Candidature Mihela Jagodic

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1 Candidature Mihela Jagodic I am motivated to participate in the next board to share my experiences of working in the choral field for almost two decades with the aim of further successful development of the ECAEC. My focus though would certainly be to prepare an unforgettable Europa Cantat festival 2021 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, my home city. More details to follow in the 3 questions document. Mihela 1/5

2 I am interested because I am professionallyvery involved in choral activities for almost two decadesand as well as the organiser of the next Europa Cantat festival 2021 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, my home city. Working in choral filed for many years as Adviser for Choral Activities at the Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities (JSKD) gave me many experiences in monitoring choral activities, developing programs and organising choral events of all levels: local, regional, national and international (International Choral Competition Gallus Maribor, member of the European GP for Choral singing). I am regular visitor of International events; competitions, EC Festivals, singing weeks and World Symposiums. I also organised three Europa Cantat events: two singing weeks in Ljubljana (2004 and 2007) and the 5th International Competition for Young Choral Conductors (2009). From I was a member of the ECAEC board. This has been an extremely important experience, giving me the insight of the Federation. Working in a board I can share my knowledge of the local/regional situation and solutions and I am also aware of international choral standards and trends. As the next organiser of the Europa Cantat Festival 2021 I will focus strongly on the event to be further developed with interesting local, regional and mostly creative ideas. Europa Cantat has well developed choral programs. I would prefer not to change general direction. I would just like to contribute ideas to broaden and enrich its existing activities. Additionally I see ECAEC intensify the efforts to raise awareness on the public about the facts, gathered by VOICE research: that choral singing is not a marginal activity but a strong movement. The numbers are gathered, the benefits of choral singing as well researched. There should be an European project that would move the numbers and facts into a cool and attractive campaign. This wouldalso help members advocacy for choral activities easier. 2/5

3 Mihela Jagodic graduated Music Education at the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. While still teaching preschool music classes and music theory at the Conservatory for Music in Ballet in Ljubljana she got very much involved in choral activities. For several years she works as head of choral activities at the Public Fund of the Republic of Slovenia for cultural activities (JSKD) public institution taking care of different fields of amateur arts. Fields of work: monitoring choral activities, developing educational programmes for choral conductors and choral events on regional, national and international level, editing Slovenian online choral magazine commissioning new compositions, cooperation with important international choral association. She is also program director of the International Choral Competition Gallus Maribor, Slovenia that became a member of the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing Association (EGP) in 2008, member of the general secretariat of the EGP Association and was twice elected Board member of European Choral Association Europa Cantat. In 2018 she successfully prepared the candidature for the Festival Europa Cantat 2021 to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia Number of workshops on teaching techniques and choral singing Academy of Music in Ljubljana Department for Pedagogics Music High School, Ljubljana Primary School Dol pri Ljubljani (full time), (part time) Employee of Music High School in Ljubljana as teacher Employee of Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities as senior advisor for Choral Activities ( Task of my employment: 3/5

4 Conducting a children s choir in Dol pri Ljubljani Singing in the Choir of Music High School Choir, Ljubljana, conductors Tomaž Faganel, Majda Hauptman Singing in the Choir of Music Academy, Ljubljana, conductor Mirko Cuderman 1993, 1994 Counselor for Music Activities in Summer Camp for Children, Redlands, CA, USA 1997 Translation of the Teaching Methods for the Recorder from English to Slovene 1997, 1998 Ethno Work camp Svetinje: Organising the summer camp on folk music with 18 musicians from enlarged Europe. They formed numerous small groups to sing, play and record folk music of different countries. Each year the CD has been released. 2002, 2005 Recording of Taizé chants (Ljubljana, Taizé France, as conductor) Singing in Akademski pevski zbor Tone Tomšič, Ljubljana, conductor Stojan Kuret 4/5

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