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25/07/2024
25/07/2024

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This spring bring to Vancouver the Philippine Madrigal Singers. With a concert scheduled for April 13, 2024 at the Christ Church Cathedral in downtown as part of their Canada coast-to-coast tour dubbed IntenSIXTY: The Philippine Madrigal Singers’ 60th Anniversary Celebration. "The most beautiful sound on earth,” was bestowed on the choir by a juror of the 1997 European Grand Prix (EGP) for Choral Singing in Tours, France, which they won that year, as well as in 2007. The EGP is the Olympics of choral contests open only to the grand prize winners of the six toughest European choral competitions. The distinction of having won the prize multiple times belongs to only a handful of ensembles. They are the only Asian group in this elite circle so far. Further, UNESCO named them Artist for Peace for “putting fame and influence at the service of UNESCO’s ideals and efforts to promote cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, and a culture of peace.” The Madz is one of the world’s most awarded choirs, winning in international choral competitions like the Arezzo and Gorizia in Italy, Marktoberdorf in Germany, Spittal in Austria, Neuchatel in Switzerland. Prof. Andrea O. Veneracion, Philippine National Artist, is the founder and first choirmaster in 1963. She gathered colleagues and friends at the Abelardo Hall of the UP College of Music to sightread madrigals. The Madz debuted just a few years later at Carnegie Hall, in the Choruses of the World choral festival. Established as the University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers, they currently use the title of The Philippine Madrigal Singers after being designated as a resident company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The Madz specializes in the madrigal, a polyphonic song-form popular during the Renaissance. This has inspired the choir’s unique style of singing while seated in a semi-circle without a conductor. The madrigal, however, is only one of various genres in the broad repertoire of t

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The UNITED FILIPINO-CANADIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (UFCABC) is a conglomeration of community based organizations within the province. This page is dedicated to promoting the events of the organization and all the individual conglomerate organizations.