The World Choir Games recently wrapped up in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a reported 15,000 people attending and participating in the massive festival and competition that featured over 200 events. Gold medalists in the 22 competitive categories, and just a fraction of the winners, include:
- Young children’s choirs: Wenzhou Children Art School Boys Choir (China).
- Children’s choirs: Vocalista Angels (Indonesia).
- Youth choirs of equal voices: Guangdong Experimental Middle School Choir (China).
- Young male choirs: Diocesan Boys’ School Choir (China/Hong Kong).
- Mixed youth choirs: The “8 Seconds” Mixed Chorus of Hangzhou Normal University (China).
- Mixed chamber choirs: The Sunday Night Singers (U.S.).
- Mixed choirs: Stellenbosch University Choir (South Africa).
- Female chamber choirs: Latvian Voices (Latvia).
- Female choirs: Shanghai Conservatory of Music Girls Choir (China).
- Male choirs: Mannerstimmen Basel (Switzerland).
- Male chamber choir: Newman Sound Men’s Choir (Canada).
- Musica sacra: Stellenbosch University Choir (South Africa).
- Music of religions: Stellenberg Girls Choir (South Africa).
- Musica contemporanea: Stellenberg Girls Choir (South Africa).
- Jazz: Dekoor Close Harmony (Netherlands).
- Gospel: Jeremy Winston Chorale (U.S.).
- Spiritual: Aeolians of Oakwood University (U.S.).
- Barbershop: Greater Harrisburg chapter Sweet Adelines (U.S.).
- Popular choral music: Dekoor Close Harmony (Netherlands).
- Folklore: Ninos Cantores de la Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil y Camerata Larense (Venezuela).
- Scenic folklore: Kearsney College Choir (South Africa).
- Show choirs: Choraliers (U.S.).
The next World Choir Games will take place in Latvia in 2014.
Learn more at www.interkultur.com/world-choir-games/.
