Nordic Students Singers' Summit – NSSS (Swedish: Nordisk Studentsångarstämma) is a choral festival arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.
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History
Since 1987, Nordic and Baltic University choirs have gathered every third year in a choral festival. The first summit took place in 1987 in Linköping, Sweden. It was a renewal of an old tradition from the 19th century when the Scandinavian choirs travelled through Scandinavia by train or boat to visit each other.
The first summit focused on pedagogical and social events. From 1996, when 1,400 singers performed Carmina Burana by Carl Orff in Copenhagen and in 1999 in Tallinn Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, the summits have become more of public events. In Lappeenranta in Finland two pieces were premièred; Symphony No. 111 by Leif Segerstam and Das Lied des Wassers by Marcus Fagerudd. Both under the direction of Leif Segerstam.
Purpose
The purpose of NSSS is "to gather Nordic and Baltic academic choirs in forms of friendship and joy and events of high musical and social quality. NSSS is arranged every third year by local arrangers.”