News from Tenso Network Europe

February 2016

In this newsletter :

Call for young singers: applications now accepted!
Call for young conductors: applications now accepted!
Tenso Young Composers Award for Sebastian Androne
Tenso Professionals Meeting: Choirs in Space

Call for young singers

Tenso Europe Chamber Choir (TECC), the project choir for young professional singers, will rehearse and perform with Kaspars Putniņs in July 2016, and come together again for a short period to work with Paul Hillier in August 2016. More details on the TECC website

Join the choir! The application is open to singers (s/a/t/b) between 18 and 30 years old, studying or working in Europe. More details

Call for young conductors

In 2016 several masterclasses for conductors will be organized during Tenso Days, kicking off during Tenso Days Mechelen in May. Young conductors will be working with Daniel Reuss and other Tenso conductors. Tenso Masterclass for Conductors wants to encourage promising young conductors to take on choral music, working both on standard repertoire and on recent and contemporary pieces.

The application is open to conductors between 18 and 32 years old, studying or working in Europe. Apply now

Tenso Young Composers Award for Sebastian Androne

The second round of Tenso Young Composers Workshop, following the first round in Mechelen (BE) in May 2015, took place in Marseille (FR) last week. Sebastian Androne (RO), Sofia Borges (PT) and L�o Collin (FR) worked with ensemble Musicatreize and coaches on their new work.

The jury was pleasantly surprised by the high level of the compositions. After ample deliberation, the Tenso Young Composers Award was awarded to Sebastian Adrone (Romania, 1989). The jury report will be published soon.

Tenso Professionals Meeting

Choirs in Space was the topic of the most recent Tenso Professionals Meeting in Marseille (FR), 5-7 February 2016.

35 professionals from around Europe discussed benchmark examples, challenges and future plans for professionals choirs performing outside the traditional concert setting. The overall conclusion: space is not only a spatial, but also a mental concept: and if we set our goals right, choirs have the tools to create great concert forms in many different and surprising places, appealing to new and existing audiences alike.

Reports, pictures and videos will appear in the next weeks.

The activities of Tenso Network Europe are supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union.