Stream

1 August 2024 (Thursday), 7 pm

Opening Ceremony (Doors open at cca. 6.45 pm )
Reformed Great Church of Debrecen

2 August 2024 (Friday), 2 pm

Free Category B & A
Kölcsey Centre, Ballroom

  • 14.00-14.20 Ensemble Coraux
    • Lorenzo Donati: Travestimento primo
    • Eric Whitacre: This marriage
    • Giuseppe Cappotto: Danse Valdotaine
  • 14.20-14.45 Cor Jove Amics de la Unió
    • G. Cruz i. C Perez arr Ll. Perez Cansell: Vestida de nit
    • Guido Lopez-Gavilan: El guayaboso
    • Levente Gyöngyösi: Cantate Domino
    • Jake Runestad: Nyon nyon
  • 14.45-15.10 Imusicapella
    • Levente Gyöngyösi: Cantate Domino
    • Gunnar Hahn: Rondo Lapponico
    • Jonas Tamulionis: Narciso
    • Nilo Alcala: Dayo Dayo Kupita
  • 15.10-15.35 Arcova Vocal Ensemble
    • Levente Gyöngyösi: Cantate Domino
    • Lorenzo Donati: Mignonne
    • Kim André Arnesen: Even when He is silent
    • Petrassi: Nonsense n. 5.
  • 15.35-16.00 Los Cantantes de Manila
    • Levente Gyöngyösi: Cantate Domino
    • arr. Earl James Conde: Rosas Pandan
    • Giampiero Castagna: Miserere
    • Guido Lopez-Gavilan: Pa Kin Kin

2 August 2024 (Friday), 7 pm

‘Vivat, crescat, floreat!’ – Gala concert of the Béla Bartók International Choir Competition
Kölcsey Centre, Great Hall

Programme:

  • Máté Bella: Vivat, crescat, floreat!
  • Árpád Barabás: Dinos and menk – world premiere
  • Zoltán Kodály: Whitsuntide (soloists: Panna Demeter, Mária Hajós)
  • Bence Kutrik: Puer natus (solo: József Balog)
  • Dániel Dobos: Callis stellarum – world premiere (solo: Tünde Győrfiné Hovancsek)
  • Lajos Bárdos: Cantemus!

Lautitia Children’s Choir (choirmaster: József Nemes), Kodály Choir (choirmaster: Kocsis-Holper Zoltán);
Conductors: József Nemes and Zoltán Kocsis-Holper

– intermission –

  • Péter Tóth: The Wedding – world premiere

Gabriella Balga (soprano)
Kodály Choir (choirmaster: Kocsis-Holper Zoltán), Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra;
Conductor: Zsolt Hamar

Tickets: 500 HUF registration tickets are available here

3 August 2024 (Saturday), 10 am

Children’s & Youth Choirs Category
Kölcsey Centre, Ballroom

  • 10.00-10.15 Joint Chorus Group of Toyama High School and Toyama Higashi High School
    • Nancy Telfer: Missa Brevis – Kyrie
    • Rihards Dubra: Ave Maria II.
    • Rihards Dubra: Laudate
    • Miklós Kocsár: Salve Regina
  • 10.15-10.30 Ss. Cyril & Methodios Choir of Thessaloniki
    • arr. Alexandros Papagiannopoulos: Gianni mou to Mantolino sou – Traditional from Epirus Choral
    • arr. Akos Pap: Burro Matti
    • Kanaris Keramaris: Argyro
    • Tassos Pappas: Shepherds songs
  • 10.30-10.50 Zoltán Kodály Youth Mixed Choir
    • György Orbán: O mistress mine
    • Boglárka Vörös: Fragments – III.
    • Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
    • Z. Randall Stroope: The conversion of Saul
  • 10.50-11.10 Ad Libitum Choir (B Free)
    • Branko Stark: Plaudite manibus
    • György Orbán: Ave verum
    • Erzsébet Szőnyi: Prayer for Twilight Bell
    • Zdenek Lukas: Dies irae

3 August 2024 (Saturday), 2 pm

Sacred Music Category
St. Anne’s Cathedral of Debrecen

  • 14.00-14.20 Coro Monteverdi
    • Francis Poulenc: Quatre petites priéres de Saint Francois d’Assise – II. Tout puissant & III. Seigneur, je vous an pries
    • Brian A. Schmidt: Lux Aeterna
    • Albert de Klerk: Pater Noster
    • Orlando Dipiazza: Ecce panis angelorum
  • 14.20-14.40 Ensemble Coraux
    • James MacMillan: O radiant dawn
    • Lorenzo Donati: Salmo 23
    • Francis Poulenc: Hodie Cristus natus est
  • 14.40-15.05 Los Cantantes de Manila
    • János Vajda: Domine non sum dignus
    • Z. Randall: Stroope Petrus
    • Lorenzo Donati: O vos omnes
    • Darren Vega: Alleluia! Amen
  • 15.05-15.30 Imusicapella
    • János Vajda: Domine non sum dignus
    • Giampiero Castagna: Miserere
    • Vytautas Miskinis: Dum medium silentium
  • 15.30-15.55 Arcova Vocal Ensemble
    • Vaclovas Augustinas: Hymne à Saint Martin
    • Trond Kverno: Ave maris stella
    • János Vajda: Domine non sum dignus
    • Z. Randall Stroope: The conversion of Saul
  • 15.55-16.20 Cor Jove Amics de la Unió
    • Javier Busto Sagrado: Ave Maria
    • Eric Whitacre: Lux Nova
    • Vajda János: Domine non sum dignus
    • Xabier Sarasola: Ave Maria

4 August 2024 (Sunday), 3 pm

Grand Prize Competition and Award Ceremony
Kölcsey Centre, Great Hall

Los Cantantes de Manila

  • Darren Vega: Alleluia! Amen
  • Sydney Guillaume: Anmwe
  • Stacey Gibbs: Elijah

Cor Jove Amics de la Unió

  • arr. M. Barret & R. Schmitt: Indodana, Traditional isiXhosa
  • Guido López-Gavilán: El Guayaboso
  • Josep Ma Ruera: Sant Joan

Arcova Vocal Ensemble

  • Lorenzo Donati: Sicut cervus
  • Z. Randall Stroope: The conversion of Saul
  • Eric Whitacre: Leonardo dreams of his flying machine

Imusicapella

  • Morten Lauridsen: Ov’e, lass’, il bel viso?
  • Vytautas Miškinis: Dum Medium Silentium
  • Nilo Alcala: Sa Silong ng Langit