Nordic Student Singers' Summit

Nordic Students Singers' Summit – NSSS (Swedish: Nordisk Studentsångarstämma) is a choral festival arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.

History

Since 1987, Nordic and Baltic University choirs have gathered every third year in a choral festival. The first summit took place in 1987 in Linköping, Sweden. It was a renewal of an old tradition from the 19th century when the Scandinavian choirs travelled through Scandinavia by train or boat to visit each other.

The first summit focused on pedagogical and social events. From 1996, when 1,400 singers performed Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in Copenhagen and in 1999 in Tallinn Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the summits have become more of public events. In Lappeenranta in Finland two pieces were premièred; Symphony No. 111 by Leif Segerstam and Das Lied des Wassers by Marcus Fagerudd. Both under the direction of Leif Segerstam.

Purpose

The purpose of NSSS is "to gather Nordic and Baltic academic choirs in forms of friendship and joy and events of high musical and social quality. NSSS is arranged every third year by local arrangers.”

NSSS 1987–2020
gollark: You may NOT intentionally destroy the constitution in ANY WAY.
gollark: No.
gollark: You can burn heretical books, right?
gollark: Testing.
gollark: The latest incident was the self-defense protocol activating.

References
  1. "Fleire norske festivalar og idrettsarrangement blir avlyst – NRK Kultur og underholdning". web.archive.org (in Norwegian). 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-04-07.



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