Offers for publishers and presentors

Leading Voices: Offers for publishers, presentors and event organisers

From 6-10 July 2025, Tallinn will host Leading Voices, an event of the European Choral Association organised in cooperation with the Estonian Choral Association and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Leading Voices is a kind of symposium which during five days will inspire and train choral conductors/vocal leaders, composers/arrangers, vocal coaches, music educators/teachers, professional ensemble singers and managers of all levels and generations.

It offers participants the possibility to actively explore, experience, and discuss the future of choral music through labs, lectures, workshops, lessons, and live concerts with inspiring choirs from around the world.

The event will open with the Estonian Song Celebration, featuring more than 20.000 people singing together on the traditional shell stage.

The main venue of the event will be the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. The city, known for its vibrant musical and choral life, previously hosted the Europa Cantat festival in 2018 and is famous for its song celebrations held every five years. Notably, the XXVIII Song and XXI Dance Celebration entitled “Iseoma” will take place in Tallinn from 3-6 July 2025, just before Leading Voices begins.

The programme includes labs, lectures, workshops, masterclasses, and live concerts with inspiring choirs from around the world, as well as panels, reading sessions and lounges – the programme details are being published bit by bit on the event website -> here.

What can publishers and event organisers do at Leading Voices?

You can publish an advert in the programme booklet of the event
for sizes and prices see -> here

Advert in high quality (min 300 dpi) as .tiff, .jpg or PDF, CMYK needs to be sent to aiki.koolmeister@kooriyhing.ee latest April 30th 2025

You can ask to include flyers, brochures, pencils or other gadgets in the bags of all participants
for prices see -> here

Publishers are welcome to apply for a sponsored reading session

with all costs for the session (travel, accommodation, subsistence, fee for conductors/presenters, scores – which participants can keep or have to return)to be covered by them
with the possibility of having a table in the back of the room or in front of the room where you can display catalogues and sell scores and/or CDs after your session
with the reading session published in the regular programme (not a side-programme) of Leading Voices, with the label “sponsored reading session”
with the option for Leading Voices to combine two publishers in one reading session in the case of a lot of applications
with publishers having to pay a participation fee for their own representatives

However, we can offer the service of recommending hotels in which we will host lecturers and/or representatives of the European Choral Association, as well as the possibility to purchase tickets for the internal restaurant which will not be on sale for the public, so that you can meet people during meals.

If you would like to apply for reading session, please send your proposal with a short description of the session / the topic and the suggested conductor(s) to vyrst.varje@gmail.com latest by March 28, 2025!

Event organisers / project representatives are welcome to apply for a project presentation 10 to 15 minutes in a session in which several events/projects will be presented.

with all costs for the project presentation (travel, accommodation, subsistence, and possible fee for the presenters) to be covered by them
with one session including the presentation of several events / projects grouped according to themes / topics
There will be a session dedicated to “Singing with Additional Needs”, curated by the organisers of the project SWAN
There will be other sessions dedicated to other projects and international events
with event organisers / project representatives having to pay a participation fee for their own representatives.

If you would like to apply for project presentation, please send your proposal with a short description of the project/ event and the suggested presenter(s) to vyrst.varje@gmail.com latest by March 28, 2025!

What else can you do in leading Voices, being presentor/publisher/event organiser?

After seeing at Leading Voices 2022 that the expo was not well-visited, and discussing this with different publishers, event organisers and representatives of organisations, we decided NOT to have an Expo area at Leading Voices 2025. Instead we plan to:

Offer one or two lounges where publishers, composers and conductors can meet(they will be published in the regular programme)
Offer several other lounges that could be interesting for publishers as well as event organisers and project representatives (for example about international cooperation,for managers of professional choirs and amateur choirs, for music educators and children’s choir conductors)
Offer some panel discussions where we may involve some of you, for example a panel on copyright and performing rights issues
Have a “composers-conductors-publishers” permanent meeting space in the main building of the event, where composers and publishers can meet conductors / vocal leaders and introduce their work with them
Publishers and event organisers can also disseminate flyers where they say that they will be present in this place on certain days at certain hours, when they can also swell something or share their catalogues/brochures with interested conductors and answer questions
Offer publishers, event organisers and organisations the possibility to host a reception, recommending venues and caterers for this.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to write to us to: info@leadingvoices.ee!

Hope to see you in Tallinn!