Children’s Choir of the Radio Television of Serbia
The RTS Children’s Choir occupies an important place in musical life, not only in Belgrade and Serbia, but also outside the borders of our country. In addition to his concert activities, he actively records for the needs of Radio Television of Serbia.
The Children’s Choir was start with work in 1947 as an ensemble of Radio Belgrade. The founders and first conductors were Ljubomir Kocić and Srđan Barić. With the arrival of Zlatan Vauda as conductor in 1952, the Choir received defined artistic directions aimed at affirming compositions of children’s music, significant choral works and vocal-instrumental compositions by domestic and foreign artists. This programming policy was maintained during more than seven decades of performing practice, which was continued and marked by the conductors who worked with the ensemble later, Amalija Milaković (1987-1993) and Snežana Despotović (1994-).
Throughout history, important domestic and foreign conductors have collaborated with the Choir, among which Borivoje Simić, Dušan Skovran, Angel Šurev, Mirko Šouc, Živojin Zdravković, Mladen Jagušt, Oskar Danon, Stanko Jovanović, Vladimir Kranjčević, Jaša Horenstein, Bjerge Wagner, Vladimir Minjin, Karolos Trikolidis, Steven Barlow, Andrej Pavlič, David Porcelain, Zubin Mehta and Bojan Sudjic.
The Choir performed at all important festivals in Yugoslavia and Serbia, and he also had successful tours in Europe.
Hundreds of recordings are archived in the Sound Archive of Radio Belgrade, and many of this recordings are published. The ensemble continuously inherits permanent recordings of domestic and international choral literature.
The Choir is the recipient of domestic and foreign awards and special awards for interpretation, among which the “Vojislav Ilić Award” for authentic performance of spiritual music, the grand prix at the “International Competition of Children’s Choirs” in Prague, the “Konstantin Babić” charter for long-term promotion of children’s choirs stand out, of creativity, the “Joy of Europe” charter and others.
The RTS Children’s Choir is a modern ensemble that, with its interpretations, follows world trends in nurturing the repertoire, which includes the most significant works of a cappella domestic choral music written for children’s ensembles, parts of the children’s choir in capital vocal-instrumental compositions of different eras, as well as opera works. Also, the repertoire of this ensemble includes compositions from ethno, popular and movie music.
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