Cuban Choir Wins Gold Medal at South African Choral Games

The Cuban female choir, Ensemble Vocal Luna, won the gold medal in the Modern Music category at the Choral Olympics in South Africa.

The choir is composed of 14 women, and directs the teacher Wilma Verrier Quiñones

The group participated in this X edition of the Choir Games, where they also competed about 300 choirs from more than 60 countries.

The first presentation of the choir took place in the Musaion room of the University of Pretoria, capital of South Africa, where we could distinguish a repertoire including sacred music, Cuban songs and a traditional song of Zulu ethnic groups. 19659002] The second presentation of the choir took place at Universiteitsoord, also in Pretoria, where they shared the stage with the groups Altro Coro of Russia, Stellenbosch University in South Africa and Jeugdkoor Waelrant of Belgium

. the women performed the Nigerian folk song Kaki Lambe, Ave Regina Coelorum, Venezuelan composer and pianist Carlos Pérez Tabares, and I Got Rhythm, a play by American George Gershwin with the words of his brother Ira

. Lullaby Drume Negrito, immortalized by Bola de Nieve, and Murmullo, by Cuban Electo Chepín Rosell

Ensemble Vocal Lu na is a group founded in September 2002 by Sonia Silvia McCormack Bequer, and currently under the direction of the teacher Sandra Santos González.

They participated in the International Choir Festival in Santiago de Cuba, the Esteban Salas International Music Festival, the CORHABANA International Festival, the La Huella de España Festival, among others.

Among the main performances of the Ensemble Vocal Luna are the 9th. Beethoven's symphony, the 5th. Mahler's Symphony, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff or Misa by Beatriz Corona.