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Bratislava Cantat II. 2019
October 03 - 06, 2019, October 8-11,2020, October 7-10,2021, Bratislava

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Smíšený sbor Konzervatoře Kroměříž

Czech Republic

Mixed choir of Conservatory P. J. Vejvanovsky from Kromeriz is a young body, whose members are constantly replaced by new students who come every year. Since its beginning it has been working under the guidance of Mgr. Lenka Polaskova. It has built a strong position in the mixed choirs both in the Czech Republic and abroad and participated in several competitions. They received the 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. The choir's repertoire is really miscellaneous.

Lenka Polášková

Conductor / Leader

Lenka Polášková studied piano playing 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, the choirmaster of which she has been so far. Now Lenka Polášková has been working as a teacher of solfege, choir singing and piano accompaniment at the Conservatoire of P.J. Vejvanovský in Kroměříž. The mixed singing choir of the school has won a lot of awards and has become one of the best in its category in the Czech Republic. She began to cooperate with the children singing choir Moravian Children as a piano accompanist in 1998, and since 2003 she has been a choirmaster there. In 2010 she was awarded for her successes the prize „Choirmaster – Junior“ by the Association of Singing Choirs.

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