Alina Orraca & Henry Leck

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Cuba/USA Mixed Choir Festival

Matanzas & HavanaChoral exchanges & cultural immersion

Combined & Individual concerts

June 2018

Your World of Music

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Dear Friends

Alina Orraca and I are delighted to join in inviting you to Cuba to sing in Voces Unidas/Voices United - a festival of great choral music for mixed choirs.

School, youth and college choirs will especially enjoy workshops, exchanges, rehearsals and two significant combined concerts with Cuban choristers…the people of two lands singing Voces Unidas! This will be a unique coming together of Cuban and U.S. musical talent.

Cuba abounds with culture and the Cuban spirit is imbued with rhythm and song. There has never been a more dynamic time to get to know Cuba; to hear its sounds and to see the friendship grow between the people of both countries.

We welcome you to Unite in Voice in this festival of spirit and goodwill!

Henry Leck Voces Unidas Co-Conductor KIconcerts Distinguished Music Advisor

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LEADERALINA ORRACAConsidered one of the most eminent teachers and educators in Cuban choral music, Alina Orraca, is a graduate of Choral Direction (1975) at the National Art School with Professor Agnes Kralovszky and at the Instituto Superior de Arte with Professor Digna Guerra.

With 22 years of experience as head of the Department of Choral Conducting at the National Art School, she founded the Chamber Choir of the ENA. In 1993 she

created the Schola Cantorum Coralina which crystallizes professional maturity and whose members also conduct amateur choirs (cantorías). This ensemble has been widely lauded and it has been a model for the creation of the current Cuban National Movement Cantorias. In 1997 Alina Orraca was appointed to preside over the Coral Juan Pablo II which develops amateur musicians in the Archidiócesis of Havana.

Professor Orraca’s remarkable artistic sensitivity and powerful creative energy has been enjoyed by the Cuban choral movement and also in countries like Nicaragua, Brazil, Sweden, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain and the United States, where she has been invited to lead workshops and courses for directors and singers.

Her awards include: the medal of Cuban Culture, the Alejo Carpentier´s Medal, the Medal for the Cuban Education, Educational Merit Diploma and Diploma for the centenary of the Golden Age. She has received numerous national and international awards: Torrevieja, Miltengberg, Trellew, D’Canto, Marktoberdolf and the great “Citá de Arezzo” Prize and finalist of the “European Grand Prix 2007”.

Professor Alina Orraca has been a member of the executive of the Music Section of the UNEAC, the committee Musicals Youth of Cuba and Member of the Artistic Committee International Federation for Choral Music (China 2012); and is currently an Honorary Member of the Nicolás Guillén Foundation and Member of the Award CUBADISCO Committee. She has been a juror for various national and international competitions such as Tolosa and the International Festival D’Canto of Venezuela, having been personality honored at the XVI edition of the Festival in 2013.

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HENRY LECKFounder & Artistic Director - Indianapolis Children’s ChoirProfessor Emeritus - Choral Music - Butler University

An internationally recognized choral director, Henry Leck is a professor emeritus in choral music at Butler University, where he served on the faculty for 27 years. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. This organization is one of the largest and most respected children’s choir programs in the world. The touring choirs of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir have performed regularly for national ACDA, MENC, OAKE and AOSA Conferences. Additionally, the ICC tours internationally every year and has sung throughout the world. Mr. Leck recently arranged and conducted the national anthem for Kelly Clarkson and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir at the Super Bowl XLVI. Mr. Leck has conducted Mixed, Men’s, Women’s, Junior High and Children’s All-State choirs and festival choirs in nearly every state. He is a frequent conductor of regional and national honor choirs, including the ACDA Southern, Southwest, North Central, Central, Western and Northwest Honors Choirs. In the spring of 2003, he conducted the ACDA National Junior High/Middle School Honor Choir in New York City and in 2011, the ACDA National Children’s Honor Choir in Chicago. On three occasions he has conducted National Honor Choirs for OAKE.

Mr. Leck has received many honors including the Sagamore of the Wabash and the State of Indiana Distinguished Hoosier Award. He and the choir received the Indiana Governor’s Arts Award which is the highest honor one can receive in the arts in Indiana. Recently Mr. Leck was named a recipient of the “Lowell Mason Fellows Award” which is the highest award given, by the National Association for Music education. He is a Paul Harris fellow and recently received the “Indiana Living Legend” award from the Indiana Historical Society.

Mr. Leck is widely known as a specialist in choral techniques, the child’s voice, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Laban and the boy’s changing voice. He has produced four teaching videos titled Vocal Techniques for the Young Singer, The Boy’s Expanding Voice: Take the High Road, Creating Artistry through Movement, Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Creating Artistry with the Male Maturing Voice. He was a lead author for the choral textbook series published by McGraw Hill/Glencoe titled Experiencing Choral Music and is the lead author of a new series of textbooks entitled Voices in Concert. He is also the editor of two nationally known choral series published by Hal Leonard Corporation and Colla Voce, Inc. Each year he has taught an international conductor’s workshop entitled Creating Artistry at Butler University. He has recently written a textbook titled, Creating Artistry through Choral Excellence. Mr. Leck received his training from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, the University of Colorado and Indiana University.

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PROGRAM

VOCES UNIDAS • VOICES UNITED

FRIDAY JUNE 22

• Depart Miami

• Arrive Cuba

• Meet your KIconcerts tour manager

• Transfer to Varadero Beach

• Check in

• Dinner daily

• Overnight Varadero Beach

SATURDAY JUNE 23

• Breakfast daily

• Rehearsal

• Enjoy the pristine Varadero beaches

• Welcome dinner

• Overnight Varadero Beach

SUNDAY JUNE 24

• Rehearsal

• Workshop with local musicians

• Exchange program (tbd)

• Individual concerts

• Overnight Varadero Beach

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MONDAY JUNE 25

• Dress Rehearsal

• Tour Matanzas, the capital of the province of Matanzas known for its poets, Afro-Cuban culture and as the ‘Venice of Cuba’ for the seventeen bridges it boasts. It is also credited as the birthplace of Rumba dancing

• Combined Gala Concert

• Overnight Varadero Beach

TUESDAY JUNE 26

• Transfer to Havana

• Tour Old Havana seeing the sights of this unique city and absorbing the lively atmosphere

• Pass by the Museo de la Revolución and Revolution square to learn about Cuba’s past

• Check in

• Overnight Havana

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 27

• Dress rehearsal

• Continue to tour Havana

• Walk through the historical city squares including Plaza de la Catedral, Plaza de Armas, Plaza San Francisco de Asis and Plaza Vieja seeing the grand architecture of this city in transformation

• Combined Gala Concert

• Overnight Havana

THURSDAY JUNE 28

• Workshops

• Exchange program (tbd)

• Individual concerts

• Farewell dinner

• Overnight Havana

FRIDAY JUNE 29

• Depart for home

** Itinerary subject to change.** Confirmation of performances is dependent upon early receipt

of performance information: biographies, pictures, recordings and repertoire

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