Jonathan Lane wins Fundació Orfeó Català international choral composition prize
We are delighted to share the news that Jonathan Lane, one of our singers and also an accomplished composer of choral works, has won a major prize in the prestigious Orfeó Català Composition Competition – which this year attracted entries from a total of 219 composers from 51 nationalities.
His setting of the words of the medieval hymn Ave Maris Stella won The Maria Font de Carulla Award for the best choral composition for a mixed choir.
The work will be premièred in the Choral Music Festival that will take place on 3rd March 2024 at the Palau de la Música Catalana, for more than a century the spectacular setting for the musical life, both national and international, of the city of Barcelona.
[Photo credit – Matteo Vecchi].
Jonathan has been with the JCS since 1991, singing in concerts, recordings and tours in dozens of festivals and competitions all over Europe and the US, including being in the winning JCS team in the Llangollen Choir of the World Competition. We have also enjoyed performing premières of some of his unaccompanied choral pieces – typically in our Christmas concerts.
Congratulations from all the JCS, Jonathan!
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