We cordially invite you to the February concert of the sacral subscription, where the decor Chamber Choir will perform under the direction of conductor Peter Novak Smolic . Accompanied by organist Tilno Bajec, a concert program entitled Hear My Love will be noted.
Listen to we are Rekviemu of the contemporary american composer Michael John Trotte , that will be in our place for the first time, and the zborovskim work of the composers of the S. Bergha, In the Lebiča, G. Orbána, J. Runestada, and M. Waldenbya. With music based on the tradition of Gregorian chant and at the same time incorporating modern language, the Chamber Choir decor will invite us on a journey to light and peace and to the memory of all who left before us.
The concert will take place on Wednesday, 4. in February 2026, at 19: 30. uri, in the Ursuline Church of Sts. Trinity in Ljubljana.
There is no entrance fee, but we will be glad to volunteer contributions.
Kindly invited!
Programme:
Michael John Trotta (1978) re | I | I Requiem (Mass for the Rhine) Introit et K | I | I entrance chant and Lord, Have Mercy Dies Irae | terrible day Offertorium et Hostias | offering chant Sanctus | World Pie Jesu | love Jesus Agnus Dei | Lamb Of God Lu / Aeterna / Eternal Light Libera / Save Me, Lord Et Mors Ultra Non Erit / and there will be no more death and Paradisum / V heaven
Jake Runestad (1986
Sverre Bergh (1915-1980) And Death Shall Have No Dominion I and death will not prevail (d Alutlan Thomas)
Lojze Lebic (1934) zmierom I must bondrati
G / / Orban (1947) Daemon Irrepit Callidus I The Demon shrewdly steals (Goliardic hymn)
Michael Formulaldenb / (1953) Dulce lumen I The Light is sweet (Ecclesiastes, 11, 7-8)
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
With the twelfth solo concert cycle and at the same time the first, which marks the entry into a new decade of the choir's activity, the decor Chamber Choir, under the direction of conductor Peter Novak Smolic, focuses on the path that leads to light and peace and explores love and loss.
A prayer for all who have left before us and for all who will remain when we are gone – a Requiem by the contemporary American composer Michael John Trotte, in its first performance on our soil, will address the interplay of feelings that every person feels facing death and questioning its role. The composition, for which Trotta drew inspiration from his own experience of the premature death of his father and the comforting power of music, juxtaposes and confronts the feelings of peace and fear most often associated with the experience of death. While intertwining the tradition of Gregorian chants and paying tribute to the great masters who marked classical music lovers all over the world with their exceptional tunings of the Mass for the Rhine, he adds his pebble to the mosaic of this exceptional musical form by incorporating modern harmonic language and approaches to the presentation of the text and rich harmonies.
The composer's prayer for all to find peace when faced with the unknown is also conveyed by the chamber choir to the accompanying part of the program, which addresses our compassion, discomfort, temptation, Vanity, helplessness and, knowing that death will never prevail over life, merges into the path to peace, towards the light that shines in eternity.
The decor Chamber Choir (2015) was already focusing on programme innovation, maturity and diversity when it was founded. The fundamental vision of the choir is a weighty, content-rounded programme with numerous first performances on Slovenian stages. The band brings together experienced choir singers from all over Slovenia, who in the past have been trained in renowned national and foreign compositions. Great choral enthusiasts collaborate with established guest conductors on a project basis, in order to maintain a broad view of the extensive choral literature and to perform music of different expressions and stylistic periods.
PETER NOVAK Smolic is a choral conductor of the younger generation, who works at the Maribor Conservatory of music and ballet as a professor of music-theoretical subjects and choirmaster of high school choirs.
After graduating from High School Novo mesto and Conservatory of music Jurij Slatkonja in Novo Mesto, he enrolled at the Academy of music in Ljubljana and graduated in 2014 in the class of prof. Mark Mihevc from composition and music theory. He was trained as a conductor by Sebastjan Vrhovnik and improved his knowledge at seminars with world-renowned lecturers (Matti H Amaktkki, Gar / Graden, Christian Klucker, Natalia Alaka Lukina and Florian Meier). He has been an active choir director for 20 years, during which time he has led numerous ensembles (Vocal Group Tempus, MEPZ of the parish of Dobrnic, MEPZ of the parish of Ljubljana – Podutik, APZ Risto Savin, Terz 6uartet and The Boys', Girls ' and mixed Youth Choir of the Maribor Conservatory). He was also assistant conductor of the apz Tone Tomsic University of Ljubljana and worked as a guest conductor with MEPZ Obala from Koper.
With the APZ Risto Savin, the Terz Moduluartet and the DPZ of the Maribor Conservatory, he received three gold awards with honors at regional competitions, seven gold awards and several special awards at international competitions (Budapest, Karlovac, Tuzla, Rimini).
Vljudno vas vabimo na februarski koncert Sakralnega abonmaja, na katerem bo nastopil Komorni zbor DEKOR pod vodstvom dirigenta Petra Novaka Smoliča . Ob spremljavi organista Mateja Podstenška bo zazvenel koncertni program z naslovom Slišite mojo ljubezen.
Prisluhnili bomo Rekviemu sodobnega ameriškega skladatelja Michaela Johna Trotte , ki bo pri nas izveden prvič, ter zborovskim delom skladateljev S. Bergha, L. Lebiča, G. Orbána, J. Runestada in M. Waldenbya. Z glasbo, ki sloni na tradiciji gregorijanskega korala in hkrati vključuje sodobno govorico, nas bo Komorni zbor Dekor povabil na pot k luči in miru ter spominu na vse, ki so odšli pred nami.
Koncert bo v sredo, 4. februarja 2026, ob 19.30. uri, v uršulinski cerkvi Sv. Trojice v Ljubljani.
Vstopnine ni, veseli pa bomo prostovoljnih prispevkov.
Vljudno vabljeni!
PROGRAM:
Michael John Trotta (1978) Requiem I Rekviem (maša za rajne) Introit et Kyrie I Vstopni spev in Gospod, usmili se Dies Irae | Strašen dan Offertorium et Hostias | Darovanjski spev Sanctus | Svet Pie Jesu | Ljubi Jezus Agnus Dei | Jagnje Božje Lux Aeterna | Večna luč Libera me | Reši me, Gospod Et Mors Ultra Non Erit | In smrti ne bo več In Paradisum | V nebesa
Jake Runestad (1986) Let my love be heard I Slišite mojo ljubezen (Alfred Noyes)
Sverre Bergh (1915–1980) And Death Shall Have No Dominion I In smrt ne bo prevladala (Dylan Thomas)
Lojze Lebič (1934) Zmierom moram bondrati
Gyorgy Orban (1947) Daemon Irrepit Callidus I Demon se pretkano krade (Goliardska himna)
Michael Waldenby (1953) Dulce lumen I Svetloba je sladka (Pridigar, 11, 7–8)
O PROGRAMU
Z dvanajstim samostojnim koncertnim ciklom in hkrati prvim, ki zaznamuje vstop v novo desetletje delovanja zbora, se komorni zbor DEKOR pod vodstvom dirigenta Petra Novaka Smoliča osredotoča na pot, ki vodi k luči in miru ter raziskuje ljubezen in izgubo.
Molitev za vse, ki so odšli pred nami, ter vse, ki bodo ostali, ko nas več ne bo – Rekviem sodobnega ameriškega skladatelja Michaela Johna Trotte bo v prvi izvedbi na naših tleh nagovorila preplet občutij, ki ga v sleherniku budi soočanje s smrtjo in preizpraševanje njene vloge. Kompozicija, za katero je Trotta navdih črpal iz lastne izkušnje prerane smrti očeta in tolažilne moči glasbe, sopostavlja in sooča občutji miru ter strahu, ki ju najpogosteje povezujemo z doživljanjem smrti. Medtem ko prepleta tradicijo gregorijanskih koralov in se hkrati poklanja velikim mojstrom, ki so z izjemnimi uglasbitvami maše za rajne zaznamovali ljubitelje klasične glasbe širom sveta, z vključevanjem sodobnega harmonskega jezika in pristopov k predstavitvi besedila ter bogatih harmonij pridaja svoj kamenček v mozaik te izjemne glasbene oblike.
Skladateljevo molitev, da bi vsi našli mir, ko se soočimo z neznanim, komorni zbor DEKOR prenaša tudi v spremljevalni del programa, ki nagovarja naše sočutje, nelagodje, skušnjavo, nečimrnost, nemoč in se ob zavedanju, da smrt nikdar ne bo prevladala nad življenjem, zlije v pot k miru, proti luči, ki sije v večnosti.
KOMORNI ZBOR DEKOR (2015) se je že ob ustanovitvi usmeril v programsko inovativnost, zrelost in raznolikost. Temeljna vizija zbora so tehtni, vsebinsko zaokroženi sporedi s številnimi prvimi izvedbami na slovenskih odrih. Zasedba združuje izkušene zborovske pevce iz vse Slovenije, ki so se v preteklosti kalili v priznanih domačih in tujih sestavih. Veliki zborovski navdušenci projektno sodelujejo z uveljavljenimi gostujočimi dirigenti, s čimer želijo ohranjati širok pogled na obširno zborovsko literaturo ter izvajati glasbo različnih izrazov in stilnih obdobij.
PETER NOVAK SMOLIČ je zborovski dirigent mlajše generacije, ki kot profesor glasbeno-teoretičnih predmetov in zborovodja srednješolskih zborov deluje na Konservatoriju za glasbo in balet Maribor.
Po končani Gimnaziji Novo mesto in Konservatoriju za glasbo Jurij Slatkonja v Novem mestu se je vpisal na Akademijo za glasbo v Ljubljani in leta 2014 diplomiral v razredu prof. Marka Mihevca iz kompozicije in glasbene teorije. Dirigentsko se je izobraževal pri Sebastjanu Vrhovniku in svoje znanje izpopolnjeval na seminarjih s svetovno uveljavljenimi predavatelji (Matti Hyökki, Gary Graden, Christian Klucker, Nataliya Lukina in Florian Meier). Že 20 let je aktiven zborovodja, v tem času pa je vodil številne zasedbe (Vokalna skupina Tempus, MePZ župnije Dobrnič, MePZ župnije Ljubljana – Podutik, APZ Risto Savin, Terz Quartet ter Fantovski, dekliški in mešani mladinski pevski zbor Konservatorija Maribor). Bil je tudi asistent dirigenta APZ Tone Tomšič Univerze v Ljubljani in kot gostujoči dirigent sodeloval z MePZ Obala iz Kopra.
Z APZ Risto Savin, Terz Quartetom in DPZ Konservatorija Maribor je na regijskih tekmovanjih trikrat prejel zlato priznanje z odliko, na mednarodnih tekmovanjih (Budimpešta, Karlovac, Tuzla, Rimini) sedem zlatih priznanj in več posebnih priznanj.
