OCF2008 Program - Ohrid Choir Festival

CHÓR MIESZANY ECHO PRZY ZWIĄZKU NAUCZYCIELSTWA POLSKIEGO I REGIONAL-NYM CENTRUM KULTUR POGRANICZA W KROŚNIEECHO CHOIR OF TEACHER’S UNIONKROSNO - POLANDMARIOLA WALISZKOProgramName of the song Music by Lyrics by1 Otcze nasz Nikolai Kedrov Bible source2 Parce Domine Feliks Nowowiejski Bible source3 Dzwon Piotr Drożdżewski Unknown4 Alleluia Gordon Young Bible source5 Good news mel. Negro Spiritual, arr. D. Newby Unknown6 Oj, nasi jadą Folk. arr. Stanisław Rożdżyński FolkThe “Echo” choir has been performing on stages in Krosno for over 60 yearsadding splendor to religious and state ceremonies. It has taken part in numerousconcerts, festivals and reviews at home and abroad, getting the best prizes.“Echo” choir is the organizer of “Soli Deo Gloria” Euroregional Concert ofCarols, and the “Ave Maria” Song and Poem Party as well as concerts on theoccasion of Pope’s Days. It carries on an artistic exchange with groups fromPoland and abroad – Slovakia, Austria, Belgium, Hungary and Ukraine.Mariola Waliszko who has been conducting the choir since August 2004, is agraduate of the Music Academy in Wrocław. She did postgraduate studies ofhearing training at Music Academy in Warsaw and also postgraduate studies ofVoice Emission at the Centre of Animation of Culture in Warsaw and the MusicAcademy in Bydgoszcz. In October 2007 she won the Award for the Best Conductorat the all-Polish Festival of Religious Song “Cantate Deo” in Rzeszów.MEŠANI PEVSKI ZBOR GLASBENA MATICA LJUBLJANAMIXED CHOIR OF GLASBENA MATICA LJUBLJANALJUBLJANA - SLOVENIASEBASTJAN VRHOVNIK, ConductorProgramName of the song Music by Lyrics by1 For the beauty of the Earth John Rutter F.S. Pierpoint2 Protuletje Spring Arr. Ubald Vrabec Prekmurje Folksong3 Makedonska humoreska Todor Skalovski4 Pa se sliš’ You can hear Arr. Karol Pahor Primorska Folksong5 Tanzlied Dance song Henrich PoosGLASBENA MATICA LJUBLJANA is Slovenia’s oldest mixed choir. It was founded117 years ago and operates within the framework of the Slovene PhilharmonicSociety. The Society was founded with the purpose of fostering and cultivatingfolklore music in every aspect. The Choir’s program is comprised of sacred, traditionaland artistic choral works from all over the world, with a heartfelt focus ontraditional Slovene songs.The conductor is Prof. Sebastjan Vrhovnik (1978), who has worked successfullywith a number of choirs. He marked his musical path with a matriculation to theMusical Academy in Ljubljana (Musical pedagogy 2004), after which he continuedat the Musical and Performance Art college in Graz (Austria) in the class ofprofessor Johannes Prinz (Choir Conducting). Since October 2006 he has beenassistant choir conductor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana.