Silver Voice – festival for choirs and vocal groups

Choirs have the opportunity to apply for general performances with other choirs from different countries. Please prepare a program for about 15 minutes, which must be pre-approved by the artistic committee.

Please send an appropriate concert program to interested choirs and the selected place of performance will be clarified. Please note that in case of participation in these concerts, the participants themselves pay for their trip to the monastery (on their own bus or public transport). The organizer will be happy to assist you in preparing this trip.

The choirs that won in their category have the opportunity to take part in the struggle for the main prize. The jury reserves the right to also invite other choirs for this competition. The winner will receive grants from the International Youth Forum 2019 – to participate in grant festivals 2020/2021 “World of Youth” on Costa cruise ships or MSC or choir festival in Disneyland

• Grand Prix: 2500 Eur
• 1st place: 1500 Eur
• 2 place: 700 Eur
• 3rd place: 500 Eur

Program: two a cappella pieces for free choice that were not presented in the competition program.Works must be approved in advance by the artistic committee.

Duration: maximum 5 minutes.

The gala concert culminates in the ceremonial joint performance of Carl Orff: CARMINA BURANA, Conditions for the participation of choirs: the work must be learned and ready for performance. During the choir stays at the “Silver Voice”, rehearsals necessary for the performance will take place (one rehearsal with a choir and one rehearsal with a choir and orchestra). All interested choirs are cordially invited to participate. However, for the uniform distribution of voice parties will require confirmation of the artistic committee.

The festival organizers can prepare an invitation for the time of the event and assure your list of participants only after you fulfill the following conditions:

You have successfully registered for the event and transferred the registration fee to the International Youth Forum (IYF) account
You have booked a package of services and received confirmation
You have sent us a full list of participants (in electronic form)

Please send the list only once and try not to make any further changes in it, because this may delay visa processing. As a reserve, we recommend adding 3-4 choir members to the list in case someone from the participants of the main list refuses the trip. Immediately after you have fulfilled all the conditions, we will send you an invitation along with a certified list of participants by e-mail, if necessary send the original documents – by air mail directly to the name of your representative. He must personally apply to the embassy. Please note that if you fulfill these conditions too late, we will have to send the original invitation by express mail, which would entail additional costs (approximately EUR 100 – 300). List of participants, you can send us this document by e-mail to: info@praha-cz.net and festival@praha-cz.net

Dear friends, since visa processing usually lasts a long time, we ask you to do this as early as possible. After all, it is in your interest! In case of late submission of documents for registration, you risk getting a visa refusal! Please contact the embassy of the country conducting the competition in order to obtain more detailed information on the restrictions and rules for submitting documents that apply to you! Please also remember that you may need transit visas, depending on the country where the event is held. If you still do not have a valid passport, please issue it as soon as possible! Some countries may require an invitation to obtain a visa, and a certified list of participants of the International Youth Forum (IYF) may provide you with these documents. We can not take responsibility for processing and issuing visas. Despite this, we will be happy to support you.

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