last saturday 12 from November to 19 hours was held at the El Teular Cultural Center in Cocentaina. 42 Edition of the Fira de Tots Sants Choral Competition the choir being the winner Actea Women's Choir of Barcelona which has also obtained the Audience Award with a large majority of votes.
Actea Cor Femení get this way, in addition to the €3,000 for the first prize and the €600 for the Audience Award, a place for him VI Firacor Awards which will be held in 2025. Additionally, and as a novelty of this edition of the Contest, will also have a place to participate in the National Choral Singing Grand Prize next year.
The Jury awarded second position to Burgos Interlude Choir, who takes the €1,800 Second Prize, while the third position was for Griñón CSA White Voices who received €1,200 for that Third Prize. The new award that is awarded from this year to the best director, endowed with €500, was awarded to Javier Grande, from the Interlude Choir.
The three choirs have performed the work La Pau, composed by the Basque musician Xabier Sarasola about a poem by Marc Granell. For more than twenty-five years, the organization has commissioned a piece in Valencian with the aim of disseminating choral music written in this language., being the only choral competition in the Valencian Community that promotes this action.
The contest has been hosted by the journalist and television presenter Ajo Valls and presided over by the mayor of Cocentaina, Mireia Estepa, Raul Belda, Contest coordinator, by various local and provincial authorities, and by the president of the Cor de Cambra Discantus, Lluís Vercet.
During the jury deliberation period, composed of Nadia Stoyanova, Ana Luisa Chova, Juan F. Ballesteros, Luis Gil, Xabier Sarasola and Josep Robert Sellés as jury secretary, The Valencian tenor quartet performed with great success Quattrocento Voce.
The winning choir finished the event by coming back on stage to perform one of the songs from their performance., thus closing the 676 edition of the Fair of All Saints in Cocentaina.