Prizes total over £6000 for choirs and composers competitions, with trophies, cups, plaques, and of course, immortality. Past winners have gone on to use the Festival's huge international reputation to enhance their standing and to promote their choir's growth and development.
Contests and performances for Boys and Adult Choirs are held throughout Cornwall, this most beautiful part of Britain. The land of Tristan and Isolde, King Arthur, Poldark, and Surf.
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Bucas Four, Burraton, Celtic Male Ensemble, Cornwall Boys Choir, Cornwall Cambiata, Eight in a Bar, Four Lanes, Holman Climax, Imerys Mid-Cornwall, Kerrier, Launceston, Liskerret, Loveny, Marazion Apollo, Mevagissey, Mousehole {3rd Prize 41> voices}, Nankersey, Newquay, Pelynt, Praze Hayle, Rame Peninsula, St Buryan, St. Stythians, Tamar Valley, Tintagel Orpheus, Treverva, Truro School Barbershop {1st Prize Youth Choir}, Wadebridge
Bristol, Bromley Boys Singers {2nd Prize Youth Choir}, Budleigh Salterton, Epsom, Maelstrom, Hampshire Police, Peterborough Boys Choir, Rossendale {3rd Prize <40 voices}, Taunton Deane, Warwickshire Choristers, Warwickshire County Male Voices, Wessex, Weybridge, Wyndham Singers, Caernarvon (Wales), Cor Meibion De Cymru / South Wales MVC (Wales){1st Prize 41> voices}, Froncysyllte (Wales), Phoenix (Wales), South Wales Gay Men's Chorus (Wales){1st Prize <40 voices}, Tenby (Wales), Westerton (Scotland).
Gentlemen Songsters (Czech Rep'), Gesangverein Harmonie 1879 Bernbach (Germany){2nd Prize 41> voices}, Grass Valley (California, USA), Manifestum (Finland){2nd prize <40 voices}, Melbourne Welsh (Australia), Roeros Sangforening (Norway), St Petersburg Boys Choir (Russia) {3rd Prize Youth Choir}, Vocal Six (Sweden).
This year a new special award will be up for grabs in the International Youth Concert and Competition. The Kelwood Cup for the most entertaining youth performance will be adjudicated by Cornwall's prolific composer and conductor, Russell Pascoe
A concert of three outstanding choirs in Falmouth on February 23rd will give a taste of the musical treats to come when the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival bursts across the Cornish scene from the 2nd to 6th of May.
The Celtic Ensemble, Cornwall Boys and Huntington Male Voice Choir will be singing at Falmouth’s All Saints Church, which will also be one of the 40 Cornish venues hosting more than 50 concerts and events by 60 choirs of all ages and nationalities in the largest Festival of its kind in the world.
News Release: Immediate - A concert of three outstanding choirs in Falmouth on February 23rd will give a taste of the musical treats to come when the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival bursts across the Cornish scene from the 2nd to 6th of May.
World class composers descended on Cornwall from Seattle, Shanghai and Surrey to claim their prizes in the hotly contested Composers’ Competition - a jewel in the crown of Cornwall’s biennial International Male Choral Festival.
Kari Cruver Medina from the USA, Norwegian Jens Peter Jongepier who lives and works in China and Ian Assersohn from Epsom in Surrey arrived at Truro College where the awards’ ceremony and premiere performances of their compositions were live-streamed to world-wide audiences.
All three composers were overwhelmed by the rendition of their music by the Truro School Barbershop Boys and choral scholars from Truro Cathedral, conducted by CIMCF Artistic Director Gareth Churcher.
A joint concert is being held on 19 October 2018 at St Keverne Parish Hall. Led by Janette Eathorne and Gareth Churcher.
The Cornish-American Song Institute from Texas, friends of CIMCF, are performing A Song and Choral Festival at the Church of King Charles the Martyr in Falmouth. On 19th, 20th, and 21st June they're presenting different and varied choral programmes. If you are nearby or can get to Falmouth on any of these days you'll enjoy some sublime and inspirational music.
Gareth Churcher and the Directors of the Cornwall International Male Choir Festival would like to congratulate Rame Peninsula Male Voice Choir and its offshoot Halfway Harmony who have been awarded the QUEEN'S AWARD FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.
Rame Peninsular MVC perfectly represents the spirit of the whole community of Cornish Male Voice Choirs in their charitable work, and we're proud to be associated with them.
George Leggo has been a member of Treverva Male choir for 50 years this year, and for 12 years was a member of Eight in a Bar. When very unwell recently he greatly benefitted from care received at Marie Therese House in Hayle. To express his gratitude a benefit concert has been arranged for Saturday 4th August at 7.30pm at Penryn Methodist Chapel. Please try and support this great cause, and have a great night out at the same time.
2018 has seen the highest number of entries ever for this competition. With prize money totalling £2750 together with international prestige and publicity, it has attracted Composers from across the world.
Four internationally renowned and distinguished experts have now been appointed to adjudicate the 2019 Male Choir Festival and the 2018 Composers Competition
