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The Internatinal Festival of Karditsa is a leading artistic event in Greece and worldwide due to its unique regulation.  The philosophy of the Festival aims not only at the artistic approach but also at a musical- pedagog, social and even more at a political approachment of the different countries of the participatin choirs.  The steady ambition of the Festival is to promote the choral music and let old monophinic and polyphonic music is discovered by conductors, singers and audience.

So far at the International Choral Festival of Karditsa have paticipated important choirs from all corners of the Earth, prominent orchestras and leading soloist.  Considered the most important INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL of GREECE, with a lot of great participation of foreign choirs.  This Choral Festival, in which have taken place leading choirs from all over the world, great orchestras and prominent soloists, it is organized since 1983 in Karditsa and it is a premier cultural event, that is implemented under the artistic direction of Conductor, Prof. Nikos Efthimiadis.  Additional features it includes a regulation that might be unique on a global scale, because it ensures the simultaneous realization of many first performances on demand by Greek and foreign composers helping on that way the contemporary music creation.  Also provides a very large number of performers who come from every corner of Europe and the world.

The originality of the festival in the world are:

• The choirs that take part are required to present specifics works under the control of an International Committee, which composed of recognized value foreign and Greek conductors, representatives of the various music schools.  At the end of each evening is a special discussion with the jury, the directors of the choirs receive suggestions for improvement etc.
• The choirs are obligated to perform and interpret among other works ancient Greek, Byzntine, Gregorian and Modern Greek music.
• At the end of each evening, all the choirs together or selected members, interpret a work of Greek or foreign composer at first performance, that is conducted every time a member of International Jury.  In this way the conductors and choirs, Greek and foreign, have the opportunity to work together for a better preperation of joint projects, to work laboratory under the direction of distinguished conductors to a very interesting but unknown works reaping many technicals benefits, while renewing and their repertoire.
• These works of Greek and foreign composers are writtern by order for the International Festival of Karditsa specifically.
• The INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF KARDITSA includes many other events consisted of: evenings of opera, symphonic music at the monastery of Corona, bands performances, exhibitions of paintings and engravigns etc.