European Song Festival for Children - 16th year

The Piccole Colonne youth choir of Trento presents the European Song Festival for Children (16th year) in Pinzolo, at the PalaDolomiti, not far from Madonna di Campiglio (Trento), on 21 (at 20.30) and 22 May 2022 (at 15.00).

The show, carried out by the children for the children, is a one-of-a-kind show.

It represents the final stage of the “Un testo per noi” ("A song for us") competition, promoted by the Coro Piccole Colonne APS, which had invited primary classes (only from Italy in this edition, due to the pandemic) to write the text of a song, coordinated by their teachers: the six winning compositions were set to music by great national artists, famous music composers - including Al Bano, Franco Fasano and many others, as well as Adalberta Brunelli, art director of the Piccole Colonne Choir and of the Festival - and became new songs.

During the two evenings, presented by Lorenzo Branchetti (the Milo Cotogno elf from the "Melevisione" national tv programme), the Piccole Colonne Choir will sing the songs created on the basis of the winning texts, and each class will animate its own song with splendid choreography. Among them will be class C, year 2, of the Clarina Primary School in Trento with "La danza del corsivo" and classes A and B, year 3, of the Giovo Primary School, with "Swag".

The other winning compositions are:

“Aqua e la vitamina C” of classes A and C (year 2) of Don Donato Panna Primary School of San Donaci - Brindisi (teacher Nadia Nisi);
“Carnevale in La minore?” of class A (year 3) of Rivanazzano Terme Primary School - Pavia (teacher Emiliana Galante);
“La ballata della gentilezza” of class B (year 4) of Ada Negri Primary School - Roma (teacher Cristiana Uselli);
“Ukubull” of class A and B (year 4) of Marcelline Primary School -Foggia (teacher Paolo Monaco).

At the Festival, the Piccole Colonne Choir will also present some songs created in the previous edition of the "A song for us" competition, which could not be concluded in 2020 with the Festival - because of the pandemic.

The aims of the competition and of the Festival:

the Festival shares the same goals as the competition, i.e. to involve primary school pupils in a project (the text of a song) to be carried out in groups, guided by their teacher, to bring children closer to music in a creative way, to create new songs for children as means of permanent communication, to promote the European dimension by creating opportunities for intercultural dialogue among those who will become the citizens of tomorrow, and to contribute to the dissemination of the Italian language (by regulation, texts written abroad must in fact contain at least one part in Italian).