Choir of the World At Llangollen

Saturday 10 July

The Pavarotti Trophy

Since 1987, the Eisteddfod has held this competition to determine the outright winner of the five choral categories.  The choirs placed first in the Mixed, Barbershop/Close Harmony, Male, Female, and Chamber competitions will be invited to perform at the Saturday evening concert of the International Eisteddfod*.  At this concert, one of them will be designated Choir of the World at Llangollen by the festival's international panel of adjudicators. There will be a prize of £3,500 and the premier international Pavarotti Trophy for the winning choir. At this final stage, choirs will be asked to present a varied, well-contrasted programme (of no more than 12 minutes' duration) of music of their own choice.

*subject to standard and to the rules of the Choir of the World competition.
 
Applications were accepted from groups to represent the following countries and regions in the 2009 International Eisteddfod:

Albania, Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Chechnya, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Iceland, India, Italy, Kurdistan (England), Latvia, Lithuania, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Sardinia, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (England), Ukraine, Ukraine (England), USA and Wales.