News

23 August 2010

Final thoughts after the festival

The Pécs Cantat 2010 festival has ended. On 22nd August the festival participants left the Dóm Square, the hostels, the workshop venues and the city,
We have closed a week full of singing,  sunshine and friendship. We would like to thank all the participants for choosing Pécs in 2010 and for turning the city into the Singing Cultural Capital of Europe!

We will upload more photos and videos to our website and to our Facebook page in the days to follow. We are working on the festival DVDs too, we will inform you about ordering conditions soon!

The festival ended successfuly thanks to the beautiful weather and to the great interest towards the event. We would like to thank everyone who have worked with us to make Pécs Cantat 2010 happen!


We would like to thank once more the workshop leader conductors for their enthusiastic leadership and for the knowledge they shared with the participants!

We are greatly thankful for all the professional advice and help from Europa Cantat, the Hungarian Choral Castle -Pomáz Music Castle Nonprofit Ltd. and from C.Szalai Ágnes.

We are glad that we ended a successful cooperation and received support from the University of Pécs, the Pécs2010 European Capital of Culture Management Centre, Hungarofest,the NKA - National Cultural Fund, the Ministry of National Ressources, the Hungarian Tourism Plc, OTP Bank, Pécs Brewery, Coca-Cola, Pannon Power, Tettye Forrásház, Funzine Magazine.

We would like to thank 2pixels for all the graphic design works, Limelight Projections for the wonderful visual show on the Cathedral and to Mevid Plc. for the great festival meals and to Rideg Imre for the unforgettable Festival Pálinka!

Finally we would like to thank for the great help we received from more than 50 Hungarian and 2 international volunteers! Their contribution to the festival is greatly appreciated!

We hope that all festival participants had the chance to discover Pécs and we would like to invite everyone to return to our city. Pécs welcomes you any time!

The Pécs Cantat Organization

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