N. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University

Youth Center of music art «Gaudeamus»

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

about XIV International festival «Young Voices-2012» in

Nizhny Novgorod city, 26-29 April, 2012

 

1. Tasks and goals of the festival:

   -  Familiarization of young people to the art heritage of Russian and foreign peoples

   -  Improvement of masterly performance of choir collectives

   -  Experience exchange in area of cultural and humanitarian education

   -  Extension and strengthening of professional and cultural connections between creative choir collectives

   -  Growth of Nizhny Novgorod prestige as the Russian cultural center

   -  Choir collectives’ performances, master-classes of leading choir conductors, creative conductors’ conference and gala-concert are supposed to be organized in the festival bounds

 

2. Festival founders

The Festival founders are:

   -  Nikolay Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University

   -  Youth Center of music art «Gaudeamus»

Founders have the right to spread information about tasks, goals and Festival programme and to advertise their own activity during the festival events.

Founders form organizing committee and creative committee of the Festival.

 

3. Festival organizing committee:

Co-chairman of organizing committee:

E. Chuprunov – chancellor of Nikolay Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University

 

Organizing committee members:

R. Strongin – president of N. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University (NNSU further)

A. Petrov – first vice-chancellor of NNSU

V. Saygin – vice-chancellor of NNSU

O. Kotova – head of the NNSU students’ creative center

 

 

4.  Festival partners

Festival partners could be juridical or natural person who contributed a donation in money or any other form for festival events organizing.

Informational partner of the Festival is a registered mass media effecting the Festival and its events media coverage by available resources with mandatory presentation of basic Festival partners

 

 

5. Festival art rules

 

The next student choirs’ categories have the right to participate in the festival

-Mixed choirs (training and amateur)

-Male choirs (training and amateur)

-Female choirs (training and amateur)

The festival program of the each choir performance should not exceed 20 minutes of pure sounding (without entrance to scene and applause) and should contain minimum 50% of a cappella music.

The program could be selected free, but should be agreed with the art director of the festival until 15th of March, 2012.

The program for the festival gala-concert should contain 1 or 2 pieces of a cappella music by duration not more than 7 minutes in total.

It is needed to provide 5 copies of note scores of the choir festival program before the performance for the creative committee. One copy will not be returned.

 

6. Creative board of the Festival

 

- Honoured Art Worker of Russian Federation, People’s Artist of Russia, the chancellor of Mikhail

 Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire, professor of choir conducting department, composer, conductor –

Eduard Fertelmeister  (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

 

- Honoured Art Worker of Russian Federation, professor of Mikhail Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire, art director of the choir school “Zhavoronok”, conductor –

Anatoly  Ezhov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

 

- Honoured Art Worker of Russian Federation, professor of Mikhail Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire, head of choral conducting department –

Viktor Kurzhavsky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

 

7. General festival participation conditions

 

The application form should contain the next documents :

A.  Detailed filled Application Form (Application form is attached);

B.  Brief biography of the choir and its main conductor;

C.  High-quality pictures of the choir (not older than 2 years ago) and its conductor, for the festival booklet (min. resolution is 300 dpi if e-mailing data).

The documents shall be sent to atsareg@mera.ru.

The last day of Application form sending to the festival Organizing committee postal address is 1st of February, 2012. All the questions regarding the documents shall be addressed to +79043931953 (Alexey Tsaregorodtsev).

On the 15th of February, 2012 the organizing committee will approve the participants list and send the official invitation for participation.

 

8. Festival financial terms

Financing is to be realized basing on approved by organizing committee budget at the expense of funds provided by founders, organizational contributions of the Festival participants and also the Festival partners donations and charitable contributions.

For every choir collective the organizational contribution is set at the rate of 100 EUR for a choir collective’s participant (includes accommodation from 12:00 of 26th of April till 12:00 of 29th of April, meals (3 breakfasts and 3 lunches), coach transfers, souvenirs, halls providing for choir acoustic rehearsals, entrance tickets to the festival events). It should be transferred to the “Gaudeamus” foundation’s account until 15th of March, 2012.

 

Beneficiary’s account No 40703978600291000020

JOINT STOCK INVESTMENT COMMERCIAL BANK FOR INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD AND THE REGION
Correspondent bank: COMMERZBANK A.G., 32-36 Neue Mainzer Strasse, Frankfurt am Main, 60261, Germany
Account No 400 8868150 01 EUR

S.W.I.F.T.: COBADEFF

Beneficiary’s bank: NIZHEGORODPROMSTROYBANK, 21, Gruzinskaya street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

S.W.I.F.T: NIZH RU 2N

 

ATTENTION: if paying from abroad it’s necessary to contact the organizing committee via e-mail: atsareg@mera.ru to get the payment processed successfully.

 

Travelling costs of the collective are to be paid by the participant’s organization.

 

9. Address and contacts of the Festival direction

 

Postal address:

Nikolay Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod University

23, Gagarina avenue, building 2, room 321

603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation

Tel/Fax: +7(831) 4623773

 

 

Chief of the festival – Olga Kotova

Tel/Fax:  +7 (831) 4623773

kotovolga@yandex.ru

cell phone: +7 9519016020

 

 

Art director of the festival – Larisa Erykalova

å-mail: Larisa.Erikalova@mail.ru

cell phone: + 7 9519095620

 

FESTIVAL SITE

 http://www.youngvoices.chorus-nnsu.ru/

 

E-mail for the application forms:

atsareg@mera.ru