The oratorio form began to emerge around the year 1600, mainly in Rome. First compositions of this kind lacked the ambitions of the masterpieces of supreme Baroque era and later. The first composer using this form was Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674). His best known oratorio, Historia di Jepthe, is based on several references within the Old Testament about the Jewish king Jephte and his daughter, unnamed in the Bible. The king unknowingly promised to sacrifice her, if the God grants him a victory over the Ammonites. You can learn how it fell out in this atelier, as we will perform the oratorio (about 20 minutes of beautiful music for solo, choir and basso continuo) on Saturday concert. Its final choir is one of the best composition for the choir in the 17th century. At the Sunday concert we will step out of the old music canon while performing the Mendelssohn's psalm Jauchzet dem Herrn and the mysterious piece Sweep My Soul, it will certainly be worth it.

Love, life and death. All in one and one in all. The testimonies of Romani songs are targeted directly to the heart. Once you meet them, they will stay with you forever. The emotions are absolute and powerful – both for the listeners and for the performers. Songs traditional and modern, in incredibly becoming arrangements: come to meet and fall in love.

I do not know a composer who can express more with less effort. Janáček just needs one motive and I smell a fire, I see clouds in the sky, stabbing you at heart, heart laughing, soul flying home. Without sentimentality, alive, with a courtly feeling, with sharp eyesight and genius, he distills the music of forests, fields, animals, but mainly humans, into short, powerful chants and sends them into battle like a general. To life, to life!
In Elegy on the death of daughter Olga, Janáček lays out all his love for his daughter. In the Nursery Rhymes, he offers us a masterpiece composition, a musical wit, but above all a fiery heart and wide eyes of a child.

Let's fly through several continents and taste the music of diverse cultures, languages and emotions; traditional one, but mostly in a more modern version.
Singing is the voice of our hearts, so let them sing together with the joy and enthusiasm.
In this atelier we will turn the energy and emotions of individual compositions into delicious tones, but also into movements, so that the result brings lightness and pleasure to the choir and listeners.

Movie soundtrack is a contemporary phenomenon of music creation. In this atelier we will perform compositions in which the choir is an essential part of the soundtrack of well-known movies such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc.