Friday, 28th of June, 20h Catedral Els Nens d'Abraham The opening concert brings together three outstanding children’s choirs from each of the three great monotheistic religions. They will sing a programme of popular songs and sacred works from each culture, and the concert will close with the first performance of a work by Feliu Gasull to words by the poet Enric Cassases. This piece will be sung by the combined choirs as a gesture in favour of peace, toleration and mutual understanding.

Saturday 29th of June, 22.30h Sant Domènec Asif Ali Khan (Pakistan) Qawwali is Sufi music from Southern Asia, here sung by one of the longest-established and best-known groups in Pakistan. The lead singer, Asif Ali Khan, has been publicly recognised by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as one of his best students. This concert will be a tribute to the great master Nusrat on the fifth anniversary of his death.

Sunday, 30th of June, 20h Catedral Discantus Discantus is a renowned women’s choir from France specialising in a cappella performance. They are famed for the great quality of their singing and for the number of works from early periods rediscovered by the group. The programme consists of a series of works dedicated to the mythical city of Jerusalem and dating from ancient times to the 13th. century.

Wednesday, 3rd of July, 20h Catedral Cors de Girona Conjunt Orquestral de Girona A choral concert with instrumental accompaniment bringing together almost all the adults’ and children’s choirs in Girona for a performance of Benjamin Britten’s cantata Saint Nicholas. The closing section of the work calls for audience participation. An interesting contribution to the Festival by singers and instrumentalists from Girona.

Tuesday, 4th of July, 20h Catedral Gabrieli Consort Victoria’s six-voice Requiem Mass or “Officium defunctorum”, composed for the funeral of the Dowager Empress Maria of Austria. The mass will be performed in its original version, such as it would have sounded when conducted by a 16th- or 17th-century maestro di cappella.

Friday, 5th of July, 22.30h Escales de la Catedral The Golden Gate Quartet The great tradition of Afro-American religious music has its beginnings in the early 18th. century, when slaves in America began to convert to Christianity. The Golden Gate Quartet, founded in 1934, is an exponent of this tradition and is one of the most popular groups singing Gospel music and Negro spirituals.

Saturday, 6th of July, 22.30h Escales de la Catedral Cants religiosos gitanos de Catalunya i Romania The members of Tekameli are descendents of the gypsies who at the beginning of the 17th. century emigrated from the part of Catalonia south of the Pyrenees to the Roussillon region now in Southern France. Over the years they came to form a numerous settlement in the Saint Jacques district of Perpignan. In the late 1950s they adapted their popular and sacred vocal music to the rumba, a musical style with Antillean and Southern Spanish influences, made popular by the gypsy community in Barcelona. Gabi Lunca has become almost an institution in Romania. Inspired by the spiralling movements of his country dances or deep in the smoky atmosphere of the cabarets of Bucharest, the performance of the gypsy lautaris brings total involvement to both body and soul, thanks in part to the artists’ profound knowledge of the music, but due mainly to their special style of performance, at once rudimentary and sophisticated. After many years, Gabi Lunca decided to specialise in Evangelical religious music, while maintaining the traditional forms of his art.

Sunday, 7th of July, 20h Catedral Capella Reial de Catalunya Considered to be one of the most interesting sources of medieval music and poetry, there are over 400 Cantigas de Santa María, mainly works of a religious nature recounting miracles wrought by the Holy Virgin, although there are a few which also include popular tales of a picaresque or anticlerical nature.

Sunday, 7th of July, 22.30h Sant Domènec Les Musiciens du Nil (Egypt) Les Musiciens du Nil belong to a minority community of Nubian gypsies in Upper Egypt. Thanks to their performances of religious and secular music, they have gained a reputation as the most representative ensemble in Arab music. They were discovered in 1975 by the German musicologist Alain Weber, and worked with Peter Gabriel performing the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s film, The Last Temptation of Christ.

Thursday, 2nd of July, 20h Claustre de la Catedral Montse Massaguer, Piano The well-known pianist from Girona will perform some of the best religiously-inspired works in the piano repertoire.

Wednesday, 10th of July, 20h Catedral Cor Lieder Camera The Lieder Càmera choir was founded in 1990 by its conductor Josep Vila with the aim of performing a cappella and accompanied works to the highest possible standards. Most of the twenty-five members of the choir have considerable experience singing in other renowned choral ensembles. The Requiem by Maurice Duruflé is a work that has become a landmark in the vocal repertoire of the 20th. century.

Tuesday, 11th of July, 20h Catedral The Cardinall's Mussick Andrew Carwood is one of the few professional artists active today who combine choral singing with a career as a soloist, as well as conducting his own ensemble, The Cardinall’s Musick. The programme for this concert includes some of the finest works of choral polyphony, the most noteworthy being the mass by the great Italian composer Palestrina. The other works in the programme are also by Italian composers – music for Holy Week from the baroque period.

Friday, 12th of July, 22.30h Sant Domènec Munadjat Yulchieva (Uzbekistan) Central Asia was for thousands of years a melting-pot of a variety of cultures. The reigning dynasties left a heritage of refined artistic activity, and for more than five hundred years the courts of Bukhara and Khiva were highly noted for their music. When Transoxiana and Turkestan were converted to Islam, the music in the region absorbed the influence of the Middle East while maintaining the main characteristics of the earlier Persian and Arabic music. Monahat Yulchieva is considered to be the most representative singer of the Uzbeks . The Shassh Maquam she will perform at this concert is one of the most beautiful examples of this music.

Saturday, 13th of July, 22.30h Sant Domènec Ustad Mahwash, (Afganistan) The singer Mahwash, the first Afghan woman to be named Artist of the Year (1970) and the first to receive the honorary title of Ustad (‘master’), accompanied by the Ensemble Kabul, will offer us a journey through the various musical traditions of that multiethnic country. A closing concert full of symbols and charged with special significance.