International cooperation

European Grand Prix for Choral Singing Association.

Created in 1988 on the iniciative of competitions Concorso Polifonico Guido d’Arezzo – Arezzo, Italy, Bela Bartok International Choral Competition Debrecen, Hungary, C. A. Seghizzi Gorizia, Italy, Florilege Vocal de Tours, France. In the following two years competitions G. Dimitrov May Choir Competition in Varna, Bulgaria and Certamen Coral de Tolosa, Basque Country, Spain, joined the Association. In 2008 Maribor was acceped as the new member and the competition Gorizia is no longer taking part in the Association.Each year the winners of 6 competitions from the previous year compete at the finals for the EGP Award. The winner of Maribor 2011 will participate at the finals 2012 held in Maribor again – in that year the city will become the European City of Culture.

http://www.gpeuropa.org/

CFN - Choral Festival Network

The international network for choral competitions and festivals who stand for:

• fairness and transparency
• information
• communication
• mutual advertising
• international exchange

CFN is a network of qualified International festivals and competitions, which want to give fair and transparent participants’ conditions to choirs and individuals.
CFN is a working network – the CFN database provides interesting information on competitions and festivals worldwide to everybody

CFN is a working tool for the daily work of festival directors and –organizers and choral conductors who like to join festivals and competitions

http://www.choralfestivalnetwork.org/

Affiliated Festival: World Youth and Children’s Choir Festival – Hong Kong

The Festival aims to promote choral exchange activities and to nurture singers' and conductors' exposure through meeting well-known choirs in Hong Kong. Apart from competitions and concerts, there are master classes, choral workshops and clinics conducted by world renowned choral music experts.

http://www.hktreblechoir.com/hkiyccf/about/