10TH Grand Prix

THAILAND 2017Bangkok | Pattaya

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11th Grand Prix Thailand 201818. - 23. 7. 2018

Bangkok | Pattaya

45th Festival of Songs30. 5. - 3. 6. 2018 | Olomouc

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GRAND PRIX THAILANDJULY 26 - 30, 2017

10th International Choir Festival

BANGKOK | PATTAYA

FESTIVAL ORGANISERS

Festa Musicale z. s., Czech RepublicFesta Olomouc s. r. o., Czech Republic

IN CO-OPERATION

OPERA SIAM Bangkok, ThailandAmbassador City Jomtien Pattaya, Thailand

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Dear conductors, singers, friends of musicThe 10th Grand Prix Thailand choir festival and competition is one of the Festa Musi-cale choral event which is growing up every year. This year, choirs from 4 countries came to Thailand to compete in Grand Prix Competition. I am sure that all perfor-mances will be well received here and that experiences of participating choirs in Thailand will also extend far beyond the stage. I would like to wish all the partici-pants a pleasant and memorable stay in Thailand – Land of Smiles.

I wish you good luck and success

Somtow Sucharitkul

Silpathorn Artist of Thailand Artistic Director, Bangkok FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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Honorable guests, singers and conductors, friends of choral singing it is my great honor to welcome you on the 10th International Choir Festival Grand Prix Thailand. Festival during its existence became an important meeting place of choral singers and conductors. Many thanks for that belongs to Siam Opera and maestro Somtow Sucharitkul – main partner and co-organizer of the festi-val. I believe that festival brings to all its participants many pleasant experiences and we all can together enjoy these beautiful experiences that bring solidarity between people who are united with love for music.

I wish all the best to singers and conductors, good luck during competitionperformances and pleasant stay on Grand Prix Thailand 2017!

Marek KlimešFestival director

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, JULY 27

Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

WORKSHOP

20:00 / Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

FRIDAY, JULY 28

Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

WORKSHOP

17:00 – 19:00 / Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

OPENING CONCERT MARATHON

SATURDAY, JULY 29

9:00 – 14:45 / Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

COMPETITION GRAND PRIX

17:00 – 17:30 / Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FINAL RESULTS

17:30 – 18:30 / Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel Pattaya

ABSOLUTE WINNER COMPETITION

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TIME SCHEDULE

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Saturday 29. 7. 2017Competition venue: Chonburi Hall, Ambassador City Jomtien

Hotel Pattaya

A – CHILDREN`S CHOIRS9:00 - 9:15 Pohang Children’s Choir B – YOUTH CHOIRS (SA, SATB)9:15 - 9:30 Penang Han Chiang High School Choir9:30 - 9:45 Sisaketwittayalai Choir9:45 - 10:05 P. R. C. Choir D – MIXED VOICES (S,A,T,B)10:05 - 10:25 Gita Buana Soedirman Choir10:45 - 11:05 Swara Wadhana11:05 - 11:25 UCSI University Concert Choir11:25 - 11:45 East Wind Chorus

F – POP & JAZZ MUSIC11:45 - 12:05 Sisaketwittayalai Choir E – FOLKLORE13:05 - 13:25 Gita Buana Soedirman Choir13:25 - 13:45 Swara Wadhana13:45 - 14:05 P. R. C. Choir G – SENIOR CHOIRS14:05 - 14:25 Han Chiang Alumni Choir14:25 - 14:45 Yong-In Culture Center Senior Choir14:45 - 15:05 Nasae Choir

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A – CHILDREN`S CHOIRS

COMPETITION PROGRAMMES

Pohang Children’s Choirarr. Kim Hee-jo: Kyung-Bok Palace Song arr. Cool-Jae Huh: Spoonbill Hyun Cheol Lee: Lets Make Peace

Conductor: Lee, Sang-eun

Penang Han Chiang High School Choir 董冬冬 (Dong), 曦 (Chen Xi)Arr. Julin Teoh: (shi jian dou qu na er le, Where Has The Time Gone?)Brendan Graham, Rolf LovlandArr. Roger Emerson: You Raise Me UpTraditional Zambian Folk SongArranged by : Victor C. Johnson: Bonse Aba (All People)

Conductor: Lee, Sang-eun

Sisaketwittayalai ChoirFidal Calalang Jr.: Someone like youAnna Abeleda- Piquero: We will rock you Annie Nepomucceno: Man in the mirror

Conductor: Pakasit Sornkaew

P. R. C. ChoirRise up come on and get readyJoshua fit the battle of JerichoSpirit come down

Conductor: Keng Panyasuriya

B – YOUTH CHOIRS (SA, SATB)

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Gita Buana Soedirman ChoirJosu Elberdin: Izar EderrakZ. Randall Stroope: The Conversion Of SaulFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Jagdlied

Conductor: John Markus Pardede Swara WadhanaArr. Josu Elberdin: Izar Ederrak (The Beautiful Star)Arr. Johannes Brahms: Verlorene Jugend (Op. 104, No. 4)Arr. Josu Elberdin: Cantate Domino

Conductor: Heribertus Hendri Istiawan UCSI University Concert ChoirEric Whitacre: Lux AurumqueGyörgy Orbán: Daemon Irrepit CallidusFreddie Mercury: Bohemian Rhapsody

Conductor: Terrence Ling Hung Shu East Wind ChorusG. O. Pitoni: Cantate DominoSingapura MedleyChi. Suwikan, arr. Ch. Suekiatkajorn: Do lei Do lei

Conductor: Mr. Chalatnai Suekiatkajorn

D – MIXED VOICES (S,A,T,B)

F – POP & JAZZ MUSIC

Sisaketwittayalai ChoirFidal Calalang Jr.: Someone like youAnna Abeleda- Piquero: We will rock you Annie Nepomucceno: Man in the mirror

Conductor: Pakasit Sornkaew

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Gita Buana Soedirman ChoirArr. Fabian Ospio Durasi: SoleramArr. Budi Susanto Yohanes: TardigadingdangdoArr. Avip Priatna And Agustinus Bambang Jusana: Janger

Conductor: John Markus Pardede Swara WadhanaArr. Budi Susanto Yohanes: Luk Luk LumbuArr. Agustinus Bambang Jusana: Yamko Rambe Yamko

Conductor: Heribertus Hendri Istiawan P. R. C. ChoirStodola PumpaPoor wayfaring strangerSalemao 2017 (Lanna Thai traditional folk song)

Conductor: Keng Panyasuriya

E – FOLKLORE

Han Chiang Alumni Choir送别 (sòng bié): Farewell SongThe Lord Bless You and Keep You對花 (duì huā): Antiphonal Flower Song

Conductor: Gan Hui Wan

Yong-In Culture Center Senior ChoirCool-Jae HUH: Pastorale on the RiverHye-Young Jo: Never ForgetCool-Jae HUH: Spring Song

Conductor: CHO, Hyun-Kyoung Nasae ChoirHye Young JO: Wind from the south Giuseppe Verdi: CORO DI SCHIAVI EBREICool-Jae HUH: Dona Nobis Pacem

Conductor: Yoon, Ki Hoon

G – SENIOR CHOIRS

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Cool-Jae is regarded as one of the leading choral composers in Korea and is currently artist in residence for the National Chorus of Korea.

He has served Korean Choral Composers Asso-ciation as chairman since its foundation in 2008, the Seoul International a Cappella Festival as president and Bohol International Choir Festival & Competitions (www.bicfc.com) in the Philippines as artistic director. He also gives lecture on choral arrangement & orchestration in UOS and teaches at many Symposiums/Workshops on choral music in and out of Korea such as Vietnam, Guam, Tai-wan, Australia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

He majored in composition at the University of Seoul (UOS) and traditional Korean music at Seoul National University (SNU) as an undergraduate. It was during this time that he began to travel across the countryside to pursue training in folk music. As he was truly attracted by the distinct sounds from the different regions, he directly tried to apply what he had learned from folk music experiences to his original compositions. He is listed as a biographee of Marquis who‘s who in the World as well, for his music blending Korean traditional music factors with western music common practice successfully. He gained his Master’s degree in traditional Kore-an music composition at SNU and recently finished

his DMA course in choral conducting at Gwang-Ju University (GJU).

As a conductor, he won Grand-Prix from three national choral competitions and one more Grand--Prix from the World Choir Championship. He was also awarded The Most Important Achievements of the Year, the Korean Federation for Choral Mu-sic (KFCM) Award, 2010.

His works are quite popular in Korea due to how they connect with the audience, preserving the original form of traditional elements and em-ploying Korean culture and literature into his music. He has written numerous operas, musical theaters, masses, small pieces, and choral arrangements of traditional music, native art songs, as well as popu-lar songs. Among his larger works, his third mass setting, Missa IEODO was premiered during the 8th World Symposium for Choral Music in Den-mark, in 2008. He started to publish his work ab-road such as Missa Arirang, his maiden work in 2002 by Carus Verlag, Germany and one of his small pieces titled ‘Never Forget’ by Pavane, US in 2016.

Cool-Jae Huh (KOR)

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Doyen of many Malaysian choir directors and singers, Ian is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Dithyrambic Singers and Phoenix Singers. Under his lead, the choirs have claimed numerous awards and titles in various international choir competitions. Notable achievements include: Overall Champion at Busan Choral Festival 2008, Special Jury Prize at Orientale Concentus 2008 and Asian Champion at the Asian Choir Games 2007 amongst many other Gold Medals and Category Champions. He adjudicates choral and vocal competitions and is also in great demand as a choral and vocal clinician at home and abroad. He had conducted master classes and adjudicated in Czech Republic, Singapore, Brunei and Macau. Ian was Chorus Master for the Lyric Opera of Malaysia in their production of “Tosca” and “The Merry Widow”, and Malaysian National Sym-phony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s

Symphony No. 9. Under his direction, Dithyrambic Singers have been featured at the 2009 World Youth Choral Festival, Singapore and performed at Carnegie Hall, USA under the direction of Eric Whitacre premiering his “The City and The Sea” compositions in 2010. Since 2012, Ian had been engaged as the choir director for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra collaborating with interna-tional renowned conductors: Marcello Rota (Tenor Andrea Bocelli Asia Tour 2013) , Arnie Roth (Fi-nal Fantasy I & II), Benjamin Zander (Mahler Symphony 2) , Fabio Mechetti (Opera - Carmen) and with Andreas Delf (Mozart Requiem).

Upcoming engagements include Beethoven 9th

Symphony in August 2017. His students have repre-sented Malaysia at the World Youth Choir, World Chamber Choir, Asia Pacific Youth Choir, Asian Youth Choir, Asian Youth Choir for One and the Indonesian Youth Choir.

Ian Lin Kean Seng (MYS)

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Branko Stark (HR)

Branko Stark (1954), composer, choral director and voice teacher is a teacher at the Arts Academy (University of Split, Croatia) where he educates his students on vocal technique, singing and acting voi-ce. He has written over two hundred compositions, for which he is the recipient of numerous awards. His speciality is voice theory and scientific-pedago-gic research and works published on this subject.

He holds seminars, lectures and workshops for choral conductors and singers worldwide (Ar-gentina, China, Slovenia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, USA, Korea, South Africa, Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, Singapur, Brunei, Latvia, Czech Republic). Mr.

Stark is also a prominent adjudicator for many in-ternational choral competitions (Germany, Austria, Croatia, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Lat-via, Italy, Sri Lanka, Korea).

He is the President of the Croatian Choral Di-rectors Association, leader of the Vocal Academy, and a member of the International Council of the World Choir Games.

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Andrea Brown (UK)

Ms. Brown first studied singing at the RSAMD and later winning a scholarship for further studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. As a sopra-no, she has performed and recorded with some of the finest professional ensembles in the UK inclu-ding the Academy of Ancient Music, Ex Cathedra and Chapelle du Roi.

Ms. Brown is the Musical Director of the Festi-val Chorus and Associate Conductor of the Fourth Choir, having recently conducted them at their first King’s Place performance. She also works regular-ly with other choirs including the London Oriana Choir, North London Chorus and Voicelab. Cu-rrently on sabbatical at the Royal Academy of Mu-sic, she was recently Director of Music at Morley College leading on a number of ground-breaking

projects with organisations such as the BBC Singers and the Southbank Centre. Highlights include a collaboration with the LPO, Voicelab and 400 co-mmunity choir singers in Tippett‘s ‚A Child of Our Time‘ at the Royal Festival Hall.

She has been the Music Director of Diversity Choir, Morley Chamber Choir, Koruso and the Artistic Director of Various Voices, an international choral festival which was awarded an Inspire mark from the London 2012 Olympics Committee. An-drea is an accomplished vocal coach and co-foun-ded the award-winning Women Conductors @ Morley programme, designed to encourage, edu-cate and promote women within the conducting profession.

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Cassandra Black (USA)

Cassandra Aaron Black has performed as a soloist in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, China, throughout the United States, and is making her Thailand debut. The Houston Chronicle described her as “Moving, masterful, and marvelous,” Culture Map called her „Nothing short of thrilling,“ and the St. Petersburg Times said “Cassandra was dazzling.”

Since her operatic debut, she has been sought after for more than twenty leading soprano roles in both the contemporary and standard repertoire such as “Marie Antoinette” in The Ghosts of Ver-sailles, “Doll Common” in Vera of Las Vegas, “Flo-ria Tosca,” “Leonore” in Fidelio, “Donna Anna,” and “Fiordiligi,” to name a few.

One of Cassandra‘s highlights has been portraying the extremely demanding role of “The Dirty Duche-ss, Margaret of Argyll” in Thomas Ades‘ Powder Her Face for which UK‘s Opera Magazine said,

“Cassandra Black …was fully up to the musical and dramatic challenges. Unfazed by the punishingly wide-range vocal writing she sang with allure and acted with assurance.”

Ms. Black’s concert appearances include the Hous-ton Symphony, the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Veridian Symphony and the Woodlands Sympho-ny as well as a concert with Opera Louisiane.

Recently Ms. Black covered Norma with St. Peter-sburg Opera, sang her first Verdi Requiem, two Mozart Requiems, and two role debuts as „Donna Anna“ in Don Giovanni and the Mother in Hänsel und Gretel with Opera in the Heights. This coming season she will be returning to the Skylight to sing her her first Tosca and revisit her success as the „Dirty Duchess“ in Powder Her Face.

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Stacey Tappan (USA)

Stacey Tappan has distinguished herself as an excepti-onal musical artist in the United States and abroad. In stellar reviews for her „witty and sexy“ Adele in Die Fle-dermaus with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, she was praised for the production‘s „most polished singing... her coloratura bright and well-focused.“ Plaudits for her Gil-da in Rigoletto with Opéra de Lille and Opéra de Dijon included, „the revelation of the evening“ -- „a luminous Gilda“ -- tremendous American soprano“ -- „a magnificent discovery“ and „high notes of a splendid sweetness.“

Recent engagements for Ms. Tappan have included the world premiere of Adamo’s The Gospel of Mary Mag-dalene with San Francisco Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor with Arizona Opera; Clorinda in La cenerentola, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, and Krenek’s Das Gehei-me Königreich, under the baton of James Conlon with Los Angeles Opera; the Charmeuse in Thaïs at the Edinburgh Festival; Adina in L‘elisir d‘Amore, and Despina in Così fan tutte with the Jacksonville Symphony; Carmina Bura-na with the Colorado Symphony; the Ring Cycle with San Francisco Opera; and performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Ms. Tappan‘s concert work has included Beethoven‘s Christ on the Mount of Olives with the Springfield Sym-phony in Massachusetts, Carmina Burana with the Colo-rado, Wichita, Elgin, Springfield, and Jacksonville sym-phonies, and Hansel and Gretel and Mahler‘s Second Symphony with the DuPage Symphony Orchestra. Chica-go concert highlights include „Bernstein on Broadway“ with the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Hugh Wood‘s Scenes from Comus with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago,

three performances of the Stars of Lyric Opera concerts in Chicago‘s Millennium Park, and Mendelssohn‘s Midsu-mmer Night‘s Dream at Ravinia Festival. She portrayed Cunegonde in Candide at the Chicago Cultural Center, later returning in Rossini‘s Il signor Bruschino and Ravel‘s L‘Enfant et les Sortilèges and winning critical acclaim as „the vocal showstopper.“

Ms. Tappan made her professional debut with Houston Grand Opera as Beth in Little Women, broadcast on PBS‘ Great Performances. With Bangkok Opera, she portray-ed Pamina in Die Zauberflöte after singing the title role in Madana, the first grand opera by a Thai composer. She is featured on the best-selling Thai recording of the Maha-janaka Symphony, a work honoring the King of Thailand. Her operetta roles include Mabel in Pirates of Penzance with Michigan Opera Theatre, and Hannah Glawari in The Merry Widow and Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate with Chicago‘s Light Opera Works.

Her awards include grants from the Elardo Competition and the Solti Foundation U.S., first place in the Licia Al-banese-Puccini Foundation competition, finalist in the Ma-cAllister and Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum competitions, the Richard F. Gold Career Grant, the Lucrezia Bori award, and first place from the New York Singing Teachers Association, as well as scholarships from Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the University of Miami, and Chapman University.

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Damian Whiteley (AUS)

Australian bass Damian Whiteley studied at Uni-versity of Sydney, RNCM in Manchester & the young artist programme IOS at Opernhaus Zü-rich. As a member of l‘Académie Européenne de Musique, Damian participated in the Peter Brook production of Don Giovanni conducted by Clau-dio Abbado/Daniel Harding at Festival d‘Aix-en--Provence & world tour. Performs regularly with William Christie/Les Arts Florissants, including at Teatro Real Madrid (Monteverdi‘s L‘Incoronazione di Poppea), Opera Comique Paris (Deborah War-ner’s production of Purcell‘s Dido & Aeneas).

Major roles in Germany in Salieri‘s Falstaff, Graun‘s Cesare e Cleopatra, Gazzaniga‘s Don Giovanni, Paisiello‘s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Recent-ly Musica Speranza (a Mozart pasticcio) at the Salzburg Landestheater, Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in Dublin, Grande Inquisitore in Verdi’s Don Carlo in Spain, and a debut solo CD Bass Instinct with acclaimed Australian pianist Ta-mara Anna Cislowska and tours of Australia, New Zealand, Germany & Switzerland in mozart & ME, a one-man show based on the life of Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Paduan Suara Mahasiswa Gita Buana Soedir-man (PSM GBS) is student activity unit in Jenderal Soedirman University (Unsoed) Purwokerto In-donesia, focusing on vocal and music especially choir. Established in 2000, PSM GBS has some achievements that we have successfully achieved both in National and International level: Gold Me-dal for Male Choir category at LPS USM VIII 2014, Semarang Indonesia, Silver Medal for Folklore Ca-tegory at LPS USM VIII 2014, Semarang Indone-sia, Gold Medal for Mixed Youth Choir Category at 4th Bali International Choir Festival 2015, Bali

Indonesia, Gold Medal for Folklore Category at 4th Bali International Choir Festival 2015, Bali Indonesia, Silver Medal for Mixed Youth Choir Category at 3rd Singapore International Choral Festival 2016, Singapore, Silver Medal for Folklo-re Category at 3rd Singapore International Choral Festival 2016, Singapore. John Markus Pardede is the best conductor in PSM GBS. Besides competi-tion, PSM GBS always performs in national event and others. PSM GBS has a motto “MAJU TERUS PANTANG MENYERAH!” (Keep onward,never give up!)

Gita Buana Soedirman ChoirCategory: D, E

Conductor: John Markus Pardede

City, country: Purwokerto, Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia

The community choir of Eastern Asia Univer-sity „East Wind Chorus“ was established by the chancellor of Eastern Asia University Dr. Chotirus Chavanit in 2010. They has grown up step by step in a few years ago. And they joined many major activities of the university such as The Thai national father‘s day with Fine Arts Department of Thailand at the Thai national theater in 2011, the graduation ceremony, „Maneenoparat Day“ it is the day to re-mind everyone to the founder of Eastern Asia Uni-versity, new student orientation and participated in The Celebration on the Auspicious Occasion of His

Majesty the King’s 7th Cycle Birthday Anniversary. Furthermore they signed the collaborate associati-on with other 6 institute including Chulalongkorn university, Thammasat university, Kasetsart univer-sity, Assamption university, Bangkok university and Eastern Asia University to develop Thai identities also Thai value.

East Wind ChorusCategory: D

Conductor: Mr. Chalatnai Suekiatkajorn

City, country: Bangkok, Thailand

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HCA Choir (Han Chiang Alumni Choir) was formed in June 20, 2000 in response to alumni wanting an opportunity to continue their associ-ation with the Han Chiang community and with one another. The objective of the choir is to pro-vide artistic events and resources for Han Chiang Alumni to maintain their ties to Han Chiang. The Choir rehearses once a week and its repertoire includes Chinese, Western and Malay folk songs.

Today, HCA Choir has 30 members. Over the years HCA Choir plays an active role in participa-ting in all sorts of senior choral exchange activities and performing in the Kuala Lumpur Music Festival in Malaysia.

Han Chiang Alumni ChoirCategory: G

Conductor: Gan Hui Wan

City, country: Selangor, Malaysia

The Na-Sae Choir, which belongs to the Any-ang Civic Volunteer Center, means to sing and serve newly day by day. It was founded in 2006, centered on the elderly who are 50 to 80 years old. Since its foundation, they regularly visit the el-derly nursing homes and hospitals and continue to perform the concert. The 60 members, leaded by president Ms. Young-Ja Kim, are gathering twice a week for practice under the directorship of Mr.

Ki-hoon, Yoon. They won the Grand Prize for the senior category from National Recreation Com-petitions in 2010, the Encouragement Prize for the Daegu Silver Chorus Competition sponsored by the Ministry of Environment in 2015, the Silver Pri-ze for the Gyeonggi Province Talent Performance Competition, and the National Volunteer Compe-tition.

Nasae ChoirCategory: G

Conductor: Yoon, Ki Hoon

City, country: An-yang, South Korea

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Han Chiang Private High School Choir Society was established in 1978 with the aim of creating a platform for students to showcase their talent in vocal and singing. Since its inception, the society grown to become one of the most active society in the school. This comes with a string of achieve-ments the society has achieved under the guidan-ce and leaderships of teacher advisors as well as the lead coaches. Among the more accomplished

achievement in recent memory was the 27th Pri-mary and Secondary Schools Choir Competition in Penang where we won the Gold Medal Prize. Apart from competitions, we are also invited to par-ticipate in charity concerts. This offers students an opportunity to perform. This will surely cultivate a sense of humility and kindness to the students and vital in social and character upbringing.

Penang Han Chiang High School ChoirCategory: B

Conductor: Ms. Julin Teoh, Ms. Chong Kim Lan

City, country: Penang, Malaysia

The Pohang Boys and Girls Choir, which was founded in 1990, held 24th regular concert. In 2011, they was introduced to people when the 1st KBS All--Korea Grand Festival,The harmony, was held. Since then, they performed with The Little Signers of Paris and had a concert at Sejong Center for the Perfor-ming Arts. In 2013, they took part in the 19th Interna-tional Youth Choir Competition in Habanera, Spain. In 2016, they collaborated with National Choir at

Arts Center in the Korea Chorus Festival 2016. When they won second place of the Daekyo Children TV Chorus Korea Choir, they donated the prize money to Pohang City Scholoarship Foundation. In 2017, they participated in the Citizen Harmony Choral Festival 2017 and presented beautiful songs to the citizens of Poahang. They give an effort to support the communi-ty of Pohang and make better culture performing arts

Pohang Children’s ChoirCategory: A

Conductor: Lee, Sang-eun

City, country: Po-hang city, South Korea

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sponses. P.R.C. Chorus is a very new choir in and it‘s founded by administer of the school in 2017. to serve the ministry of God in school by sing in any occasion and also sing in the local church and another special occasion.the members of the choir are all students from grade 9 to 12.

The Price Royal‘s College is a school with a clear Christian base under the foundation of the Church of Christ in Thailand. Religious services and public prayers in the school are in the Christian tradition.The school‘s operation and the basis for all relationships within the school reflect its Chris-tian foundation. PRC encourages students to learn about God‘s love and the Christian spirits so that they may make their own educated personal re-

P. R. C. ChorusCategory: B, E

Conductor: Keng Panyasuriya

City, country: Chiangmai, Thailand

The choir of Sisaketwittayalai were Founded in 2008 by the interested in the chorus of Mr.Paka-sit Sornkaew - a song director with a small group of students in the school. He was inspired by Acappella 7 to start practicing and performing at school and province events and activities. With no experience in this field before. Later, the choir of Sisaketwittayalai Has developed into acceptable in the capacity. Represented in the 2008 Student

Arts Competition, and that year was the first step in learning the right choral chorus. After that, Sisa-ketwittayalai Choir has continued to develop until they have won the junior high school art award.In 2015, the choir has joined 8th International Choir Grand Prix Pattaya 2015 and won 2 silver medals in Mixed Youth Choir Category and Spiritual & Gospel Category.

Sisaketwittayalai ChoirCategory: B, F

Conductor: Pakasit Sornkaew

City, country: Sisaket, Thailand

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Swara Wadhana Choir is a choir group organi-zed by students of Yogyakarta State

University. It was not a choir group at first, but it was a group of people playing ensemble music. In 1986, this group decided to transform to be a choir group as they had received requests as choir. The last competition that we joined was in The 5th Bali Inter-national Choir

Festival 2016 at Bali and brought home two sil-ver medals as the 3rd placed for folklore and mixed choir categories. In the same year, we also stepped on a Vocal Group Competition by Goverment of Yo-

gyakarta Special Province and we jumped home as The Third Winner which preceeded 7th A Voyage of Songs by Konzert in 2015 at Penang, Malaysia and we flew home as The Top 8 Champion (Winner Open Mixed Choir, Gold C Medal Open Mixed Choir, Gold C Medal Folklore). Another national choir competition which we jumped on was in 2011 when we achieved the third position and this was held by Tarumanegara University. In 2012 we were in the list of top five at a national choir competition held by Semarang University.

Swara Wadhana Category: D, E

Conductor: Heribertus Hendri Istiawan

City, country: Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Over the years, the UCSI University Concert Choir has consolidated its reputation in Malaysia and begun to develop a reputation beyond Malay-sian shores. The UCSI Concert Choir currently con-sists of 68 members enrolled in both Classical and Contemporary music programs. The choir attempts to explore various genres of choral music as well as ex-pose students to different choral singing techniques.

Together with the Chamber Choir, the Concert Choir has worked with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orche-stra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, under the baton of Maestro Benjamin Zander. In July 2016, the choir also competed in the 9th Orientale Concentus International Choral Festival.

UCSI University Concert ChoirCategory: D

Conductor: Terrence Ling Hung Shu

City, country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Our choir, which is a gathering of senior who love music, was established in September 2009. Through music, we practice share and using choir talent to interchange for good use of spare time to singing choir to make joyful and pretty our spare years. We attend Local events, play concert regu-larly once a year and participate national chorus competition to expand our ability by compete with skillful choirs. Also give back to the commu-

nity of the joy of learning through music to visiting volunteer facilities like nursing home and disabled facilities. The beautiful harmonies that contain the wisdom of age make audience sympathize. Where enjoy together and sharing’s are contributes to hei-ghtening the pride of a happy Yong-in city.

Yong-In Culture Center Senior ChoirCategory: G

Conductor: CHO, Hyun-Kyoung

City, country: Yong-In City, South Korea

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