Tenso
Tenso is the European network for professional chamber choirs. It was founded in 2002 by conductors Laurence Equilbey and Daniel Reuss in order to reinforce, extend and promote choral practice in Europe and to contribute to the creation of new, innovative repertoire and ways to present it.
By combining the joint efforts and achievements of the most prominent European chamber choirs and making their results available within the context of a European network, Tenso wants to contribute to the active heritage of choir music in Europe.
By involving amateur and youth choirs in their projects, the spin-off is extended to the large community of choral singers and audiences for choral music all over Europe.
Tenso activities:
- collect and publicize the work done by member choirs in the creation, discovery and distribution of existing and new repertoire for chamber choir, and make it available via internet
- commission new music for chamber choir from the most outstanding living European composers
- organize expertise exchange on several subjects of choir management, such as cooperation with amateurs and children and innovative multi-disciplinary projects
- organize expertise exchange for singers and conductors
- organize the annual edition of the Tenso Days, an international choir festival aimed at a large and general audience of music lovers, hosted in turn by the members of the network. The next edition will take place in Amsterdam in October 2009..