Milan Kolena
Milan Kolena
Choir conductor / artist director
Conductor of choir Apollo and Schola Gregoriana Bratislavensis
Art director of music festivals in Bratislava
Chairman / member of jury in international choir competitions
Pedagogue of University of Performing Arts – international choir lectures and workshops
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Teaching and lectures

Pedagogic activities at University of Performing Arts in Bratislava
Department of composition and conducting

  • Choir conducting
  • Interpretation of various style periods
  • Interpretation,  semiology and conducting of Gregorian chant
     

Within the Erazmus programme – teaching foreign students of Performing Arts University:

Winter+ Summer semester 2018/2019

Agnesse Korvstileva, choir conducting, Riga, Latvia

Winter semester 2011

Agnieszka Więckiewicz, zborové dirigovanie, Bydgoszcz, Poľsko

Summer semester 2010

Marta Mysluk, zborové dirigovanie, Bydgoszcz, Poľsko

Summer semester 2009

Karolina Gut, zborové dirigovanie, Katowice, Poľsko

Summer semester 2008

Alexandra Solecka, zborové dirigovanie, Bydgoszcz, Poľsko

Lectures at international level

10 July 2018

Conductor´s Workshop at the World Chir Games 2018, Tshwane, South Africa

12 - 14 April 2018

Lecturing at the Music Academy in Riga - Erasmus program, Riga, Latvia

16 - 19 April 2018

Lecturing at the American University in Bulgaria - Erasmus program, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

07 - 09 June 2018

Lecturing at the Music Academy in Riga - Erasmus program, Riga, Latvia

23 - 28 May 2017

Erasmus Programme: lectures at the Gdansk Music Academy, Poland

03 - 08 February 2016

Lectures at the Misckolc University - Erasmus programme

http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/en

03 - 06 June 2016

Master classes with choirs in Kunming, China

25 - 31 May 2015

Erasmus program - Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland

4 -5 June 2015

Master class in Hong Kong

6 June 2015

Master class in Wuhan, China

8 June 2015

Master class in Shanghai, China

18 October 2015

Workshop within the festival on the Interpretation of Latin texts in the sacred choral compositions, Bielsko-Biała, Poland

31 October 2015

Workshop on Monodic Chant within the Malta International Choir Festival, Valetta, Malta

3.3.2014

Choir workshop at Wesleyan University, USA

4.3.2014

Choir workshop at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

14.3.2014

Choir workshop at Colorado State University, USA

7.4.2014

Lecture at the symposium "Sacred music and today", Banská Bystrica

9.-10.4.2014

Lecture at the international conference in Gdansk, Poland

24.-29.5.2014

Workshop during the "Erasmus programe", Music university Gdans, Poland

13.– 18.5.2013

Erazmus programme: workshop: Interpretation issues Anton Bruckner: Mottets

The Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music, Gdansk, Poland

www.amuz.gda.pl

21.– 24.5.2012

Erazmus programme: workshop: Interpretation issues in Renaissance choir music,

Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Poland

www.uwm.edu.pl

26.11.2010

Workshop: Sacred choir compositions of Anton Bruckner ; International choir festival Cantate Domino 2010, Kaunas, Lithuania

http://www.kaunascantat.lt/

26.11.2010

Workshop within program Erazmus: Sacred choir compositions of Anton Bruckner ; Music faculty in Kaunas, Lithuania

http://www.kaunascantat.lt/

30.7.-4.8.2010

Workshop: Interpretation of Renaissance polyphony ; International choir festival The Singing World, St. Petersburg, Russia

http://www.singingworld.spb.ru/

27.11.2009

Workshop: Interpretation of Renaissance choir music ; International choir festival Cantate Domino 2009, Kaunas, Lithuania

http://www.kaunascantat.lt/

27.11.2009

Workshop within program Erazmus: Common interpretation features in Gregorian chant and classic vocal polyphony ;  Music faculty in Kaunas, Lithuania
http://www.kaunascantat.lt/

23.3.2007

Workshop: Interpretation of Gregorian chant ; choir competition Ogolnopolsi konkurs, Bydgoszcz, Poland

19.5.2007

Workshop: Interpretation of Renaissance choir music ; Námestovo music festiva, Slovakia

http://www.choral-music.sk/en/festival/detail/1