Founded in 1983, the Chœur Amivoix de Varennes is now counting more that forty SATB chorists. The repertoire is wide to cover sacred songs, world and popular music as well as local Quebec French language repertoire. Our regular Monday evening practices are very dear to all members, singing within a joyful atmosphere, concentration at the upmost, high endorphyn level and maximum stress relief; devine sensation … Two public performances are scheduled per year, one during spring and the other in December. The Choeur is masterfully directed by Mrs. Claude-Marie Landré and piano accompaniment assured by Mr.John Miranda. We are proud and honored to represent the province of Québec at the FestivalSole Sardegna, event that we have been waiting for with great impatience and feverishness for the past two years.
We hope that our performance and repertoire will allow you to appreciate our Quebec specific colors and culture and will generate interest for you to visit our beautiful country. We are more than a group of chorists , essentially we became a group of friends singing from our heart in a single voice ; this is the Choeur Amivoix de Varennes .

The female choir CARMINA was founded in the mid-winter of 1989 in Tallinn, by its conductor Margit Võsa. Now in our 36th season as of 2024/2025, the choir consists of 23 singers. Over the long and active years, the choir has become a closely-knit community of friends. Many singers have been performing together since the choir’s first day.
Carmina belongs to the Estonian Choir Association and is a member of the Estonian Female Choir Association. Carmina holds concerts throughout Estonia, but we mainly sing in the churches and concert halls of Tallinn. Despite our singers not being professional musicians, Carmina has often put itself to the test with challenging and complex repertoires. Our choir competes in the A-category of Estonian female choirs contests, and we have always placed in the top six rankings of this category’s contests. Carmina has also successfully competed in many international choir festivals and contests during our numerous singing trips abroad.

Since its birth, our choir has sung in all the Estonian Song Festivals, as well as in the song festivals and grand projects organized by the Estonian Female Choir Association. Carmina’s tradition is to hold an annual spring concert in Niguliste Church or in the Blackheads’ House and Christmas concerts in different churches of Tallinn. St Jacob’s Church in Viimsi has also often been a welcoming space for our concerts and recordings. Carmina often engages promising young musicians, and we have dedicated concerts exclusively to French, Finnish or Russian music and poetry. We have also hosted and participated in joint projects with other choirs.
Margit Võsa, the founder and conductor of Carmina, has studied conducting in the conservatories in Tallinn and Saint Petersburg. She has won awards with the choir at many international choral competitions and released four CDs. She has been active in the choir music scene, by conducting, teaching, organising large-scale events. She has received a number of awards in the community of choral musicians, as well as top level recognition on the Estonian government level.

The Singtonìa polyphonic choir, founded and directed by the Maestro Caterina Capello, was born in 1996 and currently has 30 members; it has been offering concerts and musical activities for more than 25 years in Piedmont and its surroundings.
The choir has participated in various international choral festivals including Prague, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Cork and Val Pusteria, enjoying success and enthusiasm everywhere.
In its musical journey, Singtonia has recorded 6 CDs, the last one “Un Mondo di Musica” in 2021. The choir’s repertoire is mainly based on Ethnic and Pop music performed a cappella, but it merges and contaminates choral music with other arts such as cinema and theatre. In fact it created some video clips sung and acted by the choristers themselves.
Singtonia concerts are joyful and engaging, true “sonorous-shows” made of voices, percussion, body-percussion, choreographies and a touch of irony and theatricality.

The “Coro Lirico San Giovanni” debuted in June 2008 in Monza with the “Messa di Gloria” by Giacomo Puccini. His lyrical vocation led him quickly to establish itself in numerous concerts, performed with orchestras and conductors of national and international fame. Since its inception, the choir has been directed by Maestro Nicola Tumicioli and Nicolò Dal Ben. Since January 2023 the choir has been led by Maestro Andrea Cristofolini.
The repertoire of the Coro Lirico San Giovanni includes the most famous songs for Choir and Orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, J. Offenbach, Gaetano Donizetti, Pietro Mascagni, Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, P. Iljic Tchaikosky and Mikis Theodorakis, and others, as well as unforgettable pages of the most beautiful scores, composed by one of the most famous Italians in the world, Ennio Morricone, recently awarded the oscar, and Florian Hans Zimmer.
The full choir his vast devoting great attention to sacred music, performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Friedrich Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Lorenzo Perosi, Antonio Salieri, Antonio Vivaldi, Benedetto Marcello and Wolfgang A. Mozart and many more.

The Choir has also faced an unusual repertoire for a Lyric Choir, such as jazz, swing and blues, with resounding success with critics and the public, in the year 2014 in collaboration with the Orchestra Big Band Ritmo-Sinfonica “City of Verona”.
The Choir has also made her debut in costume works such as BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA by Rossini and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA by Mascagni, directed and stage design by Luigi Barilone, in the city Guastalla (RE), in the city Rovereto (TN) and in the city Valeggio sul Mincio (VR), and in autumn 2016, in two other prestigious investments at Teatro Ristori Verona, still with BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA by Rossin and DON GIOVANNI by W.A. Mozart. The Choir has performed in the city of Fiume (CROATIA), at the Italian Community of Fiume, for some years now holding a fruitful exchange of reciprocal visits.
The Conductor Andrea Cristofolini, born in Marebbe (Bolzano), graduated in piano at the Bolzano Conservatory of Music. He then continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music, specializing in composition and orchestra conducting. He taught orchestral exercises for two years at the Trieste Conservatory. From 1985 to 2021, he worked at the Fondazione Arena di Verona, first as maestro di sala and prompter and then, since 1995, as maestro del Coro. He has carried out an intense concert activity as a pianist, devoting himself mainly to contemporary and chamber music, performing in many countries in Europe. 

The choir Chorodia was formed on October 16, 2010 on the spontaneous initiative of some choristers and the musician Noemi Cabras, who is its music director still today. They are a part of the choir since the very beginning. At first, Chorodìa introduced itself as the choir of Decimomannu, but later, because some singers came from other parts of the island and from mainland Italy, and because nobody lived there anymore, it decided to add “Voci di Sardegna” (Voices of Sardinia) to its name. This was meant to highlight its intention to include any polyphonic experience in its repertoire. Chorodia explores a wide repenoire, which includes songs in the Sardinian language (both Logudorese and Campidanese). as well as in Tabarchino and Genoese. It also performs songs in English, italian pop music, Neapolitan songs, and liturgical music in Latin.
The music director of Chorodìa Voci di Sardegna, Noemi Cabras, has long experience as a polyphonic choir director and as a music teacher in Italian school, as well as in civic schools of music and singing. 

She has also volunteered as a choir director at the Uta prison. She holds a Master’s Degree in Music Education and, in the past she studied violin at the Conservatoiy of Cagliari. Previously Chorodìa voices of Sardinia has taken part in many polyphonic concerts. It has also performed in Milan at the Press Club on the occasion of the Art and Culture Awards and abroad in Munich.

The activity of the ‘San Giovanni Battista’ Polyphonic Choir of Domusnovas dates back to 1996 and soon became a significant reality that made itself known and appreciated at the numerous choral music gatherings organised in the Iglesiente and the rest of the region, in which it enthusiastically participated. The repertoire, initially purely religious, has been enriched over time with songs ranging from the Sardinian folk tradition to those of the Gospel & Spirituals world, touching on some of the best-known classical melodies and reworking evergreen hits of pop music.
In the year 2000, the Choir was established as the ‘Associazione Musicale Corale e Strumentale San Giovanni Battista’ (San Giovanni Battista Choral and Instrumental Music Association), maintaining its focus on the repertoire of sacred music on the one hand, and on the other developing programmes that ranged across different musical genres and taking part in concert events involving choral ensembles from all over Sardinia and working to disseminate musical knowledge and raise awareness of active musical practice.

Through the constant commitment of Maestro Sergio Talana, who directed it until 2012, and the collaboration with the poet Francesco Carlini and Prof. Mario Puddu, a path was undertaken to rediscover and enhance the Campidanese folk song by including new songs inspired by the cadences typical of folk music itself. In continuity with the experience gained so far, the activity led by Maestro Vittorio Orrù, who took over the direction of the choral ensemble in 2013, continues to confirm the consolidated repertoire and add new interesting proposals.
Since 2015, the choir has been collaborating and is the reference point for the programming in the Sulcis-Iglesiente area of the International Choral Festival “Al sole della Sardegna”, which has seen the Municipal Administrations of the area and the participation of local choirs as active participants. The review is proposed as an action aimed at the tourist and cultural enhancement of the territory.

M° VITTORIO ORRÙ

He began his musical studies under the guidance of Maestro Pietro Allori and continued at the University of Pavia with a degree in Musicology and a Diploma in Palaeography and Musical Philology together with basic degrees in Piano and Organ at the Yahama Music Foundation. He has more than ten years’ experience in music teaching, choral conducting and the management of public and private music institutions.

The Coro Polifonico of Portoscuso was founded in 1993 thanks to the will and passion of a group of singing and polyphony lovers.

Firstly, the choir was created with a mixed formation, but after a few years it established as a female choir. Currently, the choir is formed of 20 singers and it is conducted by Fois Nadia.

The Choir has realized many concerts both in Sardinia, their homeland, as well as in Italy and in other cities of Europe. The Coro Polifonico has participated in many choral festivals, such as Music and Friends in Prague, Vienna, Festival Pusteria, Festival al Sole della Sardegna, Festival Garda Estate. They also have many relations to other choirs, establishing twinning with Italian and foreign ones, such as Krakow, Nice, Lucca, Versilia. Their repertoire ranges from medieval music to sacred and profane music from the various historical periods. They also include a variety of Gospels and Spiritual, contemporary music, excerpts from Opera, and popular songs from their beloved Sardinia’s culture and tradition.

The “Musica e Voci in Libertà” Association was founded in 2007 by a group of choral music enthusiasts to promote the beautiful and complex art of singing. Its expression is the “ANNA BAGLIVI” POUFONICA, which honors the name of a very young chorister who passed away tragically and prematurely. After various formations over time, unusual and sometimes difficult situations, she still today strives to express herself through singing, obviously at a purely amateur level. The choir has participated in various local and international events with excellent acclaim, so much so that, building on its previous experience, it participated in a new international festival in Barcelona in June 2025. The choir seeks to bring serenity to environments where suffering is unfortunately present, such as hospitals and nursing homes, even during the Christmas holidays, when loneliness and suffering are exacerbated. The choir’s conductor, Tonino Collu, its founder, began his musical studies during middle school under the guidance of Don Pietro Allori, continuing with private teachers and schools. For over thirty years, he was a parish organist and attended courses in choral conducting and choral composition at the Cagliari Conservatory. He has no academic qualifications, but only a great deal of passion and an iron will to continue his musical activity.

Formed in 2006, the choir was founded by a group of friends passionate about choral singing. The members, all amateurs, began a study program focused primarily on the performance of popular and unpublished songs in the Sardinian language composed by the director, Mariano Garau. The choir has participated in several cultural events organized by the Geomineral Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia; it has collaborated with the Iglesias Folklore Group and participated in choral music festivals in various locations on the island. After a year of intense activity, it recorded its first CD, “Boxis e Boghes in Armonia.” In 2008, in collaboration with the Iglesias City Concert Board, it performed a concert with the Tenores di Orgosolo. In 2009, it represented Sardinia at the 3rd International Choral Festival of Popular and Folkloric Singing, performing in the cities of Ariccia, Castel Gandolfo, Nemi, and Genzano. In 2009, it participated in the prestigious Concordia Vocis International Festival. On November 29th, it will perform the Missa Katharina with other choirs at the auditorium of the G.P. Da Palestrina Conservatory of Music in Cagliari, in the presence of the Dutch composer Jacob de Hann. The choir is trained and directed by Maestro Stefano Pisano.

The Folk Choir Maria Munserrara was founded in 1980 in Tratalias, a small town in the Sulcis, and has approached the singing Sardinian driven by passion and supported by an interest in the values ​​of the Sardinian culture, present in traditional folk songs.

Undoubtedly it has a long existence, among the most durable of the traditional groups of Sardinia, thirty-five.

 From the date of founding to the present he has never stopped its research activities, elaboration and proposition of vocal expressions that are part of the musical tradition in different linguistic island: campidanese, Nuoro, logudorese and obviously Sulcis.

The Choir has taken particular passion, achieving good results, the sacred songs that accompany the celebration of Mass. Service also often play at weddings and not religious.

Almost his entire repertoire, about fifty songs, runs in polyphonic form, accompanied by the talented musicians of accordion, flute and guitar.

Over the years he has had the pleasure and the honor of performing in most of the municipalities of Sardinia, and has been featured in countless music festivals in the theaters, in the streets and on television island. The choir has had the pleasure and good fortune to go beyond the boundaries of the island and represent singing traditional Sardinian beyond national borders. Like to mention the presence in Verona, Trieste, Padova, Brescia, Udine, Fumane, Borgomanero; abroad remember Grenoble, Forks Villers, Lyon, Bourg en Bresse!

Born in September 2004, and registered and established as a cultural association and musical since October 2009. The name of the choir is not random, it was linked to the cult that took place in the Valley of Antas, site of the Punic Roman Temple that located three kilometers from Fluminimaggiore. This way we wanted to highlight the historical and prehistoric importance of our territory, linking it to the musical culture to make this example of union is a good omen for all, in the hope that cultural differences are in the music a meeting point.
The Polyphonic Choir has participated both in June 2011 than in June 2013, at the International Festival HOCHPUSTERTAL in Trentino Alto Adige representing the whole of Sardinia, in September 2012 took part in the 3rd International festival of Folklore held in Pineda de Mar in Spain, and It is performed in different parts of Sardinia.
Organize important character Regional initiatives. To be highlighted: the Christmas choir festival “to the star”, and on August 07, the exhibition “a star” night with the participation of various choirs, August 27, 2013, organized a large demonstration in Fluminimaggiore called “cantendi tottusu learn “with the participation of seven choirs totaling 168 singers come from all over Sardinia.

In December 2014-2015 he has participated in Cagliari at solidarity concert called “CHRISTMAS IN Businco”. He has achieved in recent years more than 200 concerts and has a vast repertoire ranging from classic to modern, contemporary, traditional folk not only Sardinian. Counts in its repertoire pieces from Sardinian musical tradition, reworked by artistic director and premiered in various concerts.