• Membership is open to professional chamber choirs of between 12 and 40 singers.
• The conductor and the majority of the singers should have completed a formal (conservatory) musical education.
• The choirs should be backed up by a professional organization which demonstrates the following:
- a clearly defined division of tasks between performers and organization.
- year-round activity (thus excluding ad hoc / project-oriented organizations)
- sustainability – choirs should have existed for more than three seasons and plan to exist for three seasons ahead.
- a significant number of a cappella / small accompaniment programmes
- their “own” concert series.
• Repertoire should have significant focus on contemporary music.
• Choirs should regularly present premieres, commission works and present programmes featuring contemporary music (1950-present).
Annual contribution
Full members and candidate members :
€ 350 for organizations with an annual budget lower than € 500 000
€ 550 for organizations with an annual budget between € 500 000 and € 1 000 000
€ 750 for organizations with an annual budget higher than € 1 000 000
• Associate members : € 150
• Individual members : € 25
next Tenso Members Meeting 2011
Paris, Saturday 18 June 2011
Applications for membership can be sent to the Board, that will forward the application to the plenary members meeting for approval.
Contact Babette Greiner, info @ tenso-vocal.eu.
download the draft statutes of Tenso Network Europe association.