Miriam College Choir wins at the international choir festival in Rome

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino students from the Miriam College High School Glee Club, led by its conductor Nancy Roman, won the Diploma d’Oro Level III in the G2-Youth Choirs of Equal Voices category and the Diploma d’Oro Level II in the S3-Sacred Music Female Choir category at the 7th International Choir Festival & Competition held in Rome, Italy recently.

From the 16 competing international choirs, the Miriam College High School Glee Club and other five choirs qualified for the Grand Prize competition concert. Philippine Ambassador to Italy Domingo Nolasco attended the concert at the Basilica di Sant’Andrea della Valle to support the Filipino students. The ambassador congratulated and commended the group for making the country and the Filipinos proud. 

The group was the only choir from Asia who qualified in the competition. Other participating choirs were from Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, USA and Ukraine.