with Heather J. Buchanan

TOUR PROSPECTUS

PASSION OF ITALY2017

Individual concerts Combined Festival Concerts

Sing Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica Tour Venice, Florence & Rome

JULY 2017

Your World of Music

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Dear Friends

Imagine performing in Italy - the country with arguably the greatest Western musical heritage. Passion of Italy is a choral festival for fine singers to perform with their own choirs in individual concerts, as well as combining to form the Festival Gala Choir. Building on the tremendous success of the Sydney Opera House festival we staged in 2014, I am honored to lead this exciting Italian choral adventure.

Be transported back in time by touring the Vatican, Coliseum and the Roman Forum as well as the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and the surrounding piazzas. You can also consider options to continue touring to Florence (birthplace of the Renaissance) and Venice. Your musicians will create a lifetime of musical memories by singing in St Peter’s Basilica and in one of the great Rome cathedrals, as well as more intimate settings.

I would love you to consider joining me in Italy in July 2017 along with other passionate and dedicated choristers. Please contact me for more information about the musical elements and my friends from KIconcerts regarding the tour aspects.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Heather J. Buchanan Artistic Director & Conductor

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LEADERHEATHER J. BUCHANANwww.HeatherJBuchanan.com

Australian born conductor Heather J. Buchanan is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, where she conducts the 160-voice Chorale, 60-voice University Singers, and 24-voice Vocal Accord. Choirs under her direction have won critical acclaim for their “heartfelt conviction,” “new-minted enthusiasm and vibrancy,” being a “marvel of diction, tuning and rhythm”, “impeccable dynamics and

diction,” “vibrant sound,” and for singing with the “crispness and dexterity of a professional choir.” Over the last decade the Montclair State choral program has developed an enviable reputation for artistic excellence and creative programming in the US and Europe. Dr. Buchanan’s choirs have collaborated with a variety of renowned artists and composers including Meredith Monk, Mícheál ÓSúílleabháin, Joseph Flummerfelt, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Choir, the Studiochor of the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz, Austria, and composers Tarik O’Regan, Robert Livingston Aldridge, Chen Yi, Sarah Hopkins and Martin Sedek. The MSU Chorale’s masterwork performances with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra include Verdi Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mahler Symphony No. 3; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Howard Shore’s Academy Award winning score The Lord of the Rings Symphony under the batons of Neeme Järvi, Jacques LaCombe, and John Maucceri. The University Singers recorded Songs of Ascension with Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble on the prestigious ECM label under legendary producer Manfried Eicher, released May 2011. This collaboration was included in the Producer of the Year section of the 2012 Grammy nominations.

Dr. Buchanan holds degrees from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University (Australia), Westminster Choir College of Rider University (USA), and a PhD from the University of New England (Australia). A licensed Andover Educator, she specializes in the teaching of Body Mapping and somatic pedagogy for musicians. Her guest conducting highlights include the 2007 Dvorák Festival in Prague and Vienna, the World Premiere performance of Madison’s Descent, preparing the opera chorus for the regional premier of Elmer Gantry, and the US premiere of a new production of A Ceremony of Carols with famed British choreographer Richard Alston and his dance company in December 2012 for Benjamin Britten’s centennial. Dr. Buchanan’s publications include co-editing the landmark GIA choral series Teaching Music through Performance in Choir, the DVD Evoking Sound: Body Mapping & Gesture Fundamentals, and octavos in the Evoking Sound Choral Series (GIA).

A vibrant teacher, dynamic performer, and passionate musicians’ health advocate, Dr. Buchanan is in demand as a guest conductor, somatic educator, and choral clinician in the US and abroad. She resides in Princeton Junction, New Jersey with her husband Peter and daughter Paige.

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ROME FESTIVAL

MONDAY, JULY 3• Departure

TUESDAY, JULY 4• Arrive in Venice

• Meet your KIconcerts representative

• Check in

• Dinner daily

• Overnight Mestre

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5• Breakfast daily

• Transfer to Tronchetto Pier

• Sail to Venice

• Guided visit of the historical center of Venice including seeing the famed St. Mark’s Basilica, the Doge’s Palace decorated by 16th

century artists such as Titian and Tintoretto, the Bridge of Sighs and Piombi Prison

• Concert

• Return to Mestre

• Overnight Mestre

PROGRAM

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THURSDAY, JULY 6• Return to Venice

• Explore the pathways, waterways and sights of this lagoon community from where the Venetians ruled

the waterways for over a millennium

• Transfer to Montecatini

• Check in

• Overnight Montecatini

FRIDAY, JULY 7• Visit the Leaning Tower of

Pisa

• Tour Tuscany

• Concert

• Overnight Montecatini

SATURDAY, JULY 8• Tour the magnificent city of

Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance. Visit the Piazza Del Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria

• Visit Academia to view

Michelangelo’s masterpieces including ‘David’

• Explore Florence

• Overnight Montecatini

PROGRAM

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PROGRAM

SUNDAY, JULY 9• Transfer to Rome via Siena or

Assisi • Check in

• Overnight Rome

MONDAY, JULY 10• Combined rehearsal

• Tour the breathtaking Colosseum and the Roman Forum

• Festival welcome dinner

• Overnight Rome

TUESDAY, JULY 11• Combined rehearsal

• Guided walking tour of the historical centre of Rome including Trevi Fountain, Spanish

Steps, Piazza Navona and Piazza Campo de’ Fiori

• Individual concert options

• Overnight Rome

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12• Enjoy a day in Vatican City – a

city state in the center of Rome – the heart of the Roman Catholic religion

• Tour the Vatican Museums – highlight of which is the never

to be forgotten Sistine Chapel with its breathtaking frescos by Michelangelo

• Combined choir sings Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica (tbd)

• Overnight Rome

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THURSDAY, JULY 13• Dress rehearsal

• Explore Rome

• Return to hotel, downtime, change

• Arrive at gala concert venue

• Individual performances and Festival Gala Concert

• Overnight Rome

FRIDAY, JULY 14• Transfer to airport and return

home

SATURDAY, JULY 15• Arrive home

** Itinerary subject to change.

** Confirmation of performances is dependent upon early receipt of performance information: biographies, pictures, recordings and repertoire

PROGRAM

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PACKAGE DETAILS

INCLUSIONS

• Round-trip airfare from Australia, economy class

• Air taxes and fuel surcharges

• Private motor coach throughout with driver

• 3.5 star accommodations, based on double occupancy

• Breakfast and dinner daily

• Professional tour escort throughout tour

• All scheduled sightseeing and entrance fees

• Concert organization and promotion listed in itineraries

• Group tips

EXCLUSIONS (optional)

• Single room supplements

• Travel insurance

• Allocation of specific seat assignments on flights

• Meals other than specified in the itinerary

• Excess baggage

• Personal expenses, eg. drinks, laundry, phone calls

• Any other items not mentioned in inclusions above

PRICE NOTES

• All prices are in AUD, projected for 2017 and are subject to change

• They are based on an exchange rate of $1AUD = 0.65EUR and a minimum of 40 paying travelers

• They may increase if there are significant changes in fuel surcharges/air travel taxes

• One free position is offered for each 20 paying passengers buying the full package outlined above, not including the “Exclusions” outlined above

• Once you have expressed your interest in participating, we will provide you with a price based on travel from and to your preferred airport

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