THE 2003 FESTIVAL

The Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival Ltd company was established on 20 December 2001 and ran the 1st Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival in Cornwall between 1-5 May 2003 which was a great success. The Festival attracted around 28,300 people to performance events all across the county.

The Festival received Regional Arts Lottery Funding and as part of that process an independent evaluation was carried out to identify the project's successes and the lessons learned for the future. Headline results from that survey were:-

Indicator	Target	Actual
Number of choirs (local)	24	28
Number of choirs (national)	12	10
Number of choirs (international)	6	9
Number of artists performing	1,800	2,100
Number of young people involved (based on school concerts)	60	800
Number of workshops	20	20
Audience numbers (formal)	8,500	8,300
Audience numbers (informal) (mostly Eden - 18,000)	16,000	19,000
Age of participants	Various	13-91yrs
Number of informal performance venues	28	21
Number of enrolment enquiries	55	82
Number of new works commissioned (16 in composers' competition)	4	5 +16
Number of performances/viewing days	20/5	29/5
Number of singing artists' days	5,100	5,640

Other Quantifiable Results

Indicator	Result
Number of schools involved	3
Number of outreach visits	16
Number of future choir exchanges planned	4
New audience numbers/converts (estimate)	1,600 out of 29,000
Number of formal performance locations	19
Number of choirs performing with unknown choirs	48
Number of media adverts	10
Number of hotels used by visiting choirs	19

Best Overall Choir:  Revalia, Estonia.

Best Large Choir:  Bela Bartok, Hungary.

Best Cornish Choir: Holman-Climax, Cornwall.