SAN JUAN CORAL was a non-competitive choral festival for selected, mixed, female, male and / or chamber choirs. It was carried out in San Juan, Argentina, being its first edition in August 1998 and the following in the years 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
The Festival included concerts and workshops programmed over four days full of choral music and friendship.
Its creator is Prof. María Elina Mayorga, along with the Choir of the Catholic University of Cuyo.
Details:
The following choirs have participated:
Argentinean choirs
Agrupación de Cámara "Ars Viva". Conductor: J. A. Ruiz (Córdoba)
Asociación Coral Lorenzo Perosi- Conductor: Osvaldo César Manzanilla (Ituzaingó - Provincia de Buenos Aires)
Camerata de la Luna - Conductor: Francisco Pablo Mensa (Villa Mercedes - San Luis.
Coral Ars Subtilis. Conductor: H. Schvartzman (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coral de la Rábida. Conductor: F. Moruja (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coral Femenino de San Justo. Conductor: R. Saccente (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coral Nuevas Voces. Conductor: R. Mansilla (Mendoza, Argentina)
Coro "Vox Antiqua". Conductor: L. Waisman (Córdoba, Argentina)
Coro de Cámara Arturo Beruti. Conductor: M. E. Mayorga (San Juan, Argentina)
Coro de Cámara de San Nicolás. Conductor: G. Martín (Buenos Aires - Argentina)
Coro de Cámara Tucumán. Conductor: R. Steinsleger (Tucumán, Argentina)
Coro de la Municipalidad de Morón. Conductor: G. Tesone (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coro de la Universidad Católica de Cuyo. Conductor: M. E. Mayorga (San Juan, Argentina)
Coro Estable de Rosario (Rosario, Santa Fe) Conductor: Cristian Hernández Larguía
Coro Estable del Centro del Conocimiento - Misiones - Conductor: Emilio Rocholl
Coro Juvenil Femenino Domingo Zípoli, Conductor: Natalia Vadillo (Córdoba, Argentina)
Coro Municipal de Córdoba. Conductor: G. Báez (Córdoba, Argentina)
Coro Polifónico Nacional de Ciegos "C. R. Larrimbe”. Conductor: O. Manzanelli (Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coro Universitario de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Conductor: G. Tesone (San Juan - Argentina)
Coro Universitario de Mendoza. Conductor: S. Vallesi (Mendoza, Argentina)
Coro Universitario de Misiones. Conductor: E. Rocholl (Misiones, Argentina)
Coro Vocacional de la Universidad Nacional de San Juan Conductor: J. Petracchini (San Juan, Argentina)
Ensamble Vocal Mendoza. Conductor: E. Fernandez (Mendoza, Argentina)
Foreign choirs
Ave Chamber Choir. Conductor: A. Hauptman (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Camerata Coral de la Universidad de Veracruz. Conductor: E. Sleziak Kandora (Xalapa, México)
Collegium Cantorum Académico Politécnico Chestochowskiej. Conductor: J. Siadlak (Chestochowa, Polonia)
Coral Canto em Canto Conductor: E. Lakschevitz (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Coro Béla Bartók. Conductor: T. Lakner (Pécs - Hungría)
Coro Collegium Medicum Universidad Nicolaus Copernicus, Conductor: Janusz Stanecki (Bydgoszcz, Polonia)
Coro Contemporaneo de Campinas, Conductor: Angelo Fernandes (Campinas, Brasil)
Coro de Cámara de la Academia de Música de Bydgoszcz. Conductor: J. Stanecki (Bydgoszcz, Polonia)
Coro de Cámara de la Universidad de Playa Ancha. Conductor: C. A. Hernández Silva (Valparaíso, Chile)
Coro de la Universidad Católica de Chile. Conductor: V. Alarcón (Santiago, Chile)
Coro de la Universidad Católica de Lublin. Conductor: G. Pecka (Lublin, Poland)
Coro del Conservatorio Nacional de Música. Conductor: D. Arontes Reyes (México DF)
Coro Drakkar (Uruguay) - Conductor: Chiara Danielle Schol
Coro Grupo de Cámara Chile. Conductor: M. Baeza Gajardo (Santiago, Chile)
Coro Iuventus Svitavy. Conductor: V. Buresová (Svitavy, República Checa)
Coro Madrigalista de la Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. Conductor: R. Godoy Peralta (Santiago, Chile)
Coro Universitario de Sant Yago. Conductor: P. de Luis y Alba (Valencia, España)
Coro Universitario de Santiago. Conductor: P. Carrasco (Santiago, Chile)
Grupo Vocal KEA, Conductor: Enrique Azurza Aramburu (Tolosa, España)
Madrigal Musicanto de Itajubá. Conductor: A. Fernandes (Itajubá, Brasil)
Maulbronner Kammerchor - Conductor: Jürgen Budday (Alemania)
Peninsula Women’s Chorus (coro femenino , EEUU) - Conductor: Martín Benvenuto
Periferia Vocal - Buenos Aires - Conductor: Pablo Piccinni
South China Normal University Choir - República Popular de China - Conductor: Mrs. Su Yanhui
Studio Coral - Voces Femeninas. Conductor: M. A. da Silva Ramos (Sao Paulo - Brasil)
The Stony Brook Camerata Singers. Conductor: T. Mount (New York, EEUU)
Workshops and improvement activities:
"The Gregorian chant and its projection in the polyphony of the Renaissance", by the Mtro. Claudio Morla (Buenos Aires - Argentina)
"Hungarian choral music", by Prof. Lilla Gábor (Budapest, Hungary)
"Polish contemporary choral music", by Dr. Pawel Lukaszewski (Poland)
"The Marian Music during the Viceroyalty Mexico", by the Mtro. David Arontes Reyes (Mexico City - Mexico)
"The musical pedagogy: Zoltan Kodály", by Prof. Lilla Gábor (Budapest, Hungary)
"New sounds in Chinese choral music", by Master John Winzenburg (Hong Kong)
Singing Workshop by Silvia Nasiff (National University of Cuyo, Mendoza)
American Choral Music Workshop, by directors and invited professionals: Canada, by Elaine Quilichini; Argentina, by Antonio Russo; Brazil, by Andreia Anhezini; Chile, by Ruth Godoy Peralta
"Trends in the Brazilian Choral Repertoire since the end of the 19th century", by Mtro. Dr. Marco Antonio da Silva Ramos and Prof. Susana Igayara (Sao Paulo - Brazil)
Choral Study Workshops oriented to the symphonic-choral repertoire under the direction of Maestro Antonio Russo and Alejo Perez
Other guest artists:
Silvina Sadoly (soprano), Silvia Nassif (mezzosoprano), Gloria Lopez Sandmann (alto), Carlos Ullan (tenor), Marcelo Zelada (tenor), Fernando Lazari (baritone), Sergio Carlevaris (bass) and Federico Ciancio on piano and organ, among others.
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Graduated from the National University of San Juan as a Professor of Music Education, María Elina Mayorga has been a choir conductor since she was seventeen years old, an activity that began with the Arturo Beruti Chamber Choir. A similar task was carried out between 1986 and 2015 with the Choir of the Catholic University of Cuyo. With both choirs she has offered numerous performances throughout the provincial, national and international scope (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria and Israel)
She studied Choral Conducting with Antonio Russo, Néstor Zadoff, J. Frombonne, P. Caillard, Carlos López Puccio, María del Carmen Aguilar, Larry Wyatt, Claudio Morla, Néstor Andrenacci, Clara Cortázar, Frank Druschel and Werner Pfaff, among others.
Creator of choral events:
International Choir Festival SAN JUAN CORAL (1998-2015) - Contest and National Choir Festival ANSILTA - MUSICA SACRA EN SAN JUAN - Festival CANTO EN SOL, for children and youth choirs - FORO CORAL AMERICANO, with the presence of outstanding representatives of the international choral community, from Canada to the southern tip of Argentina - SAN JUAN CANTA, International Choir Competition and Festival whose first edition was held in August 2016.
Awards and distinctions:
2001: the Center for Culture of San Juan declared her "Remarkable Personality 2001" - 2002: she received a distinction of UPCN (National Civil Union) in recognition of hers contribution to culture - 2003: distinction of the Government of the Province of San Juan through the Undersecretary of Culture, in recognition of his career. Similar distinctions received from the National Gendarmerie (2004), the Club de Leones (2005) and the Municipality of Coquimbo and Casa de Chile in San Juan (2006) - 2007: on International Women's Day, she was declared "Illustrious Woman" by the Municipality of the City of San Juan - 2010: she was declared "Outstanding Woman of the Bicentennial" by the Women's Directorate of the Ministry of Human Development and Social Promotion of the Government of San Juan - 2011: the Rotary Club San Juan awarded it the "Professional Excellence Award" - 2016: The Honorable Chamber of Deputies declared her an Illustrious Citizen of the province of San Juan.
María Elina Mayorga is the dedicatee of several compositions and arrangements by authors such as Antonio M. Russo, Vivian Tabbush, Daniel Blech and Alfonso Paz, among others.
