Songs by Agnieszka Osiecka and Mrozu performed by the Mundus Cantat Choir, performances by choirs from Norway, Ukraine and Great Britain – this musical feast awaits the Tri-City audience as part of Gdańsk Concerts Accompanying the 14th edition of the International Choir Festival "Mundus Cantat " 2018.
A series of Gdańsk Accompanying Concerts, which are part of the International Choir Festival "Mundus Cantat" 2018, will start on April 21, 2018. The Mundus Cantat Festival Choir invites you to the Osiedlowy Dom Kultury (Cultural Center) at 5.00 p.m. for the concert titled "Osiecka for choir and other hits of popular music". The repertoire of the ensemble will include the most popular songs by Agnieszka Osiecka and contemporary hits known from the radio, such as We have nothing to lose by Mrozu and Sound'n'Grace, or Starboy by The Weekend.
If someone will not be able to attend this concert, another chance to hear Mundus Cantat in a similar repertoire will apear on April 28 at the Old Town Hall (7.00 p.m.), where they will perform together with the Kor Som Helst choir from Kristiansand (Norway). Our guests from far-away Norway will present folk songs from the far North as well as jazz ballads. During the concert, donations will be collected on behalf of the Foundation for Magdalena Piorunek. She has been struggling with a serious illness since her birth – Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA type 1 Werdnig-Hoffmann).
On July 14 at 7.00 pm in the Oliwa City Hall of Culture you will be able to hear the performance of the Choir of the School for Girls from Bruton (Great Britain). The program of the concert will include religious and classical music. GKT will end the concert of Colombian tenor Juan Felipe Alvarado, who will perform on September 21 in the "Piastuś" Community Center of Culture and present a Latin American boleros about people, their temperament and feelings.
The project also includes choral workshops: "Choir – musical activation through social reintegration" and "You can take the floor", addressed to young people gathered at the OHP Youth Education Center in Gdańsk. Workshop participants – young people requiring special attention – learn about the correct voice emission, take part in vocal activities, and even work on the repertoire that will be performed during the important ceremony of the institution.
The organizers of Gdańsk Accompanying Concerts are the City of Gdańsk and the Mundus Cantat Foundation and the co-organizers are the Baltic Sea Cultural Center and the Gdańsk Community. The project was co-financed by the city of Gdańsk. Admission to all concerts is free.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
DOWNLOAD: Event programme.