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Discantus, which has 400 members, held each year an average of 100 concerts

The Mayor, the first honorary president of the Coral Discantus, this morning attended the opening of the new headquarters opens this musical group, located on the Avenida Infante Juan Manuel, who also has rehearsal space.

The ceremony was also attended by the Councillor for Culture and European Programmes, Fatima Barnuevo, plus many members of the choir and its director, Ángel Carrillo.

The musical group, founded in 1995, currently has sixty members in its official section, which join the components of the youth sections, child and candidates, whose members are prepared thoroughly before agreeing to the choir "official" .

More than 400 members comprising the entity; including the Chamber Choir and the club members.

The next year the organization celebrated its fifteenth anniversary musical.

This afternoon will offer a concert number 840 at the Auditorium and Congress Center Victor Villegas, which will perform the work of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana."

So will culminate an intense year that have become the first choir in the region that plays in a season, the three major symphonic and choral works of music history: "The Messiah" by Handel, the " Requiem "by Mozart and" Carmina Burana "by Orff.

Throughout his meteoric career, Discantus has become a musical entity class, which each year conducts an average of one hundred concerts, not only in Spain but has also performed in Portugal, Poland, Argentina, Germany and China .

In addition to accumulating prizes and awards in various national and international competitions, his discography has already published seven works, both music century as Spanish and Latin American carols, etc.

and coral file contains more than 400 works.

Moreover, since 2001 the choir performed a series of social events in parallel with its strictly musical activity, such as concentrations of vocal technique and repertoire with renowned mounting professional voice lessons and instrument, leisure and cultural activities for members and cultural publication "Discantus Tribune."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia