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Coro de Camara Adrogué was created in 1974 by Carlos Calleja. Marcelo Ortiz Rocca has conducted the choir since 1982..
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The Choir´s activity has been declared of Cultural Interest by the Almirante Brown's Municipality, province of Buenos Aires. Adrogué is the main town of the Almirante Brown´s district.
It has offered more than four hundred concerts in the main halls and auditories of Buenos Aires and the country such as: the Buenos Aires "Teatro Colón" Golden Hall, the Buenos Aires City Cultural Center, the General San Martin Cultural Center, National Cervantes Theater, Nuestra Señora de la Merced Basilica, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Basilica, Golden Hall of La Plata's Municipality, "Pasos Perdidos" Hall of the National Congress, Auditorium of Belgrano, San Isidro Cathedral, Blanco Fernández Museum, Enrique Larreta Museum.
In 1996, at the XIIIth International Choir Competition "Franz Schubert" in Vienna, Austria, the choir wins the first prize in the "mixed choir" category and the Blaguss International special prize granted by the jury to the best interpretation in a work in the competition. Until today this is only American choir that has won this competition. The same year it won the first prize in the Buenos Aires Choral Competitive Meetings, where 64 choirs competed.
Between 1994 and 1997, the Coro de Cámara Adrogué sang at the "Music and Prayer" cycle of the Archbishopric of Buenos Aires performing religious works: Christmas Oratorium op12 by Camille Saint Saëns (published in CD), Requiem in Re m by Anton Bruckner, Mass in Ab-minor D.678 by Franz Schubert, the "Salve Regina" Mass of G. P. da Palest rina (published in CD), and the Mass in C-M op. 86 of L. Van Beethoven, this last one as part of the Xth Cycle of Sacred Music Concerts at the San Isidro Cathedral.
From 1999 the Choir has become a member of the International Federation of Choral Music (IFCM)
For further information about the Choir history, please take a look at the Cronology.
