ART AGENCY PRAGUE & FESTINFO & TRAVEL NO.1, s.r.o.
in professional cooperation with
The Municipal Library of Prague
held
a display of music cultures of nations in
the field of music folklore of children and youth under the title
MUSIC TEMPERED BY YOUTH – PRAGUE 2011
The main concert of invited
ensembles took place in the congress hall of the Top Hotel in Prague in the
Czech Republic on 12th March 2011. Several important representatives
from embassies of various countries, representatives of the city of Prague, The
Municipal Library in Prague, pedagogues from Charles University in Prague and
journalists took part in the festival. The opening ceremony started with a
welcome speech by the National Coordinator of the European Association for Music in Schools for the Czech Republic –
Dr. Miloš Kodejška, CSc., who is a docent at
Charles University in Prague. He expressed his acknowledgement to all members
and directors of the ensembles for their praiseworthy initiatives and
emphasized that national folk songs and dances are
true treasure not only of individual countries but of the whole Europe. He
thanked all towns, regions and cultural institutions that helped all
participating ensembles to come to Prague and to pass their cultural values
through the means of their artistic performance.
Dear Friends of
music!
It is my great pleasure to welcome you in the beautiful
city of Prague, which is located in the heart of Europe. Prague is a city with
long-standing cultural and social traditions, where many important historical
events took place. The international festival Music Tempered by Youth Prague
2011 carries the idea that singing and dancing unite people from different
countries. Each ensemble brings to Prague their precious national and local
cultural traditions, which are being passed from generation to generation. They
are real gem stones! Thank you for showing true values, for motivating the
others and last but not least, for making other people’s lives richer and
happier. Welcome to Prague and thank you for being here!!!
doc.
Dr. Miloš Kodejška, CSc.
EAS National Coordinator for CZ
Charles University in Prague, CZ
Dear Friends,
the organisation Festinfo holds many cultural events every year. One of
them is the international festival Music Tempered by Youth Prague 2011. We
successfully organised many other cultural activities, such as the festival of
modern dances in November 2010. I am happy that our projects still grow on
importance in Prague as well as in Europe. I wish all ensembles a pleasant stay
in Prague and beautiful memories of this year´s folklore festival.
Dragan Petković
Director of Festinfo
Novi Sad, Serbia
Dear Friends,
it is my great pleasure to cooperate with Festinfo on organisation of
cultural activities, which are directed by Mr. Dragan Petković. For my agency Travel No. 1, s.r.o., the most important thing is that
all participants of the festival are satisified with the whole stay in Prague.
My team is doing the maximum so that all participants are contented, because I
know that conditions matter. I wish all members of ensembles a pleasant stay in
Prague and I hope that you will keep returning and enjoy the services of Travel
No. 1, s.r.o.. I think that music really has the power to unite nations and
make our lives happier. That is why I wish you a lot of joy and Good Luck with
the festival Music Tempered by Youth Prague 2011!!!
Sven Magdić
Director of Travel No. 1, s.r.o.
Prague, Czech Republic
KULTURNO-UMJETNIČO DRUŽSTVO “GORJANAC”, GORJANI
The
president of the ensemble is Darko Kelava.
The Company was founded in 1966 and keeps the
tradition and customs of the village and the surrounding area of Gorjani. Currently, it has 75 active members and 20 members
who are financing the society.
CULTURAL
TOMISLAV
Cultural Tomislav has
been active since 1903. It was founded as a singing society. Later, the
ensemble focused on folklore music. Our folklore group preserves traditional
folk songs and dances of our region as well as the
whole
Croatia.
For
tonight's performance we have prepared choreography Three
girls want a grain and we
will show traditional songs and dances of Slovenia.
ENSEMBLE
DAWN (ZORA)
GROUP LEADER: Mato Ručević
LEADER OF TAMBURAŠI: Toni Tandara
DIRECTOR: Marko Tubić
The
folklore society DAWN from PIŠKOREVACA was founded in 1927 as a singing society
and since then, it has been very active, having only several short breaks.
Today, the society has about 60 active members and has several sections:
singing, folklore, children´s section and section of players on tamburas.
For
many years ''Dawn'' is the organizer of the event titled 'PIŠKOREVAČKI SOKACI'
in which about 10 folklore groups participate.
ENSEMBLE SV. BENEDIKT
The ensemble Sv. Benedict
comes from Zagreb, and was founded in 2006. The artistic director is prof. Irene Markulin, and the
president is Vladimir Štarkelj. The ensemble consists
of 33 members of the most varied educational, age and experiential music and
singing profile. In its short existence, they recorded two albums:
"Christmas yours and mine" and "I will recognize love" with
songs of a spiritual character.
Program:
1.Milost – a capella,
2.Silan Bog – a capella, 3.Prepoznat ću ljubav 4.Da te samo dotaknem 5.Što je
to, Bože moj – Klara Marinčević,soloist 6. Po kruhu život vječiti 7.O, ljubavi ja pjevam – Marko Ježić,soloist
8.Bože, Tebi pjevam ja – Ivana Gusak,soloist 9.Moj Isus
Songs in reserve:
1.Rijeke žive vode –
Ivana Gusak,soloist 2.Zašto taj nemir 3. Pusti mreže te 4. On među nas je došao
ENSEMBLE Mičevec
DIRECTOR: Tatjana Rulek
CHOREOGRAPHER: Goran Stokić
i Mojmir Golemac
MUSIC: Ivan Potočnik
LEADER OF THE SINGING GROUP: Irena Markulin
LEADER OF INSTRUMENTS: Vladimir Štarkelj
LEADER OF THE DANCE GROUP: Goran Stokić
The society
comes from Velika Gorica,
has 113 members and has been active since 1996. It is divided into five
sections: a female vocal ensemble, a junior and a senior tambourine band, a
children and an older folk group. Folklore Society presents the folklore of Turopolja, Posavina, Vukomeričke gorice and Pokuplje.
Annually,
it has thirty performances and is the only company with its own library. In
2003, it was awarded by the Zagreb County for their achievements in the
preservation of folklore culture.
The society is implementing the project TRADITIONAL CULTURE IN
CONTEMPORARY TOURISM and presented it in Hungary and Slovenia. The program
educates and creates public opinions and promotes fundamental values of
cultural heritage in the area of Zagreb and Zagreb County in Croatia.
CULTURAL
ASSOCIATION OF THRACE
The Cultural Association of Thrace based
in Brussels, Belgium, was created in 1980 by Greek immigrants coming from the
province of Thrace in Greece. Our association is composed by one thousand
members within Belgium and our folk dance groups include 80 young dancers (from
4 to 25 years) split in three groups (small, medium and young).The main
objectives of the association are:
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Organization of cultural and social activities in link with the province of
Thrace.
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Teaching folk dances from the province of Thrace as well as from all over
Greece.
CULTURAL
SOCIETY OF PENTALOFOS
CONTACT:
Dimitris Marras
TEL.-FAX: 00302441022852,
TEL.MOB.: 00306932943313
E-MAIL: dimimara@otenet.gr
In
the beautiful district of Thessaloniki and in the distance of fifteen kilometers
away from the center of the city, you
can visit the Municipality of Kallithea and the Community of Pentalofos. The Cultural Society of Pentalofos
was established in 1982. There are almost three hundred members. The purposes and priorities
of our Society are mainly
to preserve the folk tradition
and to develop
activities like dancing,
theater, painting and
gymnastics.
Till now, we have achieved many of our
targets: one hundred and fifty children and teenagers have joined the dance
groups. They have been trained to dance
Greek dances from all over the country, especially the Macedonian ones.
The dance groups that are going to perform today have
taken part in
many festivals here
in Greece as well as abroad (Hungary,
France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Czech Republic, Croatia,Turkey and
Serbia) with success.
Twice
per year, we organize cultural
activities with Greek and foreign dance groups.
Besides
this, we organize lectures very often with interesting speakers on cultural,
social and medical issues.
The
Cultural Society of Pendalofos plays a very important
role in our district. We are very interested in developing cultural activities
as well as taking other initiatives.
We believe that we will gain support in
this effort by other cultural societies.
ASSOCIATION VLATSIOTON PTOLEMAIDAS "PROFITIS ELIAS"
CONTACT :
DIMITRIS MARRAS
TEL.-FAX:
0030-24410-22852
TEL.-MOB: 0030-6932943313
E-MAIL: dimimara@otenet.gr
The Associaton VLATSIOTON PTOLEMAIDAS "PROFITIS
ELIAS" was founded in 1963 by a group of young people, inhabitants of a
village called VLASTE (a
mountainous beautiful village in the northwest part of northern Greece), who
came to live at a near city called PTOLEMAIDA.
The purpose of creating this association was to preserve, continue and revive local dances, songs and customs of
VLASTE.
Ιn 1977 the first adult dancing group was established. Ιn 1980 two more groups joined: a children’s and an adolescents’ dancing
group. At the same time a traditional group of singers was established; this chorus performs traditional songs of VLASTE.
The Associaton’s dancing groups participated
in many folklore festivals both in Greece and abroad and have always gained appreciative
comments by the audience. The ASSOCIATION VLATSIOTON PTOLEMAIDAS has also
developed a rich activity organizing cultural manifestations both in Vlaste and Ptolemaida.
Since the summer of 1998 the
ASSOCIATION VLATSIOTON PTOLEMAIDAS has established a meeting of folklore
dancing groups which takes place at the picturesque village of Vlaste.
CHAMBER
CHOIR „MUSICA HUMANA“
The chamber choir „Musica Humana” from Ada was founded in
1993 by the initiative of the group of
teachers from The Music School „Bartok Bela“ from Ada. Lippai Monika has been the conductor since 2004. The art
director is Birkaš Janoš. The chamber choir „Musica Humana” has been primarily
cherishing choral singing in their community and in the whole country since
2001. Ada is the host and the chamber choir „Musica Humana” is the main
organizer of the concerts of mixed choirs of the international choral festival „Bardoš Lajoš“.
ENSEMBLE G. MILANOVAC
The women´s choir of the grammar school „Takovski
ustanak“-SERBIA, is performing spiritual and traditional music by composers
from our country as well as from abroad. The conductor is Prof.Petar Rančev.
The performances of the choir are always very successful at competitions and
during the last year the women´s choir was twice awarded – with the first prize
at the Republic competition in Novi Sad and with the bronze medal at the same competition of youth choirs in
Novi Pazar.
Besides participation at competitions, the choir
performed at numerous celebrations and manifestations in schools,
companies...in Gornji Milanovac and surrounding towns.
„PITOMAČANKA“ FROM PITOMAČA
PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION: Milan
Šelimber
The
artistic association PITOMAČANKA from Pitomača was founded in 1985 by our
mothers and grandmothers. The association has got the name PITOMAČANKA because
at the beggining of its existence, it consisted of women only from the region
Pitomača.
ENSEMBLE IVAN VITEZ TRNSKI
St. Stjepana Radića 56
43272 Nova Rača
Nova Raca is a village situated in the valley between the road Bjelovar - Zagreb, and the River Česme.
Nova Raca village is mentioned in historical
documents dating back to 1245 when it belonged to the old tribe Česma. The cultural and artistic association Ivan Vitez Trnski was founded in the
50s of the last century.
Since
1983, traditionally at the end of May, we have been organizing folklore
meetings with the main goal of fostering diversity and richness of folklore
heritage and folk customs of our country, of cooperation and friendship with
cultural and art associations from all over Croatia and abroad.
ENSEMBLE
ŚUMADIJA
So far, we
have achieved many of our targets. For example, we are double winners of
the city contest "Amateurs of our own city 2009 and 2010“
for children, and we officially became the best children's ensemble in
Belgrade! We won the first prize in the children’s folk dance competition in
Belgrade "Ethno league 2006" and our success was repeated in the
"Ethno league 2007", and the "Ethno league 2008", where we
could be proud of extremely positive reviews of our performances, which were
rated as a very attractive view of national songs and dances. During the 12th
Balkan competitive children's folklore festival "Ohrid
2007", we won the first prize for technical and stylistic coordination of
the ensemble.
For
the past five successive seasons we have been providing our audience with
successful annual concerts. We showed a variety of programs with attractive
choreography by our art directors and choreographers Ivan and Dragan Zmiric, which comprised
dances from different regions of our country. We were awarded with excellent
reviews by the most influential specialists in the world of folklore music! We
celebrated five years of the folk dance ensemble by a very beautiful concert in
the " Dom sindikata",
and it turned to be complete success.
We
participated in over 100 concerts in our country and abroad, we performed at
all the great scenes in Belgrade, and abilities of our dancers are admired by
more than 20.000 people. Our performances were
shown on TV (Happy, Pink, Kanal D), and the greatest
reward came when we could participate in "Zikina
sarenica" on the national television. The local
and national press have written beautiful reports and
announcements of our concerts!
We
managed to organize four concerts entitled "Šumadija
05 and friends." Events that have already become a tradition, gather a
large number of folk dance ensembles from Belgrade, with the aim to establish
good relationships and contacts among dance
ensembles and to help the children become better artists.
The
greatest praise for our young dance ensemble is that we have all acted in
accordance with the norms of cultural society, and the dance ensemble showed a
high level of education and friendship.
We
visited 20 cities: Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Verona,
Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Thessaloniki, San Marino, Pesaro, Ohrid,
Hanioti…
Program:
Dances
from Western Serbia • Dances from Nisava Valey • Shepherd dances from Eastern
Serbia • Dances from Banat • Dances from Central Serbia • Dances from Pirot •
Dances from Leskovac • Dances from Kosovo • Katanka • Dances from South-eastern
Serbia • Dances from Serbia • Vodarke – Girls who bring water – dances from
Macedonia • Shopsko dances • Dances from Vojvodina • Dances from Bujanovac
Folk
dance ensemble “Šumadija 05” has:
- children’s folklore ensemble
- senior folklore ensemble
- singing group
- music orchestra
- national costumes
- all night folklore program
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATION KAMEŠNICA – ISLAND ON CETINA
ADDRESS: Trg Franje Tuđmana 8
PRESIDENT :
Ante Norac – Kevo
GROUP
LEADER : Josip Brčić
The
artistic association Kamešnica was founded in 1998.
It was initiated by the citizens of Island. From the beginning, the purpose of
this association was to preserve old songs, music and customs of this region.
ENSEMBLE
“ARAGATSI SHOGHER”
The dance group “Aragatsi shogher” was founded in 1980 and
year by year
by developing and changing generation is working till
nowadays. Our members start dancing at the age of 11.
The repertoire of the ensemble consists of traditional Armenian national and folk dances. The music group of the ensemble contains national Armenian music instruments such as zurna, dhol, duduk, qamancha,etc...The musicians are adults.The costumes of the group are designed and made according to typical Armenian ornaments; they are very original and specific.The group has taken part in a large number of international festivals, for example in Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary etc... and has gained a lot of success.
CULTURAL CENTER OF FALANIS
AND SARANTAPOROU
CONTACT:
DIMITRIS MARRAS
Tel-fax 0030-24410-22852
Tel –mob
0030-6932943313
Email: dimimara@otenet.gr
Falanis cultural center was founded in 1996. The center
offers classes of painting, music, and dance. The number of classes is up to
200. The ladies´ club consists of 60 members and performs traditional dances of
every single area of Greece! Without doubt, the center has gained a remarkable
reputation in the world.
CULTURAL DANCING ASSOCIATION
OF
THRAKES KOMOTINI
CONTACT: DIMITRIS MARRAS
Tel-fax 0030-24410-22852
Tel-mob 0030-6932-943313
Email: dimimara@otenet.gr
Tel
The CULTURAL DANCING ASSOCIATION OF THRAKES KOMOTINI
(POLITISTIKOS CHOREFTIKOS SILLOGOS THRAKON KOMOTINIS - PCHSTHK) was established
in November 2008 by people who have common love: traditional music and dances
of Greece and particularly of Thrace.
The CULTURAL DANCING ASSOCIATION OF THRAKES KOMOTINI
accounts more than 250 members, most of whom have a long-term relationship with
traditional dances, through their participation in other cultural associations
and their self-interest. The main purpose of this Association is to maintain
and rescue the tradition of our area and
nation.
In the short time of its existence it has participated in a lot of events all over Greece
and took part in some of the most important TV programs concerning tradition
and culture presenting a wide
range of dances and various traditional costumes.
Pchsthk's main concern is to maintain customs and traditions and to study of historical, cultural
and traditional physiognomy of Thrace and the rest of Greece. Special attention
is given to dances and songs, considered by the most ancestral and social
happenings the only purpose of maintaining, rescuing and viewing them.
Τhe eleven dancing groups of the
association account more than 230 dancers from all ages, 3 children’s groups, adolescents, adults (beginning and advanced) even the
teachers are becoming its members. There are taught dances from all over
Greece, while there is a particular preoccupation with the music and dance
tradition generally.
The association owns a great number of original traditional costumes from various regions of
Thrace and elsewhere.
LAOGRAFIKI
ESTIA TRIPOLIS
LAOGRAFIKI ESTIA TRIPOLIS was established in 2007 by a group of dancers and people involved in the Greek tradition and especially in the traditional dance for many years. Based in the historic capital of Arcadia, it has already developed a rich action in Greece taking part in nationwide and international festivals, state television broadcasts, and has developed a considerable research activity in dance, music and costume. Currently, the Association has more than 20 groups which comprise children, teens and adults and is leading the effort to organize an international festival in Arcadia, believing in the brotherhood of people through their national identity and common human expression through music and traditional dances.
ENSEMBLE
FOR BULGARIAN DANCES KITKA
ENSEMBLE
MLADOST
PALE CROATIA
ENSEMBLE
GORGANI
LWOW, UKRAINE
THE
ASSOCIATION OF
TSARITSANI´S WOMEN
CONTACT : DIMITRIS MARRAS
Tel-fax: 00302441022852
Tel –mob: 00306932943313
Email: dimimara@otenet.gr
The Association of Tsaritsani's
Women was founded in 1988. It's goal is to provide farmers´women with supplies, knowledge and abilities so
that they can autonomously define their lives. Today, it accounts 400
registered members and it is addressed to every woman regardless of her age. A brief report in the programs that have functioned from
1988 until today convince us about its progressiveness. Departments of chorus,
painting, embroidery, chess and traditional dancing are some of them. The
dancing departments are constituted by 150 men and women dancers aged from 4 to
64 years, who through participating in traditional festivals are presenting Tsaritsani not olny in Greece but
also abroad.
The Association organizes cultural events such as the Clean Monday with
traditional bean soup and dances from Thessaly including the traditional dance gaitanaki, and secondly the <<pie feast>> that
takes place each year in August, a traditional festival of flavours
and
dances from the whole Greece. Briefings with lectures and discussions by
chosen intellectual persons and academics are provided to women, with topics on
health, social care issues and with educational and training programs that facilitate
their integration in the job market. Last but not least, the program <<parents school>> helps new parents by giving them
helpful advice.
A lot of women passed,
configured and completed programs, supported initiatives or covered needs,
worked voluntarily and together with partners contributed to recognition of the
Association of Tsaritsani's Women as a social organisation with morals, useful in the women's world and
in the youth.
CULTURAL CENTER OF FALANIS
AND SARANTAPOROU
CONTACT:
DIMITRIS MARRAS
Tel-fax 0030-24410-22852
Tel –mob
0030-6932943313
Email: dimimara@otenet.gr
Falanis cultural center was founded in 1996. The center
offers classes of painting, music, and dance. The number of classes is up to
200. The ladies´ club consists of 60 members and performs traditional dances of
every single area of Greece! Without doubt, the center has gained a remarkable
reputation in the world.