9th (1992)

THE NINTH

The Stasys Šimkus Choir Competition, which welcomed 16 choirs from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as guest participants from Sweden, took place on October 24–25, 1992. The ensembles competed in four groups: women’s choirs, men’s choirs, mixed choirs, and chamber choirs.

The laureates of this competition were as follows: in the women’s choir group – Liepaitės from Vilnius (conductor A. Gudelytė); in the men’s choir group – first place (no laureate title awarded); in the chamber mixed choir group – the Tallinn Chamber Choir Mainor (conductor O. Eits); and in the mixed choir group – the mixed choir of the Vilnius Juozas Tallat-Kelpša Higher Music School (conductor Juozas Talžūnas).

Special prizes were awarded to: the Klaipėda choir Gilija (conductor Remigijus Songaila) for the best performance of a Stasys Šimkus song; the mixed choir of the Vilnius Juozas Tallat-Kelpša Higher Music School (conductor Juozas Talžūnas) as the best Lithuanian choir participating in the competition; the Tallinn Chamber Choir Mainor (conductor O. Eits) as the best foreign choir (also receiving the prize for the most outstanding program); the mixed choir of the Klaipėda Stasys Šimkus Higher Music School (conductor Gediminas Purlys) for the best performance of a work with a maritime theme; and the Klaipėda men’s choir Aukuras (conductor Robertas Varnas) as the youngest choir.

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