Maribor as part of EGP

A new era began after 2002 for the International Choral Competition Maribor: the form of the competition and its contents have settled, and foreign experts and organizers of competitions abroad have been invited to participate. Especially important were the visits of artistic and organizational directors of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing Association. For the first time in almost 20 years, they have recognized a competition that would have been suitable for membership in this prestigious association. It had met all the conditions:

  • at least five realizations of the competition,
  • quality organization,
  • non-commercial,
  • a jury of no less than five members,
  • consisting of internationally acclaimed experts,
  • competition cathegories have to be strictly defined,
  • the competition has to receive at least two recommendations from the association,
  • the competition can not take place during another association competition,
  • the competition has to be at a topmost musical level,
  • majority of the program must be performed a capella.

After a couple years of verifying the Maribor competition was admitted in 2002 as the new member of the association. The European Grand Prix for Choral Singing Association was otherwise formed in 1988 on the initiative of the competitions Concorso Polifonico Guido d'Arezzo, Arezzo, Italy, Béla Bartók International Choral Competition, Debrecen, Hungary, C. A. Seghizzi, Gorizia, Italy, and Florilège Vocal de Tours, France. The G. Dimitrov May Choir Competition, Varna, Bolgaria joined in 1989, and Certamen Coral de Tolosa, Basque Country, Spain a year later. In 2008 the Maribor competition was admitted, whereas the competition in Gorizia is no longer a member.

email: info.maribor@jskd.si, phone: +386 (1) 24 10 525 / +386 (2) 23 42 117 / +386 (1) 24 10 506