Nanchong's "Sister Choir" will appear at the Tokyo International Choir Festival

Nanchong Sister Choir

On July 25, the "2nd Tokyo International Choir Festival" will be held in Japan. The reporter learned yesterday (16) that the Nanchong City Cultural Center "Sister Choir" will appear in the International Choir Festival, participate in competitions and performances, and perform folk choral programs with Great Nanchong style.

International Choir Festival Selected Nanchong Choir

The Tokyo International Choir Festival is one of the international choral competitions, with teams from all over the world, and the judges are also top conductors and composers from all over the world. According to Li Ting, a member of the "Sister Choir" of the Municipal Cultural Center, the Tokyo International Choir Festival has higher requirements for the participating teams, in addition to singing skills and appeal, and at the same time requires that the program must have originality and their own national characteristics.

"Since March this year, in the selection of the participating teams for the second Tokyo International Choir Festival, we have carefully choreographed and recorded original choral programs such as "Marriage in Chuanbei" and "Silkworm Mulberry Ancient Ferry", and the organizing committee considered it to be very artistic, so it was selected." Li Ting said that these programs are mainly based on chorus, integrating a variety of artistic elements such as instrumental music and performance, which is very artistically appealing.

"At present, the Sister Choir has been officially invited to go to Tokyo, Japan, before July 25 to participate in the second Tokyo International Choir Festival competition and perform the above programs." Zhou Zhihong, director of the Municipal Cultural Center, said.

Going abroad The "sister" must win glory for the country

It is understood that the "Sister Choir" has more than 40 members, an average age of 30 years old, and the members are all young women who are good at chorus and performance, including the backbone of music in cultural centers at all levels in our city, as well as choral art lovers from all walks of life. According to Zhou Zhihong, the team has won the Ministry of Culture Qunxing Award, the First Farmers' Art Festival and Folk Art Festival of Sichuan Province, and is a well-known female choir team. On the 13th of this month, the team also won the first prize in the chorus group of the "Renhe Square Cup" Nanchong Vocal Music Competition.

This is the first time that the members of the Municipal Culture Center's "Sister Choir" have gone abroad to participate in the 2nd Tokyo International Choir Festival, and they will compete with outstanding choir teams from more than 40 countries around the world from July 25 to August 2.

"After months of meticulous rehearsal and continuous improvement of programs such as "Marriage in Northern Sichuan" and "Silkworm Mulberry Ancient Crossing", the performance has reached a perfect state, and we will go all out to sprint for the award and strive to win glory for the country." Li Ting told reporters.

According to reports, during the second Tokyo International Choir Festival, the Nanchong City Cultural Center's "Sister Choir" will also participate in the "Second Tokyo International Choir Festival" to perform local programs with Chinese national characteristics, show the charm of Traditional Chinese culture, and promote international artistic exchanges.

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Nanchong Sister Choir is the first female performance singing team in Nanchong established by the Municipal Cultural Center, which was established in 2011 and is composed of choral enthusiasts who are good at singing and performing. Most of the singing content is choral works with the characteristics of Nanchong's local culture.

In 2013, the team's creative performance and singing work "Marriage in Northern Sichuan" won the "Stars Award" in the final of the 16th China Arts Festival and National Stars Award; in 2014, the company's creative and rehearsal performance and singing work "My Sister and I Arrived" won the Gold Award of the Stars of the First Farmers' Arts Festival and Folk Art Festival in Sichuan Province, and in 2015, it was funded by the National Arts Fund. In 2017, he created a new work "A Bamboo Pole Brakes Across the River" and won the gold medal in the Third Folk Song Competition of Sichuan Province. At the same time, since its inception, the "Sister Choir" has participated in many intangible cultural heritage activities across the country and is deeply loved by the public.

According to the Nanchong Evening News

Reporter Zhang Chi