THE VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA, OPERA SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL
Concerts in Venice 2024 / 2025 all year around
THE MUSICIANS AND OPERA SINGERS OF THE VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Since 1998, we has developed a fruitful collaboration between the Vivaldi Festival in Venice and the Vivaldi Festival in Sweden. Our musicians and singers are active in various symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, baroque ensembles and opera houses, including at La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, Opera di Roma, Opera da Camera di Venezia, Camerata Mandolino Classico and at the Gothenburg Opera, Malmö Opera as well as in the orchestras Venice Baroque and L'Offerta Musicale in Venice.
These musicians and opera singers regularly gives concerts abroad as well as in some of Venice's most prestigious concert venues, the Cà Rezzonico palace on the Grand Canal, the Basilica dei Frari church and the famous Vivaldi church - "Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pietà", where Vivaldi was active during the 18th century. Furthermore, the ensemble is involved during the "Carnevale di Venezia" carnival with performances in the Venetian palaces where an international audience gathers. The ensemble has gained international recognition as skilled interpreters of Venetian Baroque music and the ensemble has made many and extensive tours in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Spain, Japan and Italy.
MIMMIE GRENNÄS & LARS FORSLUND
THE VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL
is part of a much larger operation. This enables us to achieve things far beyond the possibilities of an organisation which is only for the choirs. We look forward to benefitting the chiors and its singers worldwide. We have over 40 years of experience in organising concerts, concert tours and festivals. Our years of international experience have given us the expertise we need to confidently organise and manage concerts, festivals, seminars and master classes. The vast knowledge base of the Venice Choral Festival includes the resources of its sister organisations, the Vivaldi Festival and the Vivaldi Opera Festival in Sweden, Vivaldi Choral Festival and the Venice Mandolin Festival in Italy. It places us in acompletely unique position to work with you to realise your own personal goals.
WE ARE PROGRESSIVE AND OPEN-MINDED
Our activities are open to everyone, from the beginner to the professional performer. Everybody can benefit from our experience, contacts and expertise. Our progressive approach keeps us up to date with the larger international concert scene.
Lars Forslund - Artistic Director
on behalf of the Venice Choral Festival Team
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH
LARS FORSLUND - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
LARS FORSLUND - mandolin
has received international recognition as a skilled interpreter of Venetian baroque music. His ensemble Camerata Mandolino Classico has made numerous and extensive tours in Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The ensemble has been critically acclaimed and hugely appreciated by standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience. Lars Forslund is Artistic Director of the Venice Choral Festival, the Vivaldi Festival and the Vivaldi Opera Festival in Sweden, Vivaldi Choral Festival and the Venice Mandolin Festival in Italy. Lars lived in Rome as a child, studied Italian in Florence and lives since 1998 part of the year in Venice.
JAPAN AND THE MANDOLIN
In the eighties and nineties, worked and studied Lars in Kobe in Japan for the Master Yasuo Kuwahara, and also learned the Japanese language. Then they developed a long partnership, in the field of mandolin music, between Japan and Sweden. 1983 played Lars and Yasuo in Das Deutsche Zupforchester under the leadership of Siegfried Beherend and with Takashi Ochi as concertmaster.
MANDOLIN PLAYING IN SWEDISH TV 1982
Lars founded Sweden's first international mandolin festival at Visingsö in Sweden. At the festival he made a recording with the mandolin and guitar orchestra Musica Festiva. Music by Vivaldi from the disc became the theme song of SVT's Italian language course “Buon giorno Italia”. Most recently Lars was mandolin soloist at the Venice Carnival
2016 and cicerone, along with Ann Lundberg, in a popular television program by SVT.
LARS FORSLUND - MANDOLIN
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BEETHOVEN
Review from Venice
A review from Venice at the Basilica dei Frari:
“The musicality of Lars Forslund was revealed especially in the Adagio of the Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and harpsichord by Beethoven, which was rendered with subtlety of phrasing and subtle nuances of expression".Letizia Michielon, Il Gazzettino
SOME OF THE MUSICIANS AND OPERA SINGERS OF THE VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL
ANGELICA SELMO - HARPSICHORD VIRTUOSO
LARS FORSLUND, MARIO & LORENZO PARRAVICINI PLAYING SCARLATTI
DOMENICO SCARLATTI SONATA PER MANDOLINO E BASSO CONTINUO
Review from Venice
A review from Venice at the Palazzo Querini:
“Forslund was the master of about every nuance of dynamics and tone you could imagine in the mandolin, as well as some you might not. He could make the instrument sharp and piercing, as well as muted and dark". Michel Miller Berkshire Review
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH
THE VENICE CHORAL FESTIVAL
Concerts in Venice 2024 / 2025 all year around
Please contact us with your questions about The Venice Choral Festival.
We have much more to tell you about the organisation, soloists, choirs,
orchestras, concerts, the gala evening & carnival party and so on.
We are very happy to try to answer your questions.
Don't hesitate to ask everything you wonder!
To apply or find out more about The Venice Choral Festival
E-mail: info@choral.events
Phone + 46 736 32 87 44
