| Brest
Boychoir, Belarus
The boyschoir of the Palace
of Culture of the Trade unions of the city of Brest was founded in 1982
by the graduate of the Belarusian Academy of Music Alla Igumnova who is
the art director and the conductor of this collective.
Brest
Boyschoir is the laureate of many international and republican
competitions and festivals the winner of the Grad Prix and of the first
Prix "Golden String" of the XX-th international Competition (Poland)
the laureate of the Prix of the President of Belarus, the winner of the
first World Choir Olympiads in Linds (Austria).
The choir works
in the system of amateur art creative work. However it has come as
close as possible to the perfect sound of the professional collectives.
In 1985 the chapel was awarded the name of the "Exemplary Art
Collective" and became to cooperate with Central TV (Moscow) very
closely that was the place where a number of programs were made. Since
1986 the Chapel Started taking past in many festivals in the Baltic
Republics, in the so called choir festivals and thus they gained the
experience from the best choirs of the former Soviet Union. In 1990 the
Chapel became a participant of the international festival of choirs in
Poland, gave a number of concerts in Warsaw, Lublin, Pulavy, Poznan,
Byalo-Podlyaska, Tchenstokovo, Khainovka, Bygdoshy. The chapel became
the winner of the first prix "Golden String" in the nomination "Choirs
tuning fork a capella" in 1997 in Bygdoshy during the XX-th
international competition. It also won Grand Prix of that competition.
Soloist A . Semenyuk was also awarded a name of the best soloist of the
musical competition.
In 1997-1998 the choir made several radio
performances and there were also made several films. In January 1998
during the 2nd international competition of Spiritual Music in Minsk
the chapel got the second Prix and the name of the laureate. Then there
was participation in the VIII international festival of Spiritual Music
"Gaude Mater" in Chenstohovo (Poland) in the VII-th international
festival of Spiritual Music in Khainovka (Poland), in the festival of
folkart "Belarus is my song in the XV-XVI international festivals of
the World Orchestras (in Briv, France). In 1990-2000 the chapel started
preparing the competition program and its participation in the old
Choir Olympiad in Lints(Austria) and as the result the chapel was
awarded the Golden Medal and the Diploma in the nomination "Traditional
Spiritual Music of the 19-20th Centuries a capella.
Nowadays
the chapel has two big concert programs: the first one consists of
spiritual orthodox music and includes such complex compositions as the
choir concert by M.Belezovski "Ne otverzhi menya vo vremya starosty"
the fragments of the Liturgia of St. Ioann Zlatoust by P.Chesnokov
fragments of the cycle "Vsenoshchnogo Bdeniya" by S. Rakhmaninov and
etc. the second one the public consists of the compositions by Western,
Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, classic, compositions by modern authors
and folksongs.
Contact: Alla Igumnova, Brest, Belarus: E-mail: ivic@tut.by, tel/fax: +375-162-475757
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