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Sligo Choral Festival 2010
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

2010 - The 23rd Annual SLIGO INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL will take place from Thursay November 11th - Sunday 14th 2010


Cead Mile Failte! It is indeed a great pleasure to invite you to the 23rd Annual SLIGO INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL from November 11th - 14th 2010.

We are delighted that THE SLIGO CHAMPION and FAILTE IRELAND NORTH-WEST have come on board again as our major commercial sponsors and the organising committee look forward to working with them again in 2010.

We are also indebted to The Arts Council, Sligo Borough Council and Sligo County Council for their financial assistance, not forgetting our ever-loyal and generous local sponsors, patrons and advertisers.

As the saying goes, “The youth of today are the adults of tomorrow”, so with that in mind and with the success of the youth and school choirs competitions in 2009, we have added even more competitions and workshops for these categories in 2010. An additional workshop has been added for Adult/Senior Choirs on the night of Thursday, November 11th.

 

Timetable of events for 2010 is posted below.


Sligo International Choral Festival - 2010 syllabus

DATE

TIME

VENUE

CHOIR/GROUP

Thursday
Nov. 11th
     

 

 

8.00pm
Mercy College Sligo

Workshop/Masterclass for Adult/Senior Choirs

       
Friday 
Nov. 12th
     

 

 

All Day

Mercy College Sligo

Workshop/Masterclasses for Primary, Secondary School

and Youth Choirs followed by Competitions

       

 

8.00 p.m.

Mercy College Sligo

Official Opening and Concert featuring The Sligo Academy of Music, Sinfonietta and Folk Song Competition

       

 

10.30 p.m.

Southern Hotel

Festival Club

       
Saturday
Nov 13th
     

 

 

09.30 a.m.

Mercy College & St. Anne’s Church

Competitions for Mixed Choirs  - 3 categories - Cometitions A, B, and C, from 9.30 a.m. (Male Voice Choirs, Female Voice Choirs, Sacred Music, Barbershop and Gospel)

       

 

Various

Various

Choirs singing in Pubs, on the Streets & in Shopping Centres

       

 

8.00 p.m.

Mercy College

Grand Prix Final – Competition A

       

 

10.30 p.m.

Sligo Park Hotel

Festival Club

       
Sunday
Nov 14th
     

 

 

Morning

Various

Church Services

       

 

Afternoon

Sligo Park Hotel

 Farewell Brunch and Singsong for all Choirs


As usual, choirs will entertain shoppers on the Saturday 13th  and will enhance the various religious services on the Sunday 14th.

Choirs are invited to sing at Church Services during the  International Choral Festival on Sunday morning. If interested, please indicate on the entry form!


The Committee of the Sligo International Choral Festival reserves the right to alter the venues and/or alter or cancel the programme at its discretion and without notice.
 

Please note the closing date of August 1st – we will not accept any entries after that date.

SLIGO INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL, can be contacted at the following address

 Sligo Choral Festival, c.o I.T.S.B.I.C., Business Innovation Centre, Institute of Technology Campus, Ballinode, Sligo, Ireland 

Telephone/Fax. 00353 71 91 38791 and mobile  00353 86 2592290 

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We look forward to another feast of Choral Music in November 2010.

 

Our competition venues, once again, will be THE MERCY COLLEGE and the nearby ST. ANNE’S CHURCH. The Opening Concert on the night of Friday, Nov. 12th, will feature, among others, the wonderful Sligo Academy of Music Sinfonietta, conducted by their founder and Musical Director, Niamh Crowley. The organising committee are presently organising other fringe events including a novel Sunday farewell brunch/singsong for participating choirs in a Sligo hotel.

We look forward to welcoming participating choirs from Mainland and Eastern Europe as well as choirs from the U.K. and from all parts of Ireland, North and South.

We would urge all choirs to book their accommodation as soon as possible – see accommodation page for details .


We look forward to welcoming you and your choir to Sligo in November.

Joe Kelly, Chairman. 

 Sligo Choral Festival Sligo Choral Festival


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Entry Procedure
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Rules


Eligibility to compete
1. No singer may be a member of more than one choir in each competition.

Repertoire
1. No choir may sing the same repertoire in two different competitions.
2. Adjudicators will award marks for the technical and artistic  quality of the chosen programme and the overall quality of its performance. They will also take into account how well the choir communicates with the
audience in a performance situation.
3. Change/s to submitted programme/s is/are not permitted.
4. In competitions A, the combined performance time of the chosen programmes must not exceed 12 minutes. In all other competitions, the combined time of the chosen programme must not exceed 8 minutes.
5. The adjudicators will penalise choirs whose programmes exceed the prescribed limits.
6. The use of any pitched instrument is not permitted in competition A.
7. Sheet music is not necessary for Gospel or Barbershop Competitions.

Entry procedure

1. Entry fee of Q50 per choir and per competition must accompany each  entry - fees are not refundable.  
2. Only original sheet music may be submitted with the application - photocopies are not acceptable.
(a)  Choirs entering competition A should submit 4 original copies of each piece. Each piece of music should be identified to comply with criteria (1), (11), (111).
(b)  Choir entering all other competitions should submit 2 original copies of each piece.

n.b Competitors are reminded that it is illegal to photocopy (or copy by any other means) works which are copyright, without the permission of the copyright holder. The festival and/or adjudicator/s may refuse  photocopied items where competitors cannot produce proof of permission to copy. Should a choir do so, the Committee will accept no responsibility for any action taken later by the publishers.

3. Choirs requiring the services of the festival accompanist must submit an extra copy of sheet music marked  “Official Accompanist Copy”
4. Each entry must be made on a separate official entry form  - photocopy if necessary.
5. Translations should be submitted where appropriate.
6. Incomplete entries will be returned.
7. Late entries will be accepted only in exceptional circumstances.
8. Our bankers are - Bank of Ireland, Stephen Street, Sligo, Ireland.
Acccount No.: 2644 7302, Sort Code: 905440

General

1. The decisions of the adjudicators will be final in all competitions and no correspondence will be entered
into regarding any aspect of their work.
2. The committee reserves the right to refuse entries.
3. The committee reserves the right to cancel a competition if it is of the opinion that -
a. sufficient entries have not been received.
b. the submitted programme does not, in the opinion of the music subcommittee, reach the desired standard.

4. The committee reserves the right to restrict the number of entries in any class where the maximum
number, which can be adequately dealt with, has been reached.
5. The time shown on the programme will be the time at which the particular session commences. The committee reserves the right to change the order of events at its discretion.
6. The decisions of the committee in all matters arising out of, or not specifically  covered in these rules, are final.
7. The committee accepts no legal responsibility whatsoever in respect of anything  pertaining to a choir's
participation in the festival and its associated activities.
8. Please book your accommodation as soon as possible.
9. Please submit all items as per CHECK LIST on ENTRY FORM
10. Choirs should bring their own keyboards for practice/warm-up.
11. Choirs competing in competition G - Gospel Choirs - may only use piano or keyboard and no other instruments.
12. Choirs will not be allowed to practice on stage before competition.
13. All choirs must provide their own transport.
14. Schools competitions L, M, N, O and P are open only to School based choirs. Members of individual choirs must  be members of the same School and in the intererests of fairness, these competitions are not open to privately-run choirs e.g. Schools of Music, Stage Schools etc. There is a Youth Choir Competion for such choirs.
15. ALL CHOIRS SHOULD HAVE A MINIMUM OF 12  VOICES

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