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22nd national choir competition “Naša pesem”

The 22nd national choir competition “Naša pesem”, organised by the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities, the Union of Cultural Societies and the municipality of Maribor, took place on the 21 and 22 April 2012 in the Union Hall, Maribor. The stage was taken over by the 20 competing choirs and 2 vocal groups that were being evaluated by the 5-member jury consisting of Martina Batič (chair), Andraž Hauptman, Karmina Šilec (all from Slovenia), Enrique Azurza (Basque Provinces/Spain) and Wilma ten Wolde (The Netherlands).


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The Zbor sv. Nikolaja Litija Choir conducted by Helena Fojkar Zupančič came in second place (91,7 points) and received a golden plaque and an award for the best performance of an arrangement of a Slovenian folk song (ex aequo) for the performance of the song “Eno drevce mi je zraslo”, arranged by Ambrož Čopi. The international jury awarded the choir’s conductor Helena Fojkar Zupančič with a special award for the best conductor of the competition.


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“Me and the other members of the choir were very satisfied with the preparations for the competition which were very relaxed but at the same time effective and left us well-prepared for the competition. When we took the stage of the competition we had no stage fright, instead we put all our focus towards singing and expressiveness. Our greatest pleasure was performing the piece “Iz kamna v vodi” by Lojze Lebič. The performance was made even more magical with the choreography that was created especially for this occasion. While performing this piece we were joined on stage by Tomaž Kmetič (synthesiser), Tomaž Vouk and Maja Povše (percussion instruments). The audience in the Union Hall felt our devotion to music and awarded us with a long applause and numerous congratulations. We are very happy about coming in second and receiving a golden plaque and two special awards. We are also thankful to have traveled this amazing path with our reformed ensemble and to have put a cherry on top of this amazing season.“


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The winner of this year’s “Naša pesem” became Komorni mešani zbor Megaron from Ljubljana (92,7 points) conducted by Damijan Močnik and the third place was taken by Mešani pevski zbor Obala, Koper (90,3 points) conducted by Sebastjan Vrhovnik.

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