Tampere Vocal Music Festival Brings Joyous Reunion of Singers
Over five days, the Tampere Vocal Music Festival brought 1,400 singers in 70 choirs and vocal ensembles to the city.
The Tampere Vocal Music Festival, a celebration of music for choirs and vocal ensembles, was last held on 14–18 June 2023. A wholly virtual event in its previous edition in 2021, the Festival now returned to live audiences at Tampere Hall, Tampere Cathedral and other venues in the city centre. The Artistic Director of the Festival was choir conductor Kari Turunen.
The next edition of the Tampere Vocal Music Festival will take place from 11 to 15 June 2025. Registration for the Contest for Vocal Ensembles and the Chorus Review will open in January 2025. For more info, please contact music@tampere.fi
See photos from the 2023 festival in our gallery, updated during festival.
Over five days, the Tampere Vocal Music Festival brought 1,400 singers in 70 choirs and vocal ensembles to the city.
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Every other summer Tampere celebrates the diversity of the human voice at the festival of choral and ensemble singing. Since 1975 in the international atmosphere of the festival, old and new music, choir tradition and for instance beatboxing all coexist in harmony. The festival culminates in the finales of the Chorus Review and the Contest for Vocal Ensembles, where the atmosphere is palpable. In addition, workshops and free concerts draw audience interested in vocal music from around the world.