About us

Coro del Friuli Venezia Giulia was founded in 2001 and has since performed nearly 600 concerts, including world premieres and performances across Italy and Europe. Thanks to its modular structure, the ensemble can transform from a small group suited to Renaissance and Baroque repertoire to a full symphonic choir.

The choir collaborates with renowned performers of early, classical, contemporary, jazz, and pop music, as well as with numerous European orchestras, such as Capella Savaria in Hungary, Solamente Naturali in Bratislava, Venice Baroque Orchestra, and Orchestra S. Marco for early music; FVG Orchestra, the Serbian Radio and Television Orchestra, the Ljubljana Radio and Television Orchestra and Philharmonic, Junge Philharmonie Wien, Toscanini Orchestra in Parma, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, and many others for the symphonic repertoire.

In addition to its extensive activity in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the choir has been a guest at prestigious festivals and concert seasons, including the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Società del Quartetto and Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Emilia Romagna Festival, Musikverein in Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Wien Musikwoche, Ljubljana Festival, Mittelfest, Ravenna Festival, MI.TO Festival, Stresa Festival, International Festival of the Island of Elba, Innsbrucker Festwoche der Alten Musik, Les Concerts Parisiens, Astana Festival, and many more.

The choir has worked with nearly 100 conductors, including renowned names such as Riccardo Muti, Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, Andrea Marcon, Filippo Maria Bressan, Luis Bacalov (the late Oscar-winning composer, for whom the choir performed the world premiere of Estaba La Madre, dedicated to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and Misa Tango), Bruno Aprea, Marco Angius, George Pehlivanian, John Rutter, and Uroš Lajovic. The choir has also collaborated with pop music artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Tosca, Ermal Meta, and Simone Cristicchi, performed ethnic concerts with musicians of the caliber of Jivan Gasparyan, and taken part in jazz performances with Markus Stockhausen, Enrico Rava, John Surman, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, and Glauco Venier, often premiering new works.

Since 2016, the choir has enjoyed a successful collaboration with the renowned cellist Mario Brunello, performing at major European festivals and concert seasons.

In November 2022, the choir was invited to perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, in a sold-out evening.

In January 2024, the choir participated in the revival of Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto, a globally significant event marking the centenary of composer Luigi Nono‘s birth and the 40th anniversary of the work’s premiere at its original venue, Ocean Space – Church of San Lorenzo in Venice. The event was organized by the La Biennale di Venezia Foundation in collaboration with the Luigi Nono Archive Foundation and TBA21-Academy.

In June 2024, the choir organized a cross-border concert at the Gorizia border for GO!2025, featuring over 600 choristers from Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia under the direction of John Rutter.