competition results 2008

Category Children Choirs

Gold Level
Chór dzieciecy OSM im. K. Lipinskiego, Lublin, Poland
Conductor: Renata Kolodynska-Pyda

Silver Level
Sancta, St. Petersburg, Russia
Conductor: Nonna Dourandina

Category Girls Choirs

Gold Level
Kunitachi College of Music Female Choir Angelica, Tokyo, Japan
Conductor: Ko Matsushita

Silver Level
Dekliški pevski zbor Gimnazije Celje-Center, Celje, Slovenia
Conductor: Barbara Arlic Kerstein

Siver Level
Coláiste Muire School Choir, Ennis, Ireland
Conductor: Conductor: Carmel Griffin

Category Boys Choirs

Silver Level
Kadans, Moscow, Russia
Conductor: Elena Kandzuba

Category Mixed Choirs

Gold Level and The Laureate of the Festival Choral Competition
Albion College Briton Singers, Albion, USA
Special Award for Performance of Compulsory Composition: Antonin Tucapsky – Pater mi
Conductor: Douglas Rose

Gold Level
Smíšený sbor Gymnázia Jana Nerudy, Praha, Czech Republic
Special Award for Performance of Composition: Zdenek Lukas – Alleluia
Conductor: Petr Bärtl

Gold Level
Choir "Contrast", Nizhnyi Novgorod, Russia
Conductor: Olga Podolskaya

Silver Level
Excelsior, Bistrita, Rumania Conductor: Ana-Maria Razoare

Bronze Level
UCC Choral Society, Cork, Ireland
Conductor: Mary Pedar Daly

Category Brass Orchestras

Gold Level
Dechový orchestr ZUŠ Unicov, Czech Republic
Conductor: Jaroslav Voloch

Special Category Folklore Orchestras

Gold Level
Youth Orchestra of National Instruments, State Higher Cultural School, Nikolaev, Ukraine
Conductor: Olga Kominarets

Silver Level
Ensemble "Echochromata" of Mandoulides Schools, Thessaloniki, Greece
Conductor: Jannis Polimeneris, Eleni Theodoridou

Honorary Certificate for Performance

Sct. Peders Drenge- og Pigekor Mellerup, Randers, Denmark
Conductor: Karsten Blond
Loreto College Senior Choir, Coleraine, Ireland
Conductor: Howard Gillespie
William Howard School, Brampton, United Kingdom
Conductor: Janette Kipling
Dun Lughaidh Secondary School, Dundalk, Ireland
Conductor: Orla Drumgoole
Donskie Uzory, Kazanskaya, Russia (Special Award for Creative Dramaturgy)
Conductor: P.N. Palchikov
Choir Orfei, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Russia
Conductor: Olga Shyriaeva