Youth female choir of the Youth Cultural Center Skopje / Singing Bridges
The Macedonian Cultural Center’s youth female choir will hold a concert on July 21 in the Synagogue, as part of the “Singing Bridges” choral festival.
Since 1972 the Youth female choir is one of the most recognizable features of the Youth Cultural Center (MKC) in Skopje. Performing a vast repertoire including authors from all musical styles and periods with special attention to sacred music and Macedonian choir literature, this ensemble proves that even amateur singers can achieve highly professional results. During this 50 years long period of existence the choir has won many awards and prizes from domestic and international festivals and competitions which promoted it in a true cultural ambassador of Macedonia. To name just a few, the choir won the highest awards (first prizes, special prizes and GRAND PRIX awards) on choir competitions in Croatia, Poland, Turkey, Romania and Slovakia just in the past decade.
Besides its regular concerts and tours, the choir also participates in various projects with other ensembles, soloists and groups in promoting new and nonstandard repertoire, thus encouraging young authors to write new choral and vocal-instrumental music. As a result, two CDs were published in the last five years with new music for choir, various instrumental ensembles and fixed medium.
Sasho Tatarchevski earned his master`s degree of choral, symphonic and opera conducting at the Faculty of Music in Skopje. He also attended conducting master classes in New York, Rome, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Florence, Sarteano and Moscow.
Mr. Tatarchevski has performed with the Macedonian philharmonic, the Macedonian opera and ballet, the Bitola chamber orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di ICE – Rome, “Hermitage” Symphony Orchestra, the Bitola opera, the modern music ensembles “Alea” and “ConTempora”, the Symphony orchestra of the FM, the Symphony orchestra of the BSF and many other choral, chamber and symphonic ensembles. He regularly records all kinds of music with the F.A.M.E`S symphony orchestra and the “Pro Ars” choir.
Besides in Macedonia he has performed numerous concerts and won international prizes with various ensembles in Portugal, Slovenia, UK, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Russia, Austria, France, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Turkey. He also won several conducting prizes.
At the moment he works as a professor at the Faculty of Music in Skopje and conductor of “The soloists of the FM” chamber orchestra, the “Dragan Shuplevski” mixed choir, the Female choir of the Youth center and the “Pro Ars” professional choir. Also, he is a regular jury member of several international competitions and artistic director of the International choral forum in Struga.
Tickets are avaliable at the Synagogue, one hour before the concert. The ticket price is RSD 300. The revenue from the sold tickets goes to humanitarian purposes, the “Live Upright” Center.
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