European Choir Games
The European Choir Games are an international choir competition that took place for the first time in 2013 as the European counterpart to the World Choir Games . Every two years, alternating with the World Choir Games, a different European city hosts the competition. The organizer is the Förderverein Interkultur e. V. with its President Günter Titsch .
Venues
| year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| competition | Host city | date | Attendees | |
| 2013 | 1st European Choir Games | Graz , Austria | 14.-21. July 2013 | 72 choirs from 35 nations |
| 2015 | 2. European Choir Games | Magdeburg , Germany | 5th - 12th July 2015 | 100 choirs from 35 nations 1 |
| 2017 | 3rd European Choir Games | Riga , Latvia | 16.-23. July 2017 | 156 choirs from 30 nations 1 |
| 2019 | 4th European Choir Games | Gothenburg , Sweden | 3rd - 10th August 2019 | 171 choirs from 47 nations 1 |
1 : Together with the international Grand Prix of Nations, which was held at the same time
Competition mode
The choirs are divided into categories that summarize comparable casts (e.g. children, youth, men, women, mixed choirs) or comparable artistic orientations (e.g. pop, gospel, folklore choirs, church choirs). It is also possible for a choir to stand in several categories of the jury. The five to seven-member jury assesses the performance level of the choirs using defined criteria. The competitions take place in several stages.
There are no prerequisites in the Open Competition . Choirs from all over the world are admitted to this section regardless of their current level of performance, and choirs with little or no competition experience are expressly invited. The participants find out their level of performance through the jury evaluation and receive a certificate. If a minimum number of points has been reached, the choir can be forwarded directly to the next level.
The European Champions Competition is designed for experienced choirs from Europe who have already proven their level of performance in other international competitions, meet objective admission criteria, have been recommended by a national ministry of education or a choir association or have qualified by participating in a preceding qualification concert with a jury decision .
The Grand Prix of Nations has been taking place at the same time as the European Choir Games since 2015. This is not only reserved for European choirs, but is open to choirs from all over the world. Since then, the Grand Prix has represented the third stage of the competition, for which the entry requirements are similar to those for the European Champions Competition.