Nordic-Baltic Choir Festival
The Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival (officially English Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival ) is an international choir festival that has been taking place every two years since 1995 and is alternately organized by a national choir association of a Baltic or Nordic country. Several thousand singers have participated in each festival so far.
The idea of a festival with choirs from all parts of Northern Europe went back to the Latvian conductor Imants Kokars . Only choirs from Nordic or Baltic countries are eligible to participate.
Events
- 1st Festival: July 1995, Riga ( Latvia )
- 2nd Festival: 1997, Visby / Gotland ( Sweden )
- 3rd Festival: 2000, Skien ( Norway )
- 4th Festival: 2002, Klaipėda ( Lithuania )
- 5th Festival: 5th to 10th August 2008, Tartu ( Estonia )
- 6th Festival: August 17th to 22nd, 2010 Reykjavík ( Iceland )
- 7th Festival: August 22-25, 2012, Helsinki ( Finland )
- 8th Festival: June 25-28, 2015, Riga ( Latvia )
- 9th festival: planned for 2019 in Sweden
Based on this, the Nordic Singers Association has organized its own men's choir festival every five years (English: Nordic-Baltic Male Choir Festival ) since 2006 :
- 1st festival: 25-27 May 2006, Tallinn ( Estonia )
- 2. Festival: 15. – 17. June 2012, Tartu ( Estonia )
- 3rd festival: 12-14 May 2016, Reykjavík ( Iceland )
- 4th Festival: 17. – 19. April 2020, Helsinki ( Finland )