• Zdeněk Lukáš – scores for mixed choirs
• Zdeněk Lukáš – scores for female choirs
• Zdeněk Lukáš – scores for children´s and male choirs

Many excellent choirs participated in the International Festival of Contemporary Choir Music, Canti veris Praga, that was held in February 2016. This festival, which is a continuation of successful years of the International Choir Festival “The Spring Is Starting” and entirely focuses on contemporary choir production and work of Zdeněk Lukáš, proved to be very beneficial and vital.

If you don’t want to take part in the competition appearance but are interested in the atmosphere of the festival and meeting other choirs at international level, apply for a non-competition appearance as part of the concerts accompanying the festival. Please indicate that you want to take part in a competition/non-competition appearance in the competition entry form annex.

We trust that you will find the International Festival of Contemporary Chorus Music with the Zdeněk Lukáš Award, Canti veris Praga, interesting in 2022 as well and we are looking forward to seeing you there.

Artistic guarantee

The Czech Choirs Association, prof. PaedDr. Jiří Kolář, honorary president of CCA

Artistic counsel

prof. PaedDr. Jiří Kolář, conductor, honorary president of CCA
doc. PaedDr. Zdeněk Vimr, conductor, specialist of Z. Lukáš work of art

Festival organiser:

The festival is organized by Music Travel Agency Prague in co-operation The Czech Choirs Association, experienced organizers of international musical and cultural festival, events and travel – MTA

Regulation of the competition

• only non professional choirs can take part in the competition, although the conductor can be
  professional
• choirs may take part in more than one category
• he time limit of the competition programme is 13-15 mins of the total time, the order of
  competition compositions is at random

Categories

A: children choirs under 16 years old

B: girls, female and male choirs over 25 singers

C: mixed choirs over 25 singers

D: chamber choirs over 8 under 24 singers

E: non-competitive performances

The competition programme

1. spiritual composition originated after the year 1950 “a cappella”

2. secular composition originated after the year 1950 “a cappella”

Note:
a) one composition must be from a local composer, the other one from a foreign composer
b) children choirs under 16 years old can perform one of these compositions with instrumental accompaniment

3. Zdeněk Lukáš composition according to own choice in original arrangement of the author
(a cappella or with instrumental accompaniment)

4. composition of domestic author originated after the year 1957 “a cappella”

5. other potential compositions according to own choice originated after
the year 1975 “a cappella” or with accompaniment of 1-2 musical instruments

Note: Competition compositions must be original music (they can be set to folklore lyrics), not folk song arrangements.