir (South Korea)<\/p>\n
– Mixed Choir Juventus (Latvia)<\/p>\n
– The Epiphoni Consort (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n
These were joined by four ensembles in the Children\u2019s Choirs category:<\/p>\n
-Bulgarian National Radio Children\u2019s Choir (Bulgaria)<\/p>\n
-Peque\u00f1as Voces de La Alhambra (Spain)<\/p>\n
-Saint Angela Choir (Indonesia)<\/p>\n
-Kajet\u00e1n Children\u2019s Opera Choir (Czech Republic)<\/p>\n
Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n Kutxa Grand Prix:<\/strong> The Epiphoni Consort (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n Polyphony<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. The Epiphoni Consort (United Kingdom)<\/p>\n 2. APZ Tone Tom\u0161i\u010d (Slovenia)<\/p>\n 3. Mixed Choir Juventus (Latvia)<\/p>\n Folklore or popular music<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. (joint winners) The Epiphoni Consort (United Kingdom) and APZ Tone Tom\u0161i\u010d (Slovenia)<\/p>\n 2. Mixed Choir Juventus (Latvia)<\/p>\n 3. Vox Angelica Choir (Indonesia)<\/p>\n Children\u2019s Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Kajet\u00e1n Children\u2019s Opera Choir (Czech Republic)<\/p>\n 2. Saint Angela Choir (Indonesia)<\/p>\n 3. Peque\u00f1as Voces de la Alhambra (Granada, Andalusia, Spain)<\/p>\n Best performance of a Basque work:<\/strong> Peque\u00f1as Voces de la Alhambra (Granada), for \u2018Besarkatu ninduzun\u2019 by Josu Elberdin<\/p>\n Audience Award:<\/strong> APZ Tone Tom\u0161i\u010d (Slovenia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 29 October to 1 November, the Leidor Theatre hosted the 57th Tolosa Choral Competition, with the London-based choir The Epiphoni Consort winning the Grand Prize and earning the honour of representing [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":17164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17173\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cittolosa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}