Kantor Pos
Enchanting Songs
22, 23, 25 and 26 December 2018
Show
ENCHANTING SINGING
Date
22 December 2018
23 December 2018
25 December 2018
26 December 2018
Theatre
St Bavo's church Aardenburg
Beauforthuis Oosterkerk - Zeist
Zuiderstrandtheater The Hague
De Gelderlandfabriek Culemburg
ENCHANTING SINGING
Credo Kiev Choir
It is not just a concert but a dynamic and moving performance of old, new music.
From Tchaikovsky through Rachmaninov, Part to arranged folk songs with instruments and Ukrainian spiritual compositions.
Pristine, enchanting, sacred choral singing from the Ukraine, rooted in Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine history.
The Kiev Choir Credo was founded in April, 2002. All singers of the choir are professional musicians. The conductor of the choir is the winner of the Grand Prix of the III Ukrainian competition for choral conductors, the chief conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine named after T.Shevchenko (since 2013) - Bogdan Plish.
From its inception, Credo has managed to attract the attention of a wide range of music fans and receives rave reviews from some of the country's most influential musicians and abroad. The choir's repertoire consists of a cappella music from the 16th-21stecentury, folk music and pieces of the cantata oratorio genre, performed in collaboration with the best orchestras in the country. While performing sacred music, these choral artists strive for the highest artistic unity in which warmth and spirituality are central. As a result, the choir creates a unique style of performance.
In 2005-2017, Credo toured Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, France and Hungary. The choir won the XXIV International Competition of Sacred Music 'Hainuwka-2005 "(Poland), took the Grand Prix of the 44th International Choir Competition in Tolosa (Spain), became a finalist of the 2013 European Grand Prix in choral singing (Arezzo, Italy).
