Choir announces 2007 Middle East tour
 
The Choir of London and Orchestra will visit the Palestinian Territories and Israel between 29th March and 15th April 2007 for its most ambitious international project to date. The visit will include the following elements: PALESTINE MOZART FESTIVAL Building on the success of 2004’s collaborative Bach Festival, the 2007 Palestine Mozart Festival, will bring together more than 60 European professional musicians with close to 250 Palestinian performers and music students.  As such, it  promises to be one of the largest and most ambitious collaborative arts events ever staged in Palestine, involving  a series of large-scale gala concerts, chamber music performances, film screenings, academic lectures, and educational workshops.  Members of the Choir of London and Orchestra will also contribute to the Festival progamme the first fully-staged professional opera production ever to tour the West Bank, a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.   The Festival is being planned in conjunction with a number of locally based institutions, including the Al-Kamandjati Foundation, Nablus the Culture, and the Goethe Institute.  It will reach venues in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Hebron and Gaza over the course of a two-week period (31st March - 14th April 2007), with an anticipated total local audience of over 2500 people.   Click here to be redirected to the Palestine Mozart Festival website. For full concert listings, see the Performance Page. COLLABORATION WITH SAWA AND EFRONI CHOIRS The Sawa Choir is composed of Palestinian girls from the Galilee region in northern Israel; the Efroni Choir a Jewish children’s ensemble based in Emek Hefer. The Choir of London has enjoyed a close relationship with both groups since its first visit to the region in 2004, and is committed to ongoing support for the choirs and their long-standing partnership. As part of the Easter 2007 visit, the singers of the Sawa and Efroni choirs will sing alongside the Choir of London in choral workshops led by distinguished British choir trainer Jeremy Summerly. All three choirs will then perform in a special joint concert. For full concert listings, see the Performance Page. GALILEE WORKSHOPS The Al-Baath is an adult mixed-voice choir composed of Palestinian singers from the village of Shafa-Amr in northern Israel. Following on from a successful joint concert in May 2006, the Choir of London will return to Shafa-Amr in April 2007 for a series of choral workshops. RECITALS IN JERUSALEM As part of its 2007 tour, the Choir of London will also perform recitals at the Dormition Abbey and the church of St Anne, two of the most remarkable venues in the Old City of Jerusalem. For full concert listings, see the Performance Page. ../Recent%20Projects/C527EE50-745B-4C5C-A06E-61FF0D05E099.htmlhttp://www.palestinemusicfestivals.orghttp://www.palestinemusicfestivals.org/../Performances.html../Recent%20Projects/C527EE50-745B-4C5C-A06E-61FF0D05E099.html../Performances.html../Performances.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6
Posted: Monday, 27 November 2006