Wernigerode, the colorful town at the foot of the Harz Mountains, hosted one of the most attractive MUSICA MUNDI competitions —— the 5th International Johannes Brahms Choir Festival & Competition. Between July 18 and 22, the scenic town with its half-timbered architecture offered one of its beautiful market squares in Germany as the ideal background for this festival.
Over five days, with choirs from 45 representative teams in 20 countries, including Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, South Korea and etc, around 1,500 participants staged performances and enjoyed the fabulous choir festival.
The competition featured 5 different categories:
I. With compulsory piece: Mixed Choirs, Male Choirs and Female Choirs.
II. Without compulsory piece: Mixed Choirs, Male Choirs and Female Choirs.
III. With compulsory piece: Chamber Choirs /Vocal Ensembles of Equal Voices and Chamber Choirs /Vocal Ensembles of Mixed Voices.
IV. Without compulsory piece: Children's Choirs, Youth Choirs of Equal Voices and Mixed Youth Choirs.
V. Folklore Competition of Category Winners.
Category winners had the opportunity to take part in the Competition of the Category Winners if nominated by the Jury.
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