Vocal group Gallina MEDITATIONES you are cordially invited to the meditationes concert, which will be performed by vocal group Gallina with artistic director Ana Erculj . The Program of the concert is interspersed with compositions of Catholic and Orthodox liturgies with Slovenian, Italian and Hungarian devotional songs for female choirs. The concert will also be the presentation of the New meditationes CD. The concert will take place on Wednesday, 9. February 2021 at 19: 30. uri in the Ursuline Church of Sv. Trinity in Ljubljana. There is no entrance fee, but we will be glad to volunteer contributions. To attend the concert, it is necessary to meet the PCT condition. Kindly invited!
Programme
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) : O Virtus Sapientiae Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Liturgy of STS. St. John Chrysostom, op. 41: decently eating Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov(1877-1944): praise the Lord's name, op. 9, No. 23 Nana Forte (1981): Adesto Sancta Trinitas Andrej Makor (1987): Theotokos Djevo Tebe poem Our Father Matthew Kastelic (1994): Ave Maria Andrej Makor (1987): Meditationes sacrae I. Visionem II. Meditabor Pavle Merk / (1927-2014): Jesus and the ajdov girl (folk from the Cross near Trieste) Pavle Merk / (1927-2014): La palma del signore (folk from the area around Lazio) Andrej Makor (1987): the water of the Rhine (folk song from the bales in Venetian Slovenia) Aldo Kumar (1954): The Sun (folk text) Zoltan Kodal / (1882-1967): Esti dal (Hungarian folk)
Vocal group Gallina
The vocal composition, which creates under the name Gallina, was formed at the end of 2010. The group pays a lot of attention to the performance of Slovenian folk and art music, to the compositions of World choral literature from the Renaissance to the contemporary, to the compositions of the Golden Age of Slovenian pop, and foreign compositions of vocal jazz and pop also like to find their way into the repertoire. A particularly important mission of the group is to encourage young composers to create new compositions and thereby enrich the female vocal and choral Treasury. In the past, Gallina has achieved a number of notable successes, among the most important ones we can highlight the golden award with honors from the regional competition of adult choirs and small singing groups 2013 (Slovenia), the golden plaque and the award for the best vocal group of the competition Our Song 2014 (Slovenia) and the second prize in the category of vocal groups and the second place in the category romance of the International Competition Polifonico Arezzo 2014 (Italy). In 2014, the band released their first CD of the Chicken Lady . In 2015, Gallina won the classical and folkloric music categories at the Lipanjski zvuci international competition in Petrinja (Croatia), and won the Grand at the. Due to its specificity and recognized quality, Gallina is invited by many Slovenian and foreign organizers. In 2015 they performed at Slovenian and international festivals: Festa della musica attiva (Italy), 11. International Choral festival (Slovenia), Lent Festival ( Slovenia) and Kragujevac International Choral festival (Serbia). In 2016, Gallina toured Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with the adorable five programme and presented herself at home and abroad (Slovenia, Austria, Italy) with a cycle of Sacred Concerts in churches with paintings by Tonet Kralj. At the end of 2016, the band released their second CD, cute five, and presented themselves at various attractive Ljubljana locations with a series of concerts Evergreen Gallina. In 2017, Gallina made a guest appearance in Utrecht, The Netherlands and took part in the InCanto Mediterraneo competition (Sicily, Italy), where she won first place in the sacred category. With the project Gallina Delu module, which connected vocal music with architecture and light, the group prepared a new set of concerts with an emphasis on folk music and new features written for this occasion by famous Slovenian composers. In 2017, Gallina participated in three national celebrations. At the CorAmare international competition in Sestri-Levante (Italy) in 2018, the vocal group Gallina won in two categories and won the Grand Pri of the competition. In September 2018 Gallina involved with the project, the Music from the Ravensbrück, Musik für Ravensbrück ( Music from the Ravensbrücka, the music of the Ravensbrück ), Germany, where he is a vocal composition, in collaboration with two of the inštrumentalistkama počastil the memory of the women who died in the koncentracijskem camp of Ravensbrück, with the implementation of the novitet and priredb folk songs of the slovenian skladateljic. In 2019, Gallina toured in Italy, Serbia, Germany, the Netherlands and Croatia, and in Slovenia she presented herself at major national level events. In 2020, the vocal group Gallina performed at the important Chamber Music Festival Trame Sonora in Mantua (Italy). In 2019, concerts music for Ravensbr Animcck took place in three different locations (Ljubljana, Koper, Celje) in Slovenia, with the support of the Ministry of culture. As part of the project of the same name, in 2020, the CD music for Ravensbr is published by RTV Slovenija and in the same year, the vocal group Gallina also released a CD Meditationes with a sacral program. With the release of both albums and a gala concert, Gallina marked its 10 – year anniversary in 2020. In the vocal group Gallina, under the artistic direction of Ana Erculj, Masha Simcic, Federica Lo Pinto, Ana Noblic and Sour Cherry Ficor sing.
ANA ERCULJ
Ana Erculj is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts in Musicology and Sociology of culture, and in 2017 she graduated in choral conducting at the Academy of music in Ljubljana with prof. Sebastian The Supreme. She was trained at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and at the University of Art Graz with Prof. Johannes Prinz. In 2022, she completed her studies in orchestral conducting at the Academy of music in Ljubljana under the mentorship of Prof. Mark Letonje and Prof. Simon Dvorshak performed an overture to the Opera Charostrelec (C. M. von Animaceber) and Pulcinelle (I. Stravinsky) with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. She is currently a master's student in orchestral conducting at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Tartini"in Trieste with Prof. Marc Angius. At the time of her studies, she worked as a singer and accompanist in various choirs and vocal groups. She has led various ensembles: the vocal group sextet Komplet, the vocal group Solalei, the female choir Biser, the Domzale chamber choir, ... she has collaborated with the female choir of Charnice , with the Vocal Academy of Ljubljana , with the wind and Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of music , with the University Symphony Orchestra GRE, with the music Symphony Orchestra, with the horn quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic and with the Slovenian Philharmonic Choir. As an assistant conductor, she collaborated with APZ Tone Tomsic and with SNG Opera and ballet Ljubljana in the performance of the Opera Ksenija and Carmina Burana . She is currently an assistant conductor to Sebastjan Vrhovnik at the Mixed Choir Of The Musical nut and a guest conductor of the Coastal Chamber Orchestra. She is the founder and artistic director of the vocal group Gallina and the vocal – instrumental ensemble Musica Emonica. With the vocal group Gallina , the Domzale Chamber Choir and various instrumental ensembles, she has for the first time performed numerous novelties of composers: Aldo Kumar, Andrea Basevi, Nana Forte, Andrej Makor, Mojca Prus, Ambrose Chopi, Katarina Pustinek Rakar, Mateja Kastelic, Federica Lo Pinto, Melani Popit, ... she upgrades her knowledge at seminars and trainings for conductors, under the guidance of established conductors: Martina Batic, Marco Angius, Johannes Prinz, Ragnar Rasmussen, Steffan Schre amuter, Georg GR Altern, Gar Altern Graden, Marko Letonja and Stojan Kuret. She took part in the education of Young Choral managers and conductors at the Pol Faktfollia Festival (France), participated as an active participant at the European Academy for choral conductors in Graz, and also participated in two master classes for vocal groups led by sextet Singer Pur and Finnish vocal group Rajaton . With the vocal group Gallina reached the first place among vocal groups at the competition our song in Maribor (2014), at the international competition in Arezzo (Italy) she received two other awards in the category of vocal groups and romance, and in 2017 she won the first prize in the category of sacred music at the competition InCanto Mediterraneo/ Sicily. In 2018, at the "CorAmare" competition in Sestri-Levante (Italy), the vocal group Gallina under her leadership won in two categories and won the Grand Pri in the final performance of the competition. With the vocal group Gallina, she released two CDs "chicken ladies" (2014) and "cute five" (2016), and in 2021, two albums "Music for Ravensbr Animcck" by RTV and "Meditationes" by rattlesnake . Since 2016 at the Academy of theatre, radio and television she has been conducting a vocal technique workshop within the course theatre singing, and as an accompanist and singer she works with the Ljubljana City Theatre and SNG Drama, with directors and composers: Stanislav Mosha, Barbara Hieng Samobor, Matjaz Zupancic, Eva Hribernik, Drago Ivanusha, Bostjan Gombac, ... as a publicist she works with various magazines and institutions: Revija Glasna, SIGIC, RTV, in 2019, Cankarjev Dom, ... was a member of the jury of the International Choral Competition "Cor Amare" in Sestri-Levante, Italy, where she also led a choral improvisation workshop with more than a hundred participants. In 2019, she founded the Musica Emonica choir and orchestra, with which she performs vocal-instrumental classicist works in connection with the novelties of Slovenian contemporary composers.
Vokalna skupina Gallina MEDITATIONES Vljudno vabljeni na koncert Meditationes , ki ga bo v okviru Sakralnega abonmaja izvedla Vokalna skupina Gallina z umetniško vodjo Ano Erčulj . Program koncerta prepletajo skladbe katoliške in pravoslavne liturgije s slovenskimi, italijanskimi in madžarskimi nabožnimi pesmimi za ženske zbore. Koncert bo hkrati tudi predstavitev nove zgoščenke Meditationes. Koncert bo v sredo, 9. februarja 2021 ob 19.30. uri v Uršulinski cerkvi Sv. Trojice v Ljubljani. Vstopnine ni, veseli pa bomo prostovoljni prispevkov. Za obisk koncerta je potrebno izpolnjevati PCT pogoj. Vljudno vabljeni!
Program
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179): O Virtus Sapientiae Peter Iljič Čajkovski (1840-1893) : Liturgija sv. Janeza Zlatoustega, op. 41: Dostojno jest Pavel Grigorijevič Česnokov(1877–1944): Hvalite imja gospodne, op. 9, št. 23 Nana Forte (1981): Adesto Sancta Trinitas Andrej Makor (1987) : Bogorodice Djevo Tebe poem Oče naš Matej Kastelic (1994): Ave Maria Andrej Makor (1987): Meditationes sacrae I. Visionem II. Meditabor Pavle Merkù (1927-2014): Jezus in ajdovska deklica (ljudska iz Križa pri Trstu) Pavle Merkù (1927-2014): La palma del signore (ljudska iz okolice Lazia) Andrej Makor (1987): Voda rajna (ljudska pesem iz Plestišč v Beneški Sloveniji) Aldo Kumar (1954): Sonce (ljudsko besedilo) Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967): Esti dal (madžarska ljudska)
Vokalna skupina Gallina
Vokalni sestav, ki ustvarja pod imenom Gallina , je nastal konec leta 2010. Skupina veliko pozornosti namenja izvajanju slovenske ljudske in umetne glasbe, skladbam svetovne zborovske literature od renesanse do sodobnosti, skladbam zlatega časa slovenske popevke, na repertoarju pa se rade znajdejo tudi tuje skladbe vokalnega jazza in popa. Še posebej pomembno poslanstvo skupine je spodbujanje mladih skladateljev k ustvarjanju novih skladb in s tem k bogatenju ženske vokalne in zborovske zakladnice. V dosedanjem delovanju je Gallina dosegla vrsto vidnejših uspehov, med pomembnejšimi lahko izpostavimo zlato priznanje z odliko z Regijskega tekmovanja odraslih pevskih zborov in malih pevskih skupin 2013 (Slovenija), zlato plaketo in priznanje za najboljšo vokalno skupino tekmovanja Naša pesem 2014 (Slovenija) in drugo nagrado v kategoriji vokalnih skupin ter drugo mesto v kategoriji romantika mednarodnega tekmovanja Polifonico Arezzo 2014 (Italija). V letu 2014 je skupina izdala svojo prvo zgoščenko Kurje gospe . Leta 2015 je Gallina na mednarodnem tekmovanju Lipanjski zvuci v Petrinji (Hrvaška) zmagala v kategorijah klasične in folklorne glasbe ter osvojila Grand Prix. Gallino zaradi svoje specifičnosti in prepoznane kvalitete v goste vabijo številni slovenski in tuji organizatorji. V letu 2015 so nastopile na slovenskih in mednarodnih festivalih: Festa della musica attiva (Italija), 11. Mednarodni zborovski festival (Slovenija), Festival Lent (Slovenija) in Mednarodni zborovski festival Kragujevac ( Srbija). Gallina je s programom Prikupnih pet v letu 2016 gostovala na Hrvaškem in v Bosni in Hercegovini ter se s ciklom sakralnih koncertov po cerkvah s poslikavami Toneta Kralja predstavila doma in v zamejstvu (Slovenija, Avstrija, Italija). Skupina je konec leta 2016 izdala svojo drugo zgoščenko Prikupnih pet in se s sklopom koncertov Zimzelena Gallina predstavila na različnih atraktivnih ljubljanskih lokacijah. V letu 2017 je Gallina gostovala v Utrechtu na Nizozemskem ter se udeležila tekmovanja InCanto Mediterraneo (Sicilija, Italija), kjer je osvojila prvo mesto v sakralni kategoriji. S projektom Gallina DeLux , ki je povezoval vokalno glasbo z arhitekturo in svetlobo, je skupina pripravila nov sklop koncertov s poudarkom na ljudski glasbi in prav za to priložnost napisanimi novitetami znanih slovenskih skladateljev. V letu 2017 je Gallina sodelovala kar na treh državnih proslavah. Na mednarodnem tekmovanju CorAmare v Sestri-Levante (Italija) leta 2018 je Vokalna skupina Gallina zmagala v dveh kategorijah in osvojila Grand Prix tekmovanja. Septembra 2018 je Gallina sodelovala pri projektu Musik aus Ravensbrück, Musik für Ravensbrück ( Glasba iz Ravensbrücka, glasba za Ravensbrück )v Nemčiji, kjer je vokalni sestav v sodelovanju z dvema inštrumentalistkama počastil spomin na umrle ženske v koncentracijskem taborišču Ravensbrück z izvajanjem novitet in priredb ljudskih pesmi slovenskih skladateljic. V letu 2019 je Gallina gostovala v Italiji, Srbiji, Nemčiji ter na Nizozemskem in Hrvaškem, v Sloveniji pa se je predstavila na pomembnejših prireditvah državnega nivoja. Leta 2020 je vokalna skupina Gallina nastopila na pomembnem festivalu komorne glasbe Trame sonore v Mantovi (Italija). Koncerti Glasba za Ravensbrück so v letu 2019 ob podpori Ministrstva za kulturo zaživeli tudi na treh različnih lokacijah (Ljubljana, Koper, Celje) v Sloveniji. V sklopu istoimenskega projekta je leta 2020 pri Založbi RTV Slovenija izšla zgoščenka Glasba za Ravensbrück istega leta pa je vokalna skupina Gallina izdala tudi zgoščenko Meditationes s sakralnim programom. Z izdajo obeh albumov in slavnostnim koncertom je Gallina leta 2020 obeležila svojo 10 – obletnico delovanja. V vokalni skupina Gallina pod umetniškim vodstvom Ane Erčulj pojejo Maša Simčič, Federica Lo Pinto, Ana Plemenitaš in Višnja Fičor.
ANA ERČULJ
Ana Erčulj je diplomirala na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani iz smeri Muzikologija in Sociologija kulture, leta 2017 pa je na Akademiji za glasbo v Ljubljani diplomirala zborovsko dirigiranje pri prof. Sebastjanu Vrhovniku. Izpopolnjevala se je na Univerzi v Utrechtu (Nizozemska) in na Umetniški univerzi v Gradcu pri prof. Johannesu Prinzu. Leta 2022 je zaključila študij orkestrskega dirigiranja na Akademiji za glasbo v Ljubljani pod mentorstvom prof. Marka Letonje in prof. Simona Dvoršaka z izvedbo Uverture k operi Čarostrelec (C. M. von Weber) in Pulcinelle (I. Stravinski) z orkestrom Slovenske filharmonije. Trenutno je študentka magistrskega študija orkestrskega dirigiranja na Konservatoriju »Giuseppe Tartini« v Trstu pri prof. Marcu Angiusu. Ob študiju je kot pevka in korepetitorka delovala v različnih zborih in vokalnih skupinah. Vodila je različne zasedbe : Vokalno skupino Sekstet Komplet, Vokalno skupino Solalei, ženski zbor Biser, Domžalski komorni zbor ,… Sodelovala je z ženskim pevskim zborom Čarnice , z Vokalno akademijo Ljubljana , s Pihalnim in Simfoničnim orkestrom Akademije za glasbo , z Univerzitetnim simfoničnim orkestrom Grex Symphoniacorum , s Kvartetom rogov Slovenske filharmonije ter z Zborom Slovenske filharmon ije. Kot asistentka dirigenta je sodelovala z APZ Tone Tomšič in z SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana pri izvedbi opere Ksenija in Carmina Burana . Trenutno je asistentka dirigenta Sebastjana Vrhovnika pri Mešanemu zboru Glasbene matice in gostujoča dirigentka Obalnega komornega orkestra. Je ustanoviteljica in umetniška vodja vokalne skupine Gallina in vokalno – instrumentalnega ansambla Musica Emonica. Z vokalno skupino Gallina , Domžalskim komornim zborom in z različnimi instrumentalnimi zasedbami je prvič izvedla številne novitete skladateljev: Alda Kumarja, Andrea Basevija, Nane Forte, Andreja Makorja, Mojce Prus, Ambroža Čopija, Katarine Pustinek Rakar, Mateja Kastelica, Federice Lo Pinto, Melani Popit, … Svoje znanje nadgrajuje na seminarjih in izobraževanjih za dirigente, pod vodstvom uveljavljenih dirigentov: Martina Batič, Marco Angius, Johannes Prinz, Ragnar Rasmussen, Steffan Schreyer, Georg Grün, Gary Graden, Marko Letonja in Stojan Kuret. Udeležila se je izobraževanja mladih zborovskih menedžerjev in dirigentov na festivalu Polyfollia (Francija), kot aktivna udeleženka je sodelovala na Evropski akademiji za zborovske dirigente v Grazu, sodelovala pa je tudi na dveh mojstrskih tečajih za vokalne skupine pod vodstvom seksteta Singer Pur in finske vokalne skupine Rajaton . Z vokalno skupino Gallina je na tekmovanju Naša pesem v Mariboru (2014) dosegla prvo mesto med vokalnimi skupinami, na mednarodnem tekmovanju v Arezzu (Italija) je prejela dve drugi nagradi v kategoriji vokalnih skupin in romantike, leta 2017 pa je na tekmovanju InCanto Mediterraneo/ Sicilija osvojila prvo nagrado v kategoriji sakralne glasbe. Leta 2018 je na tekmovanju »CorAmare« v Sestri-Levante (Italija) vokalna skupina Gallina pod njenim vodstvom zmagala v dveh kategorijah in v finalnem nastopu osvojila Grand Prix tekmovanja. Z vokalno skupino Gallina je izdala dve zgoščenki »Kurje gospe« (2014) in »Prikupnih pet« (2016), v letu 2021 pa dva albuma »Glasba za Ravensbrück« pri založbi RTV in »Meditationes« pri založbi Klopotec . Od leta 2016 dalje na Akademiji za gledališče, radio in televizij o vodi delavnice vokalne tehnike v sklopu predmeta gledališko petje, kot korepetitorka in pevka pa sodeluje z Mestnim gledališčem ljubljanskim in SNG Drama, z režiserji ter skladatelji: Stanislavom Mošo, Barbaro Hieng Samobor, Matjažem Zupančičem, Evo Hribernik, Dragom Ivanušo, Boštjanom Gombačem, … Kot publicistka sodeluje z različnimi revijami in ustanovami: Revija Glasna, SIGIC, RTV, Cankarjev dom, … V letu 2019 je bila članica žirije Mednarodnega zborovskega tekmovanja »Cor Amare« v Sestri-Levante v Italiji, kjer je vodila tudi delavnico zborovske improvizacije z več kot sto udeleženci. Leta 2019 je ustanovila zbor in orkester Musica Emonica s katerim izvaja vokalno-instrumentalna klasicistična dela v povezavi z novostmi slovenskih sodobnih skladateljev.