ANIMA Student Academic Choir of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts

ANIMA Student Academic Choir of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts

ANIMA Student Academic Choir of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts was founded in 1968 as a creative laboratory for choir masters and as an active choir. 

Throughout its history, the choir was led by different significant Ukrainian conductors: Anatolii Markhlevskyi, Dmytro Radyk. Since 2005, the choir has been headed by Nataliia Krechko, associate professor and the Honoured Artist of Ukraine.

Nataliia Krechko

WINNER OF THE FOLLOWING CHORAL COMPETITIONS:

  • International Sacred Music Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland (1995, Grand Prix);
  • Ukrainian Lesia Ukrainka Choral Competition in Lutsk, Ukraine (1996, Grand Prix);
  • AllUkrainian Choral Competition named after M. Leontovych in Kyiv, Ukraine (1998, 2nd place);
  • 30th International May Choir Competition named after Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria (2008, 2nd place);
  • 14th Neuchâtel International Choral Festival, Switzerland (2012, special prize For the best performance and interpretation of the national program);
  • Gavriil Musicescu International Choral Music Contest in Iasi, Romania (2016, 2nd place);
  • International Bortnianskyi Competition in Kyiv, Ukraine (2018 р, 1st place).

INTERNATIONAL AND UKRAINIAN FESTIVALS:

  • Zolotoverkhyi Kyiv” (“GoldenDomed Kyiv”); 
  • Kyiv Music Fest;
  • International Guitar Music Festival “Kyiv – 2012;
  • 59th International Habaneras and Polyphony Music Contest of Torrevieja, Spain;
  • “Premiers of the Season; 
  • International Easter Assembly etc. 

LAST INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS: 

  • International creative and educational project between Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and Robert Schumann Hochschule (Düsseldorf) including several concerts and workshops in Ukraine and Germany (2017-2020);
  • Film Music Ennio Morricone (PalaceUkraine, 2011);
  • Music Parallels UkraineMexico (Bésame Mucho José Galvánа and Cielitolindo Carlosa Farfána) (Kyiv, 2018).

LAST SIGNIFICANT UKRAINIAN PROJECTS:

  • Ihor Shamo. Postlude documentary directed by Yuliia Lazarevska. Production by Inspiration Films at the request of Ukrainian State Film Agency (premiered at Kinopanorama Hall, 2014);
  • Baroque Perls concerts at the National Philarmonic of Ukraine in the cooperation with Philarmonic soloists and Kyiv Camerata National Soloist Ensemble (2017-2019);
  • MOZART LOpera Rock, Notre Dame de Paris (PalaceUkraine, 2019-2020).

AUDIO RECORDINGS: 

  •  ANIMA CD album. Compositions of Ukrainian authors from 18th century till these days (2007);
  • Performance at 22nd International Festival Kyiv Music Fest supported by National Union of Ukrainian Composers (2012).

COMPILATION ALBUMS:

  • Anthology of choral compositions based on Taras Shevchenko poems, project of the National Union of Ukrainian Composers (Ukraine, 2016).

Choir repertoire

Video

e-mail: anima.academ.choir@knukim.edu.ua

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