An invitation from Joshua Habermann: Italy 2014

Rome, Italy - St Peter's Basilica

I’d like to invite you to consider joining the Passion of Italy Festival I am leading in summer 2014. The festival will bring together fine singers from around the U.S. to perform in Rome, a city steeped in ancient history, and home to such sights as the Colosseum, one of the architectural wonders of the world.

We invite full ensembles or groups of singers (and their friends) to join us. In addition to singing for mass at St. Peter’s Basilica and a combined gala concert, choirs will also have the opportunity to give individual concerts, and even to expand their tour to such cities as Florence or Venice.

I will craft a program that is especially suited to the American choirs that will form the festival choir, and acoustically tailored to the glorious spaces in which we will perform. I know this will be a joyous celebration of the power of singing together, and I invite you to be in contact with KIconcerts for more information.

I hope to have the opportunity to explore glorious Rome together with you!

Kind regards,
Joshua Habermann

Berlin with John Dickson - June 2014

Berliner Dom

In June 2014 I will lead a choral festival in central Europe and invite you to consider joining me.

Our individual performances and gala concert will be staged at the Berlin Dom with other concert opportunities for those that seek them in Berlin and in Prague.

Perhaps the opportunity for international travel and music-making has shaped my life as a professional musician as much as any other experience. Seeing the world through other cultures and singing in some of the globe’s great venues are life-changing experiences, whatever your path in life.

Bring your full or touring choir if you can – or bring singers to join in the combined performances if the full choir is not able to come with us.

I hope you will consider singing with me while we explore Europe.

John Dickson

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2014 Bavarian Youth Choral Festival

Dear friends

My musical colleagues in Southern Germany have invited U.S. choirs to return to Bavaria for an outstanding youth choral symposium in June 2014.

The Bavarian Invitational Youth Choral Festival will again be hosted by the historic village of Altötting and singers from Maria Ward Schule. The symposium features the study and performance of works by the major composers of this culturally rich region - Mozart, Schubert, Bruckner and Haydn!

You are invited to join other U.S. High School, Collegiate and Community Choirs and scholars from the Hochshule für Musik und Theater München (University of Music and Performing Arts Munich) and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg (the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum Salzburg) as we immerse ourselves in the works and lives of these famed composers.

The visiting choirs and host choir will join with the festival orchestra to learn and perform a representative work from the repertory of each master. The festival will culminate in a gala concert in Altötting and feature tour extensions to the concert halls and churches where these pieces were originally performed!

I am pleased to share this invitation to Altötting…to Bavaria…and to the Bavarian Invitational Youth Choral Festival with you.

Dr. Kevin Meidl

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The Bavarian Invitational Youth Choral Festival was created in 2008 as a choral symposium for American conductors interested in a distinctive experience for their singers…one that is able to provide a deeper exploration of Europe’s foremost composers. Alötting is ideally located to host the festival as it rests directly between Munich, Passau and Salzburg…and is only a short drive to such major destinations as Prague, Budapest and Vienna. Altötting is home to the renowned Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of Grace- the most visited shrine in Germany) and the final resting place for the heart of each Bavarian king including “mad” King Ludwig II.

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Craig Hella Johnson – Barcelona Festival – from December 27, 2013

Park Güell, Barcelona

Año Nuevo Festival in Barcelona

December 27, 2013 to January 4, 2014
with Craig Hella Johnson

• Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Spain
• Combined rehearsals and gala concert
• Individual concerts
• Cultural touring
• Explore the city of Columbus and Gaudi in Catalonia’s capital city
• Work with the immensely talented Craig Hella Johnson

We welcome your full ensemble or 20+ interested performers and accompanying passengers (1 complimentary package for every 20).

This is a truly unique experience in a city of compelling culture with one of America’s great conductors.

Join us

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♫ World Choir Games – Riga, July 2014

Riga, Latvia - Central Square

A number of our ensembles have asked for information about a concert tour that incorporated the 2014 World Choir Games in Riga next year.

We have created a concert program with Tallinn and Helsinki or St Petersburg as pre/post festival options.

Riga has been declared the 2014 European Capital of Culture in recognition of its rich and long unique cultural history.

Join us in Northern Europe for concert tours featuring the 2014 World Choir Games. 

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This week at KI - 20 December 2012

This week at KIconcerts

• attended the Midwest Clinic for Bands and Orchestras in Chicago to catch up with many Directors planning their next international concert tours
• finalized arrangements for groups traveling between Christmas and New Year including singing Mass at St Peter's Basilica, Rome and singing at Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
• finalized arrangements for the January performance tour of India
• developed new concert opportunities in South America, principally Peru and Argentina.

We watched in horror as the tragic events in Newtown, CT unfolded and never felt prouder of our colleagues in education and youth music!

Happy holidays and may there be peace in abundance for humanity to share in 2013

St Peter's Basilica - Rome, Italy & Sagrada Familia - Barcelona, Spain

This Week at KI - 1 December 2012

We know it has been another busy week for our Directors, especially those with choral programs as they stage their holiday season concerts.

At KI we focused on:

• Visits to Minneapolis and through Wisconsin to meet choral and instrumental directors
• Hosting our Indian partner for a meeting with the University of St. Thomas Wind Symphony as they prepare for their January concert tour of India
• Building interest in the Bavarian Youth Music Festival
• Confirming the Southern Connecticut State University choir’s attendance at the Craig Hella Johnson Barcelona Festival, New Year’s 2013
• Publicizing the USA Australia Band Festival being held on the West Coast in 2014

And we celebrated the news of the impending birth of a baby boy to one of our great Italian partners.