GOA UNIVERSITY
CHOIR
Santiago Lusardi Girelli
Artistic Director
VRPP - Visiting Research Professors Programme
Anthony Gonsalves Western Music Chair
Goa University
The Goa University Choir was founded in August 2013 within the VRPP - Visiting Research Professors Programme, of the Western Music Chair of the GOA UNIVERSITY, Goa, INDIA.
Learn more about the VRPP Visiting Professors Program here.
The Goa University Choir was founded in August 2013 under the baton of Maestro Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli, Visiting Research Professor under the Western Music Chair of Goa University.
Since its creation offered more than 50 concerts at several important venues all around Goa and India, it has also collaborated and shared scenario with renowned artists such as the Kings College Choir (UK), Sommerville Cambridge Choir (UK), SOI Symphony Orchestra of India, Mtro. Martin Brabbins (UK), Cappella della Luce Ensemble (Spain), the St Ephraim Choir (Hungary), the SOI - Symphonic Orchestra of India, Vandalia and the Seville Chamber Choir (Spain), Agshavali Male Choir (Georgia), the Bombay Chamber Orchestra among other. The University Choir has hosted in these four years more than 180 international scholars, artists, and world-class soloists.
The GU CHOIR is an innovative art singing project that works as an educational, artistic, and research project, and is most probably the very first University Choir in India. Associated with the Anthony Gonsalves Western Music Chair, the GU CHOIR. The GU Choir is a dynamic institution where GU students, faculty, and people from the Goan community meet to achieve beauty through the ancient and novel practice of singing.
VIRTUAL CHOIR 2020
VIRTUAL CHOIR 2020
My Life is My Message - Virtual Choir - Goa University Choir
Jana Gana Mana / National Anthem of India GU CHOIR
A Clare Benediction (J. Rutter) Goa University Choir HD2
YOU LIVE IN GOA - COME AND SING WITH US?
If you are passionate about music and especially choral music and looking for a challenge,
we would love to hear from you!
Auditions to join the GU CHOIR for the 2019-20 season are now open to new singers (students, faculty, and people from the community).
New choir members need not be professional musicians, but singers should possess some important choral skills.
Perfect music-reading skills are not necessary,
but nuanced phrasing and precise intonation are required. The Goa University Choir sings with a warm, tension-free tone, and passion. Though our members come from different walks of life and have a wide variety of vocations, some are experienced singers, while many learn step by step as we rehearse.
So drop all your inhibitions and come sing with us!
Singing in a Choir like the GU CHOIR is definitely an enriching experience!
Sat, 02 NovChurch of Sta Monica02 Nov 2019, 7:00 pmChurch of Sta Monica, Old Goa Rd, Goa Velha, Goa 403402, IndiaGoa University Choir in concert with Mtro Ariel Alonso (Paris). Invite Artists Stuti Choir & Goa String Ensemble
Wed, 30 OctGoa University30 Oct 2019, 10:00 am – 02 Nov 2019, 8:00 pmGoa University, Goa University, Taleigao, Goa, India2nd Choir & Orchestra Conducting Course with our invited conductor Maestro Ariel Alonso (Paris), world-know conductor and pedagogue that has travelled around the world teaching conducting in several countries, and our Residency Conductor Dr Santiago Lusardi Girelli, VRPP for Western Music Goa Uni.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OUR MISSION - WORK HARD TO REACH CHORAL MUSIC BEAUTY
Since its inception, the GU CHOIR has offered dozens of programs, concerts and workshops across Goa and India, receiving excellent commentaries from audiencesand press alike. During the last four years, the GU Choir has offered concerts at several important venues all around Goa and India. It has also collaborated and shared the stagewith renowned artists from all around the world.
OUR MISSION
To inspire and enrich the lives of our University students/scholarsand Community at largethrough the performance of inspirational/inspiringchoral music.
To sing at the highest level of choral artistry, and to raise the bar of excellence among performing artists and within educational organizations.