Goa University Choir Verified listing

The Goa University Choir was founded in August 2013 under the baton of Mtro. Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli, visiting Research Professor under the Western Music Chair of the Goa University. Since its creation, the GU CHOIR has offered multiple programmes, concerts and workshops across Goa and India, receiving excellent commentaries from audience and press alike. During the last three years, the Choir has offered more than 20 concerts at several important venues all around Goa and India, it has also collaborated and shared scenario with renowned artistes from all the world: India, Africa, Asia, Europe and America, among them Cappella della Luce Ensemble (Spain), Rakesh Chaurasia (INDIA), the St Ephraim Choir (Hungary), Vandalia and the Seville Chamber Choir (Spain), and the oldest Indian Orchestra: the Bombay Chamber Orchestra. The GU CHOIR has hosted more than 60 international artists and world-class soloists like the renowned Spanish soprano Rocío de Frutos (Spain), the Argentinian concertmaster Leo Rossi, the German flutist Mirjiam Munzel, and the British-Indian pianist from the Oxford University, Prof. Karl Luchtmayer (UK), within dozens of others. This innovative artistic project 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, under the baton of Dr. Lusardi Girelli, has achieved important goals such as singing in more than 20 languages, blending Indian music with Gregorian chant, and the performance of the St Mathews Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach at the Ketevan Sacred Music Festival in collaboration with more than 40 artists coming from Europe and America. In 2016 the GU Choir released its first album, and in 2017 has recorded original soundtracks for the documentary on the life Goan activist Aquino Braganza. For 2018 it is preparing its second album production. The GU Choir is a living institution where people from the Goan community and GU students meet to achieve beauty through the ancient and novel practice of singing.