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Tschechien Canticum Novum Dirigent: Dr. Leszek Kalina Homepage: www.arsmusica.cz email: cn@arsmusica.cz The Mixed Choir CANTICUM NOVUM started its existence thanks to the Polish Artistic Society Ars Musica and acts since September 1999. The founder and its artistic director is Leszek Kalina, PhD. and members rank from among previous members of The Student's Choir Collegium Iuvenum. At present the choir has 55 members aged between 18-39 years. The famous voice pedagogy specialist prof. Dr. Alojzy Suchanek, Csc. cooperates with the choir. The repertoire of the choir consists of polyphonic, classicist and romanticist works, arrangements of folklore songs and dance music, contemporary and experimental works – in a word the ensemble tries to create maximal genre variety and repertoire universality. The choir is the member of Musical and Choral Organzation of Polish Choirs in the Těšín region, The Association of Choirs and Orchestras in Warsaw and the Union of the Czech Choirs. The most important successes: 2000: participation in the non-competitive Festival of the Choral Art in Jihlava and first world-wide performance a composition 2001: inaugural concert of the Second Worldwide Compatriot congress in the Saint Cross Cathedral in Warsaw 2001: Getting the third prize in the First Festival of Silesian Choirs in Ustroń 2002: participation in the non-competitive Fifth International Choral Festival Alta Pusteria in Italy, where the choir was unofficially branded as one of the best choirs that took part in the festival 2002: Getting the second prize in the XII Competition of Polish Choirs in Katowice