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Become a Friend of the Festival
Would you like to play an important role in the success of the Festival, while enjoying a wide range of benefits including concert tickets with priority seating, exclusive receptions, and having your name listed in our festival catalogue? Find out more about becoming a Friend of the Festival … and a special thank you to all our Friends to date!
Sponsorship Opportunities
4,500 voices... 85 performances... from more than 20 countries... for 5 days in Cork! If your company is interested in being part of something extraordinary in 2010, please
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the Festival Manager for more information.
Festival Highlight CDs
A wonderful compilation of CDs, featuring concerts and extracts from competitive performances since 1994 have been produced. The Festival continues to produce a CD each year, featuring highlights of the previous year's Festival. If you would like to purchase any of our CDs, please send us an email. We can post them out to anywhere in the world for just €15 per CD! Click here for a full list of CD's and tracklists.
Choral Agenda
- Sun Aug 2nd: White Raven in Concert, Ballymeloe House
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This year's Festival in pictures and video
July 2009
The 55th Choral Festival truly presented something for everyone: from performances by just one solo singer to performances by a full choir and orchestra; performances in the Concert Hall at the City Hall, to performances in schools, libraries, even at the top of Shandon Steeple at sunrise; from night owls to early birds, traditionalists to modernists, the choral afictionado to the newcomer... As over 85 choirs from Mallow to Moscow brought the very best vocal music from across the world to every corner of Cork city and county for five days over the May bank holiday weekend. Click here to see the festival in pictures.
Applications now open for the 2010 Festival
As one of Europe’s premier choral festivals and now going into its 56th year, the Cork International Choral Festival has long been attracting choirs from all over the world to attend, either in a competitive capacity as part of the prestigious Fleischmann International Trophy Competition, or to participate non-competitively. The national applications will be opening in September.
Next year’s festival takes place from April 28th to May 2nd 2010 and we are keen to yet again attract overseas choirs to join us to take part in this celebration of choral music. Cork welcomes choirs from across the world for a programme of choral concerts, national and international competition, and internationally renowned performances as thousands of participants bring the city to life for five days in May. For visiting choirs, Cork provides an opportunity not only to perform; but also to experience some of the world’s best choral music, soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the mingling, singing and fun of the festival club, and explore the vibrant city of Cork. Read more...
Fleischmann Centenary 2010
2010 marks the centenary of the birth of Aloys Fleischmann - Irish composer, scholar, campaigner, organiser, conductor, professor of music and Freeman of the City of Cork. The prestigious international competition of the Cork International Choral Festival is named in Fleischmann’s honour.
Celebrations next year will include concerts and recitals, exhibitions, dance performances, broadcasts, conferences, public lectures, and a number of publications. The town of Dachau in Bavaria, from which the Fleischmann family came to Cork 130 years ago, will also celebrate its emigrant musician family. Read more...
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