Welcome to the Associazione Corale "Ora e' tempo di gioia" website. At the moment we still haven't got the whole website translated in English. In order to give you a bit of information about us here you will find a brief description of our choir. From the italian pages you will be able to know when our concerts will take place and how to contact us.

During the fall of 1995,  at the shadow of the San Bernardino Church in Torino, a small group of friends, almost playing, starts discovering the magic and the enchantment of polyphony, after having learnt a quattro voci dispari the song "Ora č tempo di gioia”.  The idea of creating a Chorus and of giving joy through it participating to solidarity projects raises.

Since the first shy concerts in Piedmont the chorus has started to go around Italy and outside, living exciting moments like the audience in Piazza S.Pietro in Roma, during the 2000 Jubilee and the concerts in Assisi, Firenze, Venezia, Egna (BZ) e Pagani (SA) to arrive to Avignon,  Paris and Saltzburg

During these years the chorus has discovered the passion for various musical genres, starting from the Classical and passing through the Gospel, the Spiritual, the italian and foreign folk music,  arriving to the musical.  Ideally  it started traveling through the world, enriching its repertory with songs who present the style and the folklore of the five continents. 

This spirit lives also in the   XXth Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony participation , in the moving singing of the Italian Anthem and the Olympic Anthem written and directed by Claudio Baglioni.

Since some years the Chorus organises internal specific vocal courses in the view of a maturation and constant vocal growth. The Chorus, thanks to the collaboration with the Beinasco missionary group, has also issued three CDs, whose income contributes to help the children in the South Horr mission in Kenya.

The first November 1999 the Chorus became Association, giving life to the Associazione Corale "Ora e' Tempo di Gioia" and with the contribution and the collaboration of Circoscrizione 3 of Torino the Association annually organises the Choral Review "Natale InCantato".

Our voyage still goes on! We specially thanks all the people that have walked by us in these years and we will try, as far as we will be able to, to make ours S. Agostino words: "Singing is characteristic of people who love: people who sang with all his heart and with joy loves what he sang, loves the place where he sang, loves He for whom he sang and, finally, he loves all the people for whom he sang"