First Regional School Choir Competition “Kolędujmy wraz”
Choral training camps
Since 2009 the Association is organising Choral Training Camps in Poronin In Tatry Mountains. Its participants are talented schoolgirls from high schools in Lodz. During the camps the youth acquire and perfects skills in:
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individual and collective voice emission techniques
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solfeggio problems
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Training of melodical and harmonical hearing
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Making music in choir
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Vocal interpretation of musical pieces, especially works of contemporary composers
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Shaping musical sensitivity and imagination
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Proper voice hygiene
Beside choir rehersals which are led by choirmaster and conductor – Krzysztof Kozłowski, during which the participants are provided with many different attractions for example: tour of Zakopane and Tatry National Park.
In January of 2014 Iuvenales Cantores Lodziensis – pro Europe Association and Youth Place of Culture in Aleksandrów Łódzki organized First Regional School Choir Competition “Kolędujmy wraz”. The main topic of competition was Christmas carols, pastorals and Christmas themed songs. The event was continuation of Christmas carol happenings which were, in previous years held in Miejski Dom Kultury within the National Development Programme School Choir “Śpiewająca Polska” . The patrons of the competition were National Centre for Culture in Warsaw , Voivode of Lodz - Jolanta Chełmińska, Curator of education in Lodz - Jan Kamiński and Mayor of Aleksandrów Łódzki - Jacek Lipiński. Grand Prix award was funded by the Association of „Iuvenales Cantores Lodziensis - pro Europe" .
In 2014 The Association of „Iuvenales Cantores Lodziensis - pro Europe” was co-organizer of European Summer Meeting of the Philharmonic and Choir in Lodz.
Since april of 2014 the Association of „Iuvenales Cantores Lodziensis - pro Europe” is organizational coordinator of the Lodz region in program of National Centre for Culture – Singing Polish. The program is addressed to school choirs and supports their development through funding of lessons and methodological supervision of teachers directing choirs.
European Summer Meeting of the Philharmonic and Choir
Singing Poland
Cooperation with the Choral Arts School The name of Stefan Krzyżanowski in Odessa
In 2012 The Association of „Iuvenales Cantores Lodziensis - pro Europe” have started cooperation with the Choral Arts School The name of Stefan Krzyżanowski in Odessa, which in September of 2013 resulted in a week trip of Youth, Interschool female choir “Iuvenales Cantores Lodzienses” to Odessa. The funds were obtained from National Centre for Cultures’ program “Polish – Ukrainian youth exchange” by The Association. In August of 2014 The Association organized visit to Poland for the Odessas’ choir “Kantylena” of course within the program of National Centre for Culture.