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Bratislava Choir Festival 2017
June 15 - 18, 2017, Bratislava

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Ensembles

SPS Konzervatoře P. J. Vejvanovského Kroměříž

Czech Republic

Mixed choir of Conservatory P. J. Vejvanovsky from Kromeriz is a young ensemble whose members are constantly replaced by new students who come every year. Since its beginning the choir has been working under the guidance of Ms Lenka Polaskova. It has built a strong position among the mixed choirs both in the Czech Republic and abroad and participated in several competitions. They received a gold medal at the International Festival of Songs in Olomouc in 2007. In 2011 they won the national competition of high school choirs Opava Cantat. In 2014 they were awarded 1st prize cum laude at the international festival in Belgium. In June 2016, they became the absolute winner of the international competition of choirs in Jihlava.

Lenka Polášková

Conductor / Leader

Lenka Polášková studied piano at the Conservatoire of P.J. Vejvanovský in Kroměříž and the choir conductorship at the Ostrava University. She gratuated in 2003. At the beginning of her university studies she renewed the choir singing tradition in the town Hulín, and in 1999 she founded the mixed singing choir Smetana – Hulín, of which she has been the choirmaster from its beginnings. Currently she is working as a teacher of solfege, choir singing and piano accompaniment at the Conservatoire of P.J. Vejvanovský in Kroměříž. She began to cooperate with the children choir Moravian Children as a piano accompanist in 1998, and since 2003 she has been their choirmaster. In 2010 she was awarded the „Choirmaster – Junior“ Prize by the Association of Choirs.

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