Çanakkale choir festival new international Çanakkale choirs festival 2019: Development assessment from 2011 to 2019

Abstract

The Çanakkale Choir Festival was held for the first time in 2011 at the national level. Its purpose is academic, it also contributes to the development of social relationships between children and young people from the polyphonic choral community in Turkey. Within a week, all aspects of people’s work are affected, the choristers and the choir conductor experience new excitements. The idea is to ensure the interaction between them, as well as between the different choirs, and to draw public attention to choral music. To this end, the festival meetings of the choirs with the people are carried out also through performances on the streets, which contributes a lot to the relationship „choirs“ – „society“. The festival had its editions every 2 years (2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017). Its great development took place during its preparation and holding as an international in 2019. To this chronicle I add my personal impressions and judgments, in my capacity as the general artistic director of the festival: how it was established as an international structure and how, namely as an international one, the Çanakkale Choral Festival clearly contributes to the development of Turkish choral music.