Hungary in Eurovision Choir

The participation of Hungary in Eurovision Choir began in Riga, Latvia, at the Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017. Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA) a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are responsible for the selection process of their participants, for their debut in 2017. The first representative choir to participate for the nation at the 2017 edition was the Bela Bartok Male Choir, who were selected internally.

Hungary
Member stationMédiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA)
National selection events
  • Internal selection
    2017
Participation summary
Appearances1
First appearance2017
Last appearance2017
For the most recent participation see
Hungary in Eurovision Choir 2017

Origins of the event

The Eurovision Choir of the Year is a new event being launched by the EBU, and the latest event to be launched since the Eurovision Magic Circus Show. The event will consist of non-professional choirs who are members of the EBU, with the inaugural contest scheduled to take place on 22 July 2017, hosted by the Latvian broadcaster Latvijas Televīzija (LTV), and to coincide with the closing ceremony of the European Choir Games 2017.[1] The event will be officially confirmed on 30 November 2016 depending on a reasonable amount of interest from active members of the European Broadcasting Union.[2]

History

On 20 March 2017, the Hungarian national broadcaster, Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap (MTVA), announced that they would be making their Choir of the Year debut at the 2017 edition in Riga, Latvia on 22 July 2017.[3]

Participation
Table key

 1st place   2nd place   3rd place   Last place 

Year Choir Song Language Place
2017 Bela Bartok Male Choir "Karádi nóták" Hungarian N/A
2019 Did not participate

Broadcasts

Commentators

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Eurovision Choir of the Year website eurovisionchoir.tv and YouTube. The Hungarian broadcaster, MTVA, will send their own commentator to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Hungarian language.[4]

Year(s) Commentator
2017 Milán Bolla
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gollark: I don't like GPUs because you should just do trillions of mathematical operations per second by hand and then sketch points very precisely.
gollark: ↑ observe, my excellent memory remembering things
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gollark: Unlike Conservapedia, it has citations so you can trust it.

See also

References
  1. Granger, Anthony (8 August 2016). "EBU to launch "Choir of the Year" contest". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  2. Trustram, Matthew. "Choir of the Year 2017". ebu.ch. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. Granger, Anthony (20 March 2017). "Hungary confirms participation in Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  4. Granger, Anthony (28 February 2017). "Eurovision Choir of the Year 2017 officially launched". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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