Ireland Sings - join Rollo Dilworth in 2015 - Dublin and Belfast

Friends

I have chosen Ireland for my 2015 International Festival.

This land of magic, whimsy and history celebrates culture as a core of society’s spirit. We will immerse ourselves in this spirit as we share the music of both lands with warm audiences in Dublin and Belfast. We will stage combined concerts (on July 3 and 4) and present your wonderful individual performances as well.

International festivals are unique ways for singers to take the world stage, to sing in commanding venues in combined settings and to present their own gifts and talents in local concerts.

Let’s join the leprechauns and together, search for a four leaf clover!

Please be in touch with my friends at KIconcerts for customized proposals. We will all be at the ACDA Western Division for those of you attending and wanting more information on the festival.

I hope to see you in Ireland

Rollo Dilworth

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Custom tours & the World's finest band festival & event invitations

MID EUROPE WIND BAND FESTIVAL – SCHLADMING

MID JULY: This is one of Europe’s premier band festivals – North American bands are especially welcome and well received.

INTERNATIONAL WIND BAND COMPETITION VALENCIA 

MID JULY: Valencia is the epicenter of bands in Southern Europe. This festival is a joyous celebration of the Wind Band genre.

RASTEDER MUSIKTAGE GERMANY 

EARLY JULY: Concert bands, show bands and marching bands from about 10 countries come together in Rasteder every year. 

COSTA RICA BAND FESTIVAL 

JULY: Dr. Matthew George combines the best of North America’s band tradition with bands in Costa Rica to create the Costa Rica Band Festival. 

ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE 

MARCH: Parade through the streets of Dublin and be an ambassador for your community and country. 

SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW 

EASTER: Concert bands and marching bands especially welcome to this massive county state fair that attracts millions to Sydney. 

UK BAND FESTIVAL 

AROUND EASTER: Be invited as a feature ensemble in the leading band competition held annually in the United Kingdom. 

SHANGHAI CONCERT BAND & MARCHING BAND FESTIVAL 

APRIL/MAY: Shanghai invites great bands from a number of countries to feature in their annual festival of bands – alternating years for concert bands and marching bands. 

PRE OLYMPIC RIO BAND FESTIVAL 

2016: Join Dr. Glenn D. Price in the third of his pre-Olympic band festivals this time in the 2016 Olympic city of Rio. 

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Sing in Barcelona with Z. Randall Stroope on New Year's Day, 2015

I was pleased to be invited to lead next year's choral festival in Barcelona. Oliver from KIconcerts has shared some images of the Barcelona choral festival that Craig Hella Johnson just finished conducting last week at this New Year's festival. 

Barcelona was balmy while they were there this year with daytime temperatures in the 50's. It is a truly great city in many ways not least of which is the stunning Gaudi architecture. We also hope to sing in his magnificent Sagrada Familia. 

I hope you might consider joining the 2014/2015 New Year festival with me in Barcelona for an amazing musical, historical and touring experience. If you are planning further ahead, it is proposed I lead the 2015/16 New Year Festival in Athens, Greece. 

Z Randall Stroope
Artistic Director & Conductor 

Contact my friends at KIconcerts for tour details.

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2015 World Expo Milan - Ticheli, Kunkel headlining performance options!

KI announces unique performance options in association with the 2015 World Expo being staged in Milan, Italy. The World Expo is held every 5 years in great international cities. It is a joyous celebration of the best of all nations: Planning is underway to entertain 29 million people, animate the 217 acre site, populate numerous stages and honor national pavilions through culture and performance.

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Custom Expo Concert Tour Options May through October 2015

Concert bands, marching bands, orchestras especially welcome. Perform in Milan, at the Expo and in Rome, tour Florence and celebrate the best that Italy has to offer.

Ticheli Expo Band Showcase late June 2015

Join Frank Ticheli as he returns to the land of his ancestors to present fine North American bands in this great showcase of talent, music, composition and goodwill.

Kunkel Expo Jazz Showcase late June 2015

Perform alongside Jeff Kunkel as he presents American talent at the Jazz Showcase being staged in association with the 2015 World Expo in Milan.

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Consider joining us in Italy for these special instrumental performance opportunities. KI also offers great custom tours and other festivals/competitions around the world.

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Passion of Italy - Henry Leck Choral Festival - summer 2015

Your invitation to perform in Italy!

I hope you might be in a position to consider this invitation to perform with me in Rome in late June/early July 2015.

Join with other fine young choirs as we meet in Rome to rehearse and then perform both individually and as a festival choir singing Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica and in the festival gala concert. For those that wish it, travel with me to Tuscany for a further gala concert in Florence.

I am drawn once again to Italy, the land of the renaissance, of awe inspiring venues and the origin of so much of our music. The food, the extraordinary power of Rome, the endless Tuscan vistas, the thrill of Florence, …this is the tapestry upon which we weave our performances

Henry Leck

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♪ Italy’s Notes of Joy Festival – Rome, June 2015

An invitation to sing in the 

Rome Choir Festival!

When I was 16 years old, I had the privilege of traveling with my high school choral and instrumental ensembles to France, England and Ireland. It was a remarkable and life-changing journey.

Because of that opportunity in my youth, I learned to appreciate other cultures, to absorb the historic beauty of European cities and countryside, to make life-long friendships and to create music beyond anything I had ever experienced.

In part this is why I have accepted the invitation to lead the Notes of Joy festival - hoping to help make the same kind of opportunity available to other singers. Perhaps there is no-where better in the world to take our music than to Italy - the source of so much of our music and inspiration.

Traveling to Italy enables you to sing in glorious centuries-old cathedrals, see magnificent frescos by Michelangelo, savor the aromas of authentic Italian food, and hear the Italian language spoken - the operatic language of so many Verdi, Puccini and Mozart operas.

Join me in creating music and memories that will stay with you for a lifetime

Gregory Gentry

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Choral Odyssey Greece June 2015 with Anna Hamre

An invitation to Choral Odyssey Greece!

Join us on our choral odyssey to the land of Homer and Euripides. Explore the land of Zeus, Apollo, and the other Olympian gods. View the structural perfection that defines the Parthenon. Imagine the ancient Colossus presiding over the harbor at Rhodes.

Greece is the culture that formed our understandings of democracy and our notions of civilization. Enjoy the beauty and cuisine of the Mediterranean while we explore the city of Plato and Aristotle. As we visit Delphi, recall the troubled warriors who journeyed there to consult the oracles. Wander with us as we evoke the words of the great Socrates, who said, “Wisdom begins in wonder.”

Artists remember that Greece is the home of the Muses: writers continually search for their muses, travelers visit museums, and those with free time amuse themselves. We will make music in the land of Orpheus!

Join us in Athens and on the Greek Islands Cruise in June, 2015!

Anna Hamre

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