International standing

Palissander has an international standing, as evidenced by its track record summarised below:

2023

Concert tour to Portugal with performances in Lisbon, Porto, Nazare, Parada abd Cascais
Performance in a Mass in the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal

2018

Participation in the Gaudeamus Student Festival in Tartu, Estonia - the biggest student song festival in the Baltic states
Additional concerts in Suure-Jääni, Tartu (in the Estonian National Museum with the Estonian Song Festival Choir), Pärnu and Tallinn
Performance in the Rock Church in Helsinki, Finland

2015

Concert tour to Italy, with concerts in Milan, Susa, Genoa and Albenga
Direct entry as the only choir from Africa to take part in the Twentieth International Choral Festival in Provence

2013

Direct entry as the only choir from Africa to take part in the Fifth International Choir Festival in Aveyron, France and the Eighteenth International Choral Festival in Provence
Concert in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to celebrate the 95th birthday of former South African president Nelson Mandela 

2011

Direct entry as the only choir from Africa to take part in the Third International Choir Festival in Aveyron, France
Two additional concerts in the vicinity of Barcelona, Spain

2008

Invited back by the Polyphonic Society of Provence as the only choir from Africa to take part in their Thirteenth International Choir Festival
One of only 12 choirs world-wide selected to take part in the International Choir Festival of Sacred Music in Rottenburg, Germany. During the festival, Palissander was one of only three of the international choirs present to be invited to take part in a recording of a BBC Evensong

2006

Invited back by the Polyphonic Society of Provence as the only choir from Africa to participate in their Eleventh International Choir Festival in Italy and France

2004

Only choir from Africa selected to participate in the Ninth International Choral Festival of Sainte Baume in Italy and France

2003

Resident choir at the conference of the Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education in Kisumu, Kenya

2002

Only representative from Africa selected to perform at the conference of the International Society for Music Education in Bergen, Norway
Performance at the South African Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark
Performance in Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Performance in Oslo, Norway

2000

Only performing group from Africa to perform at the conference of the International Society for Music Education held in Edmonton, Canada; additional concerts in Vancouver, Banff and Calgary

1998

Selected to present a lecture demonstration of South African music at the conference of the International Society for Music Education in Pretoria