Jugendchor «Nubah», Spain
Some forty lovers of choral music got together in Granada to launch an ambitious new choral project and Coro Nubah was born. The choir has a choirmaster in the person of Alberto Palacín, a professor at Granada’s Real Conservatorio “Victoria Eugenia,” but otherwise is self-governing, with many of its members combining their development as choral singers with their professional training at the university or conservatoire. True to its cross-cultural vision, however, Coro Nubah also welcomes singers from very different backgrounds. After all, providing an inclusive space for socialization through singing is just as much a part of its core mission as is encouraging the creation and performance of innovative new compositions, especially by young Andalusian composers. Not that the choir’s repertoire is exclusively modern; on the contrary, it ranges from Renaissance polyphony to complex contemporary works, from commissioned arrangements of Christian, Sephardic, and Andalusí (medieval Arabic) music to electronic soundscapes.