...the PH World's Top Choir

19 PHL choirs make it to list of 1,000 best choirs in the world

 

October 17, 2012

GMA News

 

 

Nineteen Filipino choirs made it to the international group Interkultur's list of top 1,000 choirs around the world.

 

According to its official website, Interkultur is a group that aims to bring together people from different countries through music.

 

 

The Philippine choirs that made it to the top 1,000 list are:
 

46. Kilyawan Boys Choir
 

77. Mandaue Children's Choir
 

93. The Himig Singers
 

101. Miriam College High School Glee Club
 

109. Kammerchor Manila
 

109. University of the Philippines Manila Chorale
 

124. Las Piñas Boys Choir
 

157. Samiweng Singers (Ilocos Norte National High School)
 

185. Calasiao Children's Chorus
 

209. Coro San Benildo
 

221. Manila Chamber Singers
 

228. Young Voices of the Adventist University of the Philippines
 

497. St. Benedict Children’s Choir
 

593. Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School Chorale
 

733. First Asia Minstrels
 

785. San Pascual Baylon Chamber Singers
 

785. Zamboanga Hermosa Chorale
 

920. Vox Viri
 

921. The Aquinas University of Legaspi Chorale

The world rankings are based on the following categories:

• Children’s and Youth Choirs
• Mixed Choirs
• Female Choirs
• Male Choirs
• Chamber Choirs and Vocal Ensembles
• Sacred Music
• Pop, Jazz, Gospel
• Folklore

For over 20 years, Interkultur has been holding world-class competitions that have been recognized as the most innovative events in the global choral scene.

The competitions strictly comply with standards of the "Musica Mundi," a group dedicated to arranging high calibre musical festivals and custom concert tours for musical ensembles worldwide.

The Musica Mundi website said it has "a reputation for providing a truly international world-class children's chorus festival has grown to become the standard by which all other festivals are measured."


World choir games

Meanwhile, in a news release sent to GMA News Online by Irvinne Redor, the official representative of the Interkultur event series in the Philippines, the following choirs participated in the recently concluded World Choir Games 2012 in Cincinnati (Ohio) in the United States last July:

• Miriam College High School Glee Club
• Category 3: Youth Choirs of Equal Voices - Category Winner (GOLD IV Diploma)
• Category 13: Musica Sacra - Category Winner (GOLD V Diploma)
• Philippine Kammerata Singers
• Category 7: Mixed Chamber Choirs - SILVER II Diploma
• Category 14: Music of the Religions - SILVER IV Diploma
• Samiweng Singers
• Category 13: Musica Sacra - SILVER MEDAL
• Category 3: Youth Choirs of Equal Voices - SILVER X Diploma
• Category 21: Folklore - Category Winner (GOLD IV Diploma)
• Zamboanga Hermosa Chorale
• Category 7: Mixed Chamber Choirs - SILVER IX Diploma
• Category 15: Musica Contemporanea - BRONZE IX Diploma
• Category 18: Spiritual - SILVER III Diploma
• Vox Viri
• Category 11: Male Chamber Choirs - SILVER MEDAL
• Category 15: Musica Contemporanea - SILVER MEDAL

Upcoming Interkultur events

Redor also said the Philippine choirs competing in two upcoming Interkultur events are:

1st Xinghai Prize International Choir Championships
(Guangzhou, Canton, China)

8-14 November 2012

• Calasiao Children's Chorus
• Coro San Benildo
• Novo Concertante Manila
• Muntinlupa Science High School Chorale
• Tarlac State University Chamber Choir, and
• Lipa Choral Ensemble
  

2nd Vietnam International Choir Competition
(Huế, Vietnam)

12-16 December 2012

• Adventist Glee
• Centro Escolar University Singers
• Department of Justice Chorale
• Iriga City Singing Ambassadors
• Mapua Cardinal Singers, and
• Saint Paul College Pasig High School Chorale

- Andrei Medina, VVP, GMA News