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Arts & Culture Credit : culturalcenter.gov.ph Top Asian choir groups to present their best, most powerful performances at CCP’s 1st Asia Choral Grand Prix 70 J uly 21, 2019 is a red-letter day for the Cultural Centre of the Philippines (CCP) when it hosts the 1st Asia Choral Grand Prix! Dubbed as ‘the event of events’ in the Asian choral competition circles, the 1st Asia Choral Grand Prix will showcase some of the best and most powerful, award-winning choral groups from Asia who have bagged top priz- es in different international choral festivals held in the continent, namely the Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival (Philippines), the Bali International Choir Festival (Indonesia), and the Singapore International Choral Festival (Singapore). It also coincides with the 4th Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival, also being held at the CCP this July 18 to 21. The late National Artist for Music, choirmaster and choral clinician Andrea O. Veneracion, for whom the Festival, now on its 4th time, was named for, was the founder of the