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nowned Slovenian and foreign orchestra
conductors (M. Horvat, K. Penderecki, H.
Haenchen, U. Gronostay, T. Guschlbauer,
J. Kovács, K. Kobayashi, R. Muti …). The
choir’s concert repertoire has offered many
premieres of Slovenian and foreign authors’
works, with most of the program within the
Vocal season series being new to the home
audience. The Slovenian Chamber Choir has
performed at numerous European festivals,
has been rewarded multiple times for their
performances at the Varaždin Baroque
Evenings festival and released 30 CDs of
Slovenian sacred music under the name
Musica Sacra Slovenica.
Andrej Smrekar
Andrej Smrekar se je rodil v Kostanjevici
na Krki leta 1954. Diplomo in magisterij
iz umetnostne zgodovine je opravil na
ljubljanski Filozofski fakulteti, doktorat
pa na znamenitem Harvardu. Vrsto let
je delal kot vodja ateljeja na prostem
Mednarodnega simpozija kiparjev Forma
viva, kot organizator kulturnih programov
pri Dolenjskem kulturnem festivalu
in Grafičnem bienalu jugoslovanskih
otrok. Po diplomi leta 1977 se je zaposlil
kot kustos v Galeriji Božidar Jakac, kjer je
sodeloval pri postavitvi njenih prvih stalnih
zbirk, kasneje je postal njen direktor.
V letih 1980/81 je bil IREX-ov štipendist
– svobodni slušatelj na Harvardski univerzi.
Med študijem je delal v grafični
zbirki v Fogg Art Museumu, bil večkrat
asistent pri vajah različnih predmetov in
izvedel tri predavanja o moderni plastiki
na Brandeis University. S tezo »Nadrealizem
in slikarstvo: predstavitve v teoriji in
kritiki v Parizu 1925 – 1928« je doktoriral
leta 1991. Kot direktor Narodne galerije
je v letih od 1991 do 2005 koordiniral
več večjih projektov (Gotika v Sloveniji,
Zakladi slovenskih cerkva, Valentin
Metzinger itd.) Pripravil je več razstav iz
slovenske zgodnje moderne umetnosti.
Plod njegovega zanimanja za recepcijo
likovne umetnosti je več razstav in
razprav s področja slovenske moderne
umetnosti. Sedaj je muzejski svetnik v
Narodni galeriji in skrbi za zbirko del na
papirju. Andrej Smrekar je od leta 2002
predsednik Slovenskega muzejskega
društva in od 2006 član IO slovenskega
nacionalnega odbora ICOM.
Andrej Smrekar was born in 1954 in Kostanjevica
na Krki, Slovenia. He received his BA
and MA at the University of Ljubljana and
his Ph.D. at Harvard University. For a number
of years he has worked for the International
Symposium of Sculptors FORMA VIVA,
for the Lower Carniolan Festival of Culture
in Kostanjevica na Krki and for the Yugoslav
Biennial of Children’s Print. After his
graduation he took the post of the curator
at the Božidar Jakac Art Museum and later
became its director. In 1980/81 he held an
IREX grant as a visiting fellow at Harvard
University. During his doctoral studies in
Cambridge, Massachusetts he worked at the
Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum, held
several teaching fellowships at the Harvard
University and gave three lectures on early
modern sculpture at the Brandeis University.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1991
with his thesis “Surrealism and Painting:
Representations in theory and Criticism
in Paris 1925−1928”. Smrekar has been the
director of the national Gallery of Slovenia
from 1991 to 2005. As a curator he directed
several national projects (Gothic Art in Slovenia,
The Treasures of Slovene Churches,
Valentin Metzinger, etc.). He has organized
several exhibitions and wrote catalogues
and articles on Slovene artists of the 20 th
century. Smrekar’s interest in reception of
visual art resulted in several papers and catalogues.
He serves as a museum adviser to
the National Gallery of Slovenia and keeper
of the collection of works on paper. Andrej
Smrekar has served as the president of the
Slovene Museum Society since 2002 and as
a member of the ICOM Slovenia executive
board since 2006.