Taipei International Choral Festival 2025
25. julij - 3. avgust 2025



Poster for the first performances : Ambrož ČOPI: PSALM CANTATA in Loudong and Taipei, Taiwan, July 26 & 27, 2025

Dedicated to Dr. Janez Janež, medical doctor in Taiwan (1952-1990)

OPENING CEREMONY, National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Friday, 25.VII.2025



Opening ceremony, TICF 25, performers and guests


"Group photo" after the TICF 2025 opening ceremony: performers and guests

Ambrož Čopi : PSALM CANTATA (Preview Performance) & DEKLIŠKI ZBOR SV. STANISLAVA, Yilan Performing Arts Center, Yilan, Taiwan, Saturday, 26.VII.2025


Yilan Performing Arts Center, Yilan, Taiwan




St. Stanislav Girl's Choir & Lang-Yang Girl's Senior High School Choir


Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra erhu instrumentalist









From the left: Vito Primožič, music editor at ASTRUM Music Publications; Father Camillian Celestino Rizzi and other medical staff at the St. Mary's Hospital, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan


Helena Fojkar Zupančič & Ambrož Čopi after preview performance of Čopi's PSALM CANTATA in Yilan


Ambrož Čopi and Ferdinand Ting, TICF director executive in Taipei after the PSALM CANTATA preview performance

Ambrož Čopi : PSALM CANTATA (First Performance) & ST. STANISLAV GIRL's CHOIR, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, 27.VII.2025

Dedicated to Dr. Janez Janež and his 38-years long medical activity in Taiwan











Andrej Makor / Tone Pavček: PTICE (Birds) for four-part high voices with piano accompaniment (2025), novelty, extract



Chien-Min Weng and Yu-Chung John Ku prepared choirs for the Psalm cantata


Standing, from the left: Camillian Father Celstino Rizzi / seated, from the left: Chia-Fen Weng, Ambrož Čopi and Helena Fojkar Zupančič






LECTURE SERIES: Ambrož Čopi: PSALM CANTATA, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, 28.VII.2025

Ambrož Čopi and translator to Chinese Dr. Yu-Wen Pan


WORLD CHORAL CHAMPIONSHIP, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, 28.VII.2025

Vokalion Praha, Czech Republic; conductor Dr. Jan Pirner and Ambrož Čopi


University of Mindanao Chorale (Philippines)


Winners: Diocesan Choral Society (Hong Kong)


A NIGHT OF ASIAN CHORAL MUSIC, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, 29.VII.2025


Saint Angela Choir (Indonesia); composer and pianist Nicholas Rio; Roni Sugiarto, conductor


University of Mindanao Chorale (Philippines)


ST. STANISLAV GIRLs CHOIR, National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, 30.VII.2025






Dirk DuHei, Artisctic TICF Director and the cgoir from Slovenia


TAIPEI INTERNATIONAL CHORAL COMPETITION: Song-Yi Hall, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday-Friday, 30.VII. - 1.VIII. 2025

Participants

Slovene composers (of the ASTRUM Music Publications), performed at the TICC 2025 :









YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt2ntOjYV6g

Tine Bec performed 2 times at the Grand Prix : Deliver me (SSAA) at 20:21

and

Jubilate Deo universa terra (SATB) at 1:30:37

LECTURE SERIES: Helena Fojkar Zupančič : Singing Slovenia: A Yourney Through Sound, Culture and Choral Training, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, 31.VII.2025




VARIA & CONNECTIONS at the Taipei International Choral Festival, Taipei, Taiwan; 25.VII. - 3.VIII. 2025


From the left: composer and pianist Nicholas Rio; Ambrož Čopi; Roni Sugiarto, conductor; Sumi Fujitse (Japan)



WEN-CHI Li, composer; Annabel Hsiao-Shu Liu, conductor





Political intrigues in choral music



736 pages of the Psalm cantata


PRIMOŽIČ Vito, ASTRUM Music Publications Editor and Dr. Cheng-pu Chang, Taiwanese choral conductor, Music Department of National Kaohsiung Normal University, conductor of Ching-Yun Choir & Kaohsiung Chamber Choir (Taiwan)


Pastor David Pan and Helena Fojkar Zupančič