Please note that this website is currently being updated and will soon have
​a more complete archive of previous Common Ground Voices projects.

Common Ground Voices
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an international choir
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Common Ground Voices aims to form a circle of understanding in a world of differences between human beings. The common ground of music unites us and acts as a tool for fruitful dialogues based on creativity, compassion and respect.
(Statement formulated by the Common Ground Voices singers, Jerusalem, March 2017)

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Common Ground Voices (CGV) is an international project choir initiated by the Eric Ericson International Choral Centre and under the artistic direction of Dr. André de Quadros (Boston University). Originally CGV consisted of equal groups of Palestinians, Israelis, and Swedes, From 2018 one third is open for singers from the rest of the world.

CGV aims to generate a meaningful collaboration through music – to explore and create music of shared human values and aspirations – to contribute to community music as an exercise of non-violence, and to utilize music as a springboard for a meaningful discussion about social and political change, within the group as well as with the society in general.

CGV will continue to gather regularly in different locations and keep developing the CGV concept. This has inspired the work of Common Ground Voices / La Frontera as well as Common Ground Voices in times of war.​

I have fostered new connections with Palestinians in Haifa and the surroundings, including singing. CGV is about music but music is just the tool – not the goal..."
Ori Batchko, 2016 participant