TT Music Festival Association – Music Festival Opening Ceremony

Opening Night – Sunday 1st March

The  Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival 2020 kicks off with a grand night of competition on March 1st, 2020 at 6:00 pm at Queen’s Hall, home of the Festival.

Not only will patrons will be treated to a night of keen COMPETITION for the top prize in Ladies’ and Gents’ oratorio (classes OP-A3 and OP-A4: sacred text set to dramatic music), but opening night will feature stellar performances by some of Trinidad and Tobago’s established acts – our national orchestra, the dynamic choir Jeunes Agape, pianist Johanna Chuckaree, and more! Not to be missed.

Tickets cost $150.00 and are available at the Queen’s Hall Box Office from Thursday February 27th, 2020.

 

The Festival

From March 1 – 28, 2020 Trinidad and Tobago’s finest emerging talent takes centre stage for Music Festival 2020, a celebration of folk, classical and calypso music.

This year we brand the festival using local adjudicators of high repute and bring in international ones – Jiselle Rouet from the United States and Bryan Husband from the United Kingdom for the Championships.

N.B.Local adjudicators will be at each Centre

Themed days of competition at each Venue: Choral/Vocal; Steelpan, Piano, Winds                        and Strings

Venues: Queen’s Hall, Naparima Bowl, Tobago

Discounted prices for Seniors/Students/School Groups

Exciting Championships March 21 – 28,2020.

For further information go to:ttmusicfestival.org

The Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival 1947 – 2020. A legacy of excellence.

 

Background Info

The Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival Association grew out of the Trinidad and Tobago Biennial Music Festival. Established in 1946 by Helen May Johnson as a celebration of classical music, one of the oldest national music festival in the English-speaking Caribbean. Starting largely as a choir festival featuring several school participants, the Music Festival blossomed into a showcase of more than 60 categories of music, featuring more than 800 competitors each year over a two-month period (February to March). The Festival provides a national forum for musical talent to be cultivated, it has become almost a rite of passage for generations of Trinidad and Tobagonians; and it has opened its doors to participants from other countries, usually from the English-speaking Caribbean. Several of the Festival’s participants have gone on to create a name for themselves internationally, no doubt in part due to the work of the Festival. Over its 73-year history, the contribution of the Festival to both local and international arts and culture has been both impressive and very evident. The crowning national achievement of the Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival Association is the building of Queen’s Hall.

In 1972, the Trinidad and Tobago Music Festival Association (“the Association”) was incorporated by an Act of Parliament and given the responsibility of managing the Biennial Music Festival and all other music festivals in Trinidad and Tobago. It is mandated with the responsibility for promoting the appreciation and practice of music throughout the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The Association is an umbrella body comprised of three “chapters” representing North Trinidad, South Trinidad and Tobago, respectively. These come together to form a Central Committee which oversees the affairs of the festival and association.

Follow this link for the 2020 Music Festival Competition Schedule at all 3 venues – Queen’s Hall, Naparima Bowl and Tobago:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12BLbXn1BQw1AALJBa7Q5xK8PgGPPu8Kd/view