Pasted Graphic 7

"Do not watch every separate step; only by looking far you will find the right way".
Dag Hammarskjöld

Vox Pacis - The Voice of Peace was concieved from a desire to create a meeting of cultural and spiritual understanding and to create a dialogue. After recent inflamed conflicts that have taken place and new conflicts that continue to plague Mother Earth, recently accentuated by the so-called “Mohammed cartoons”, the thought arose: Can a cultural meeting build bridges in the hearts of mankind in order to find new openings that reunite? Can the most sacred within every culture and individual meet an oneness with “The Other”? We believe that through the medium of music, and with the composer´s range of vision, we can seek to find paths that are open and not closed. If different voices and choirs can unite on a physical and metaphysical level and make the impossible possible, then we will have achieved something!

The concept is both musically and conceptually challenging. How can one, musically, weave together voices and choirs from different traditions without one becoming more dominant at the others cost? How can one create this miracle? Can inviduality and unitedness meet? We wish to investigate this further during the process of realizing Vox Pacis.

2008 has been designated by the European Union as the Year of Cultural Diversity. The Olympic Games in Beijing will also take place. In short, 2008 will be a year of important international meetings, so why not add Vox Pacis to this list, since it is a truly international musical festival.

Duration of the Vox Pacis concert: approx 130 minutes

The Choral Work: will be divided into two parts:

Part 1 will consist of choir singers from each of the choirs represented, who will sing their “favourite hymns” to be rythmically co-ordinated by the artistic director, the conductor and the leaders of the respective choir. Various soloists and instrumentalists will also perform.

Part 2 will consist of the performing of a specially commissioned cantata "A Challange to Humanity"(20 minutes of duration) where all the represented religions´ song techniques will be reflected in a unite compostion. .