About the Festival ...

Introduction

The International Male Choirs Festival (Trobada Internacional de Cors d'Homes - TICH) it's an initiative of the a Federació de Cors de Clavé, which is calling now for the third edition (the festival it's being celebrated every five years) male choirs from all over the world to take part on the festival. The goals of the festival are to work along with international choirs, keep contact with them, discuss and promote the choral movement, as well as let them enjoy of the different cultures that are being represented on the festival around Catalonia. The first edition - on 2005 – was a complete success in every single concert that took place, as well as the quality of the international choirs. Besides of that, the social role of the festival was proudly reached, creating a link between the international, local choirs and their audiences.
For this edition, we are inviting up to five male choirs, they will discover our land, Catalonia, sing in different cities and towns, and sing all together in a marvellous venue, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the palace of catalan music.

Round table

As stated on the first edition, there will be an academic event, a round table, where the 5 choir conductors, univeristy teachers and choral music experts will discuss about the male choirs today, repertoires ... An abstract from the pasts editions can be found in http://www.malechoirs.cat/

Who is organizing the festival?

The Federació de Cors de Clavé (FCC) is the oldest choral association in Spain and Portugal, with more than 165 associated choirs all over the catalan culture region. We are giving to those choirs administrative, educational, musical and legal assistance to the choir singers and their music directors.
The FCC is also member of the Moviment Coral Català, member and co-fundator of the Festival Europa Cantat XV Barcelona 2003 and member of the Federation International of Choral Music.
Itself include mixed choirs, youths, infants, womens and the most representative, the men choirs. This Federation has the name of the founer, Josep Anselm Clavé, a important person in the Catalan history from the XIXth century, he also was the founder of the 1st men's choirs of Iberian peninsule. Due this reason,the FCC has an important paper in the social and cultural life in our country.

When and where will it take place?

The festival will take place from the 3th to the 8th of July, 2011, both days included. We do require the international choirs to arrive one day before the festival begins.
Each choir will perfom 3 local concerts, some of them will be in medium size towns or in small villages. For those concerts, the scenario is usually a romanic church, local theater or a social meeting point. Each of those concerts has usually a "welcome performance" of a local choir. You can find below a location map of the cities and towns which welcomed our choirs on the pasts editions.
On the 4th of July 2011, the 5 international choirs will perform on a marvellous venue, the Palace of Catalan Music (El Palau de la Música Catalana) probably the best concert hall in Barcelona, a modernist building with a wonderful sound. This concert will have an audience of up to 2.000 people. Since we are a non profit organization, all our concerts are free.
The international choirs, accommodated in a hotel in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, will also have a guided tour and visit some of our cultural highlights.

Where took the lasts editions places?

The pasts editions took places in 19+16 catalan locations:

2005 year: Barcelona, Berga, Cabrils, Castellar del Vallès, Castelldefels, Cubelles, Figueres, Gavà, Gelida, Juneda, La Garriga, Malgrat de Mar, Palau Solità i Plegamans, Premià de Mar, Tàrrega, Sabadell, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Viladecans and Vilafranca del Penedès.

2008 year: Barcelona, Berga, Castellar del Vallès, Castelldefels, Cubelles, Figueras, Gavà, Gelida, Juneda, La Garriga, Malgrat de Mar, Palau Solità i Plegamans, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Viladecans, Vilafranca del Penedès and Vila-seca.