World Symposium on Choral Music, Auckland, New Zealand, 11-18 July 2020

May 31

Published: May 31,2019

WSCM2020 Artistic Director, John Rosser, shares behind-the-scenes choral festival experiences

Part of organising a significant and world-class choral festival like the 12^th World Symposium on Choral Music is making sure a significant number of people come from all over the world to enjoy it. So, for the past two years, the small but perfectly-formed WSCM2020 team has been travelling the globe to meet those people and tell them why they cannot afford to miss it! (Seriously... don't miss it!)

Following the ‘acceptance of the torch’ at the 2017 Barcelona Symposium, the team travelled to Beijing in 2018 for the truly massive 14th China International Chorus Festival and immediately afterwards to Estonia for ECA-EC’s magical Europa Cantat in Tallinn. This year has already added many more frequent-flyer miles to the tally, through important trips to another two substantial choral communities: the USA and Australia.

In late February, the WSCM2020 team attended the American Choral Directors Association National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. It is hard to convey just how large and all-encompassing this event is, but you get a sense of it in the gigantic exhibition hall, where the WSCM stall was one of over 200, each stall ‘telling a story’....

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