Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Male singing group

At  present this group has 9 members. It focuses mostly on performing of folk songs from the regions Podpoľanie and Horehronie. As accompanying instruments they use especially small accordion (heligónka), typical for songs of Podpoľanie, and accordion when singing songs of Horehronie.  Besides this, the members play also fujara (sheperd’s pipe), pipes and mouth-organs. Present occupancy of male singing group: Alexander Králik, Marian Böhmer, Vladislav Kmeť, Peter Kamenský, Marian Ďuriš, Jozef Hucák, Oto Getler, Vladimír Velkov, Martin Štulrajter.

Translated by Mgr. Zuzana Danihelová

Dance group

At present the dance group includes 16 female and 13 male dancers.

Female dancers: Katarína Kucháriková, Veronika Gašparová, Michaela Šuleková, Ivana Vajdová, Radka Strmeňová, Alena Vajdová, Margaréta Sojková, Dominika Baldovská, Martina Moťovská, Juliana Chudá, Katarína Balažková, Denisa Heldová, Martina Ťažká, Daniela Štulraiterová, Lucia Haluzová, Erika Kovácsová

Male dancers: Mário Očovai, Radovan Ostrolucký, Andrej Sýkora, Marek Baldovský, Marek Gonda, Ján Gonda, Florián Becze, Ondrej Remeň, Róbert Smreček, Pavol Sedlák, Peter Slávik, Lukáš Baran, Peter Čerman

The repertoire is composed of the choreographies from the regions: Podpoľanie (Detva, Hrochoť, Čerín), Horehronie (Šumiac, Pohorelá) amd Čierny Balog.

Translated by Mgr. Zuzana Danihelová

Folk music

Nowadays, the folk music consists of nine musicians: violin – Miroslav Danihel, Jozef Hlbocký, Matúš Pompura nad Andrej Trajtel, contra violine – Daniel Bebej, Jakub Bebej and Viktor Chudoba, accordion – Jakub Pisár and double bass – Ján Kliment. The repertoire of this group is composed of folk songs from regions: Podpoľanie (Detva, Čerín, Hrochoť…), Horehronie (Šumiac, Pohorelá) and Čierny Balog. Folk music accompanies the dance group and performs also vocal-instrumental pieces from almost all regions of Slovakia.

 

Translated by Mgr. Zuzana Danihelová

Female singing group

Currently it has 9 active singers: Zuzana Brodnianská, Michaela Orságová, Zuzana Pavelková, Dáša Jančiová, Adriana Zubercová, Simona Brezňanová, Martina Golianová, Mária Šlahorová and Bibiána Kontúrová. The essential repertoire is made of songs from the regions Podpoľanie, Horehronie and Čierny Balog, which are either in the form of purely vocal performace or with musical accompaniment. Besides these regions the group performs also material from other Slovak regions with variety of topics.

Translated by Mgr. Zuzana Danihelová

Art groups

At present the members of the ensemble are mainly the students of our university, however there are lost of students of other schools and employees of different organisations among our members. They are divided into four individual art groups:

Dance group

Folk Music

Female singing group

Male singing group