Youth Choir BALSIS

The Youth Choir BALSIS is an award-winning mixed youth choir in Riga, Latvia. The choir consists of approximately 50 young persons from Riga and other cities of Latvia who are permanent singers with the choir. The choir performs about 70 concerts every year in Latvian concert halls, churches and open-air venues.

Ints Teterovskis has been the artistic director of the Youth Choir BALSIS since 1998. BALSIS has released 18 compact disc albums. The Rolling Stone magazine has declared the album Christmas Joy in Latvia – Latvian Christmas Cantatas from 2008, created in collaboration with the New York Latvian Choir and the New Chamber Orchestra of Riga, as one of the twenty five greatest Christmas albums of all time.[1]

Awards

The Youth Choir BALSIS has participated at the World Choir Games, and won gold in the folk music category and silver in the chamber choir category at the 2010 World Choir Games in Shaoxing, China.[2]

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References
  1. Jon Dolan (19 December 2012). "The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. "Youth Choir Balsis from Riga". artisttrove.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

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