Christmas Bells 2023-24
Jury
Olga Tsipina.
Born on 05/19/1961 in Moscow, Russia.
Field of activity - easel and monumental painting, mosaics, frescoes, stained-glass windows, icons.
Studied 1968-1978 - high school.
1975-1978 - painting and drawing at an art school.
In 1978 she entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, the department of graphics and design.
In 1980 she began to work in the genres of easel and monumental painting.
Since 1995 she worked in the icon-painting workshop of St. Alipia, participated in the monumental painting of temples.
In 2007 studied and worked in A. Kornaukhov's mosaic workshop.
She also made stained glass windows. She took part in exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Since 2009 I have been living in IsraelHer works are in private collections and public buildings in Europe, Russia and Israel and other countries.
Member of the Russian Union of Artists since 2000 (icon painting) and a member of the Union of Russian Artists in Paris (painting) since 2005.
Veronika Khvalevsky Grace - mezzo-soprano opera singer, laureate of international competitions,
conductor, teacher with 25 years of experience, member of the jury of many vocal competitions
and head of the "Harmony" Vocal School - the leading creative group in the city of Jerusalem.
She is organaizer and director of Holy Land Company(International Festivals and Contests of Art and Creativity)
Veronika has participated in many festivals, including the festival dedicated to the visit of Pope John Paul II to Astana,
Kazakhstan. 2001 and the 2003 Young Talents Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
She was seen on the opera stage in such roles as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
Giovanna in Verdi's Rigoletto, Larina in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,
Kate in Madame Butterfly by Puccini; and Carmen in Bizet's masterpiece.
Since arriving in Israel in 2005, Ms Grace has performed both locally and abroad.
She has recently appeared in the Tel Aviv opera Sadna and the opera Aeterna in Jerusalem.
She was mentored by famous vocal teachers in Germany and the USA, namely:
John Norris from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Joan Donermann,
Mignon Dunn, Olga Makarina,Emma Sarkisian.
In 2008 she performed with Ranaana Orchestra,
and presented programm of Russian romances of russian famous composers.
In 2009 she gave concerts in Italy, in the theaters "Pergolesi" and "Gentile",
participated in the "Master class at the Teatro Rossini" in Pesaro,
Master class with Placido Domingo in Verona, participated in the festival of sacred music in Rome,
participated at the Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy 2012 at the opera Serenade in the Wind by Finzi as Countess,
and in numerous other vocal competitions and festivals, where she was awarded high prizes and awards.
In 2019 she was invited to the International Opera Project where she performed
at the Bolshoi Theater, on the Pokrovsky stage, in Puccini's opera Suor Angelica as Badesa, Moscow.
In 2021 performed in Concert of winners of "Classical Music Awards Contest" in Carnegie Hall in New York USA.
ADAM DENEKA (Poland).
He keeps founding and managing
Early Music Ensembles for Children for over 30 years.
He ran known in Poland and Europe Early Music Ensemble "Ars Antiqua",
which operated in the small village of Bierzwnik, making his small region famous in Poland and throughout Europe.
He toured in Germany, Belgium, France, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania, gaining a lot of awards at music festivals.
He also promotes early music - especially Polish,
conducting methodological classes with young teachers and organizing art groups in Poland and Germany.
He is also a coach leading vocal and instrumental workshops in Poland and abroad.
Adam Deneka is a very active teacher. For 28 years he has been organizing
Nationwide Early Music Workshops and for 5 years Nationwide Vocal Workshops in Kamień Pomorski.
He is the Artistic Director of these meetings and the Early Music Festival in Pelplin,
during which presents the best Polish children's early music ensembles.
He performed with his groups widely, incl. in the European Parliament
in Brussels (these were the Early Music Ensemble "Integri" and the Early Song Ensemble "Canto Choralis" from Drezdenko).
He collaborates with a Bulgarian choir from London. During concerts in England and Bulgaria,
the band "Canto Choralis" will promote Polish music.
For the artistic and pedagogical activities, he received many awards,
including Medal of the National Education Commission (1998) awarded by the Minister of the National Education,
Medal of the Distinguished Cultural Activist awarded by Minister of Culture (1997) and the Medal for Merit to Polish Culture (2019).
He is invited to conduct classes with groups of children and teenagers
In Poland and Germany and cooperates with interested schools
and organizations working for the artistic development of children i young people.
The latest projects organized by Adam Deneka are the International Polonia and National children's festival of youth song
"Song is Good for Everything" (Piosenka Dobra na Wszystko),
"With a song on your lips" (Z piosenką na ustach).
In September, the Polonia Festival of Christmas Carols and Pastorales
will be announced - "Polish Christmas Carol walks around the world".
Aliza Keren
Violinist, composer, teacher, producer
Creative biography
Israel
2017-2022
Creation of ensembles "Keren Aliza Project",
"Shirel Sisters", "Keren Aliza Violins".
Concert activities.
2000 - 2022
Private teaching - violin, solfeggio,
improvisation, synthesizer,
early musical development, singing
2011 - 2022
Working with recording studios - session musician,
violin part arrangement
2011-2018
Participation in international Internet conferences
"Modern methods and technologies
of professional music education"
2001-2011Creation of the author's method
of early musical development "Gnomes"
2010 Artistic Director of the Jerusalem
Magic Violins Violin Ensemble
2009 Soloist of the "Impressive Flight Orchestra"
2005-2008Soloist of the ensemble "Tsivonim"
and the projects-performances "Besame Mucho"
and "Spray of Champagne"
2003 - 2006Work at the music school "Muzikon" - violin,
early musical development2005Leadership of the youth
jazz ensemble of violinists (laureate of the festivals
"Children play jazz" and "Holiday of Peace and Friendship"
2003-2005 Performances on Israeli TV and Radio
2000-2002 Leadership of the children's vocal ensemble
"Vimbi"St. Petersburg
1990 -1991Orchestra Classics
1989-1991Children's Music School 15 - violin teacher
1998-1990Chamber Orchestra of the SP University,
concertmaster of the orchestra
EducationSt. Petersburg Conservatory Master degree
Baykenova-Chukanbaeva Gulsina Garifzhanovna
Frunze Choreographic School
Specialty - "Ballet dancer"
South Kazakhstan Humanitarian University named afterAuezova
Specialty - cultural and leisure work and the organization of artistic creativity
Qualification - Manager-leader of the dance group"
State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater. K. Moldybaya.
Chelyabinsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater Glinka State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
Abay State Classical Dance Ensemble led by People's Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bulat Ayukhanov. Student SKSU them. M.Auezova Atyrau regional youth ensemble "Atyrau"Position - choreographer-director.
She opened the first ballet studio in Atyrau, where she is the director.
Regional Philharmonic named after N. Zhantorin (Atyrau)Position - chief choreographer of the choreographic ensemble.Regional Drama Theater.
MakhambetPosition - chief choreographer Small Academy of Arts named after N. Tlendieva for gifted children.Position - teacher-choreographer of classical dance.
Laureate of international festivals and competitions of choreographic art (Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, Germany, China, Russia, UAE)2004-2020 - is the head of the ethnocultural
association of Tatars and Bashkirs "Tatulyk" of the Atyrau region. Member of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan.
She was awarded the medal "Guest of Honor of Russia" (Moscow), the Gold Medal of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan "Birlik" - "Unity", as well as the State Medal of the Republic of Kazakhstan "20 Years of Independence", the Jubilee Medal of the Regional Philharmonic Society. N. Zhantorina, jubilee medal "25 years of maslikhats of the Republic of Kazakhstan".
In 2012 she was awarded a medal and an honorary badge of the international encyclopedia "The Best People" (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan).
In 2013 she was awarded the Patron of the Year medal.
She was marked with letters of thanks and letters of gratitude from the akim of the Atyrau region, the city, the political party "Nur Otan", the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan, as well as a letter of thanks from the World Congress of Tatars (Kazan).
Conducts charity concerts, performances for orphans, nursing homes and homes for the disabled.He is the chief director-choreographer of city,
regional, republican mass events in the Atyrau region.
He actively cooperates with people with disabilities.
He is the first founder of a dance theater for people with disabilities in Atyrau.
Inna Novisova is a singer and vocal teacher.
She has participated in numerous music, television and radio projects.
She lived in Los Angeles, California, where she participated in projects with Valery Gaina and Sergey Sarychev.
She taught vocals at the K. Stars production center.
solo disc, in the recording studio “Bardo”.
At the moment she is the soloist of the group “New Land”, which took part and represented Israel, at the International Festival “Retro Jazz” in St. Petersburg, Russia. And also at the festival “Sea Jazz ”In the city of Ashdod, Israel.
Alexander Mikhailov is a director, theater teacher, professor,
Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the Fiddler on the Roof Prize
in the Theater nomination of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in 2014.
He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Peoples'
Friendship University in Moscow, then the directing faculty of the Kharkiv
State Institute of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky, passed a director's
internship at the Moscow Academic Theater named after V. Mayakovsky
with the People's Artist of the USSR A.A. Goncharov.
For three decades he worked as the artistic director of the
Oryol State Theater for Children and Youth "Free Space" in Orel,
Russia; as well as the head of acting courses at the Oryol State Institute
of Culture and Art.Stage director of performances in theaters in Russia, Ukraine, USA.
Participant, laureate of international theater festivals in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Spain,
Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Cyprus,
Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia.
In 2017 he immigrated to Israel.
He staged performances in the theater studios of Israel "Nisan Nativ"
and "Beit Zvi", in the Russian-language theaters "Three lines",
Jerusalem, "Tarantas", Jerusalem, "Ladder" Ashdod, "Another Opera" Jerusalem.
Currently he runs the Free Theater Workshop in Jerusalem.
Olga Tsipina.
Born on 05/19/1961 in Moscow, Russia.
Field of activity - easel and monumental painting, mosaics, frescoes, stained-glass windows, icons.
Studied 1968-1978 - high school.
1975-1978 - painting and drawing at an art school.
In 1978 she entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, the department of graphics and design.
In 1980 she began to work in the genres of easel and monumental painting.
Since 1995 she worked in the icon-painting workshop of St. Alipia, participated in the monumental painting of temples.
In 2007 studied and worked in A. Kornaukhov's mosaic workshop.
She also made stained glass windows. She took part in exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Since 2009 I have been living in IsraelHer works are in private collections and public buildings in Europe, Russia and Israel and other countries.
Member of the Russian Union of Artists since 2000 (icon painting) and a member of the Union of Russian Artists in Paris (painting) since 2005.
Veronika Khvalevsky Grace - mezzo-soprano opera singer, laureate of international competitions,
conductor, teacher with 25 years of experience, member of the jury of many vocal competitions
and head of the "Harmony" Vocal School - the leading creative group in the city of Jerusalem.
She is organaizer and director of Holy Land Company(International Festivals and Contests of Art and Creativity)
Veronika has participated in many festivals, including the festival dedicated to the visit of Pope John Paul II to Astana,
Kazakhstan. 2001 and the 2003 Young Talents Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
She was seen on the opera stage in such roles as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
Giovanna in Verdi's Rigoletto, Larina in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,
Kate in Madame Butterfly by Puccini; and Carmen in Bizet's masterpiece.
Since arriving in Israel in 2005, Ms Grace has performed both locally and abroad.
She has recently appeared in the Tel Aviv opera Sadna and the opera Aeterna in Jerusalem.
She was mentored by famous vocal teachers in Germany and the USA, namely:
John Norris from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Joan Donermann,
Mignon Dunn, Olga Makarina,Emma Sarkisian.
In 2008 she performed with Ranaana Orchestra,
and presented programm of Russian romances of russian famous composers.
In 2009 she gave concerts in Italy, in the theaters "Pergolesi" and "Gentile",
participated in the "Master class at the Teatro Rossini" in Pesaro,
Master class with Placido Domingo in Verona, participated in the festival of sacred music in Rome,
participated at the Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy 2012 at the opera Serenade in the Wind by Finzi as Countess,
and in numerous other vocal competitions and festivals, where she was awarded high prizes and awards.
In 2019 she was invited to the International Opera Project where she performed
at the Bolshoi Theater, on the Pokrovsky stage, in Puccini's opera Suor Angelica as Badesa, Moscow.
In 2021 performed in Concert of winners of "Classical Music Awards Contest" in Carnegie Hall in New York USA.
From 1987 to 1990 he studied at the choreographic school. Kostroma.
From 1990 to 1994, the Empire of Dance School of Contemporary Ballet. A.V. Kolmakova.
From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a dancer-vocalist
in the professional dance company "Dance Empire International" (Ukraine, Austria).
Since 2000 he has been a director-choreographer of ten of his own creative projects.
Since 2013 Member of the International Jury. Teacher of contemporary techniques, jazz,
classical dance, folk dance.International Festival of Creativity "KALEIDOSCOPE OF TALENTS".
Zywiec, Shchytno, Polyanytsya Zdroj. (Poland)
2013-2018 Conducting master + classes and staging dance compositions,
work in the panel of judges in Lithuania May 2018,Dance Theater "Allegro", Collective "Style",
Children's Theater "Golden Key, School" Dancer "holding master classes.
in Dnepropetrovsk,2016 "Aquapark", Tiantzin, Choreographer-director.
"Aquapark", Guyan, (China). Choreographer-director.2015 »“ Odysseo ”Music-Hall
choreographer“ jazz-tap-duo ”(step, juggle) Dijon. France,
2013-2014 “Le Paradis des Sources” Music-Hall,
choreographer “jazz-tap-duo” (step, juggle) Soultzmatt. France,
2012-2013. Dance Impier Internetional, choreographer (Austria-Turkey).2012
Fashion project (show), vocalist in the Cuban band. Delhi, India .
2011 College of Culture, teacher of modern jazz technology.,
Dnepropetrovsk, 2007-2008. Television project "Beautifull Lady 2006",
choreographer, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 2006.
"Magic Mountain" Kathmandu, Nepal. Choreographer-programs,
2005 “Paradise Resort Mamura” Alexandria, Egypt.
Choreographer-programs,2004 Events & Entertainment,
Pvt. Ltd. 4-4 Influence House, Zamrudpur Community Center Kailash Colony Extn. Delhi, India.
Choreographer of the program, dancer, vocalist.2001-2003 Millennium 2000 ”Dalian, China.
Choreographer-programs ,
2001 Dance Impire Internetional Artur Kolmakova company dancer, 1995-2001.
"Mini-Mis Universe" its Contestant, won and won the Grand Prix (Tatiana Shapoval). ,
(South Africa) 2002 Championship of Ukraine UFST (in the world IDO system),
his dance group took second place in the modern nomination.
2010 Championship of Ukraine (in the world IDO system) - step. (Solo). First place, Ternopil, Ukraine. 2010
Participation in the World Championship, Riesa, Germany 2010. International festival with my production "Sailors"
Contemporary dance collective "Style-S" won the Grand Prix, Paris, France 2015.
Dorota Kret Poland-over 30 years of music teacher,vocal coach,jury of many competitions.
Founder of Studio "Piosenki Septyma",initiator and organaizer for 19 years of the
National English Song Contest,Malopolska Competition of Christmas Carols,
Pastorales,Malopolska Festival of Patriotic Greativity.
Her students are laureats of many international and national music festivals.
Decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit in the fieid of culture.
Giliomee Jacobs was born in South Africa on the 2nd of June 1976.
He started with Vocal Training at the age of 4 and did my first Corporate
function together with a few other older artists that same year.
Since then he have taken part in various talent competitions and
performed at various shows and functions.
At the age of 13 he helped my mother to organise shows at old age
homes where he usually sang and played the piano and keyboard.
The shows grew bigger and I had to start helping the other younger
performers to get their vocals and choreography in top shape for the shows.
He shared all the knowledge I picked up over the years with them
to make sure that they can give their best.
During all this time I was still getting
vocal coaching myself up to the age of 17.
In his final school year He decided to open my own business
called "The Gemini Music Academy".
He 've been a vocal trainer since.
"The Gemini Music Academy" turned 28 years in 2022.
He've worked with a lot of local South African artists
over the past years and also had lots of my students receive
Medals and Trophies in Talent Competitions.
Maurizio Spista
Educator – Drummer- Arranger- Composer, Music Teacher, Music Master’s degree /
Drum & percussion Specialist at NY Music School / Bronx College Academy
– New York Jazz Academy and MS Media Music Group of NY C.E.0.
Musician, Multi-instrumentalist, Professional Drummer, Educator, Arranger, Composer of
appreciated versatility and experience. Over the years, in his long professional career, he
played and collaborated in tour and studio recording with many producers, Music Label
(Universal, Virgin, Warner Music, CGD, Sony, Free Sound, LAEL,) musicians and reference
Artists including DEE Dee Jackson, Gloria Gaynor, Dionne Warwick, Skin of Skunk Anansie
Sidney O’Connor, Demis Russous, Cheryl Porter, Karl Potter, Deanna Kirk, Daralyn Jay, Tanya
Houston, J.Gray, Amanda Johnson , Belen Thomas, Righeira, I. Spagna, A.Oxa, Fausto Le Ali
,Jenny B. Little Tony, Rocky Roberts,Mia Martini, L. Berte’, Toto Cotugno, Ricchi e Poveri,
Antonella Ruggiero of Matia Bazar and many more
His style is recognized and appreciated by many Artists and Professional Musicians
He is in continuing research of deepening, experimenting, and practicing various genres o
of music, from Rock, Pop, funk, Soul, and Blues Jazz, to free/ avant-garde - Jazz, Jazz fusion,
afro, world music ...and more.
Krystyna Cugowska - Musician, vocalist, certified NVP vocal coach,
master of art, music therapist, cultural animator, and art therapist.
A graduate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław,
majoring in composition, music theory, and music therapy.
Member of the International Association of Vocal Educators
"Natural Voice Perfection".
The owner and founder of the dynamic
Bluelife-Art Vocal and Voice Rehabilitation Studio in Lublin,
educates children, teenagers, and adults.
She works with singers, actors, teachers, amateurs,
and singing enthusiasts. She deals with the rehabilitation of singing and speaking voices.
She conducts vocal workshops on voice emission and hygiene.
Between concerts, rehearsals, vocal classes, and recordings,
she is constantly developing and expanding her knowledge about the human voice.
The only multi-certified vocal trainer in the eastern part of Poland,
who works and promotes the Lax Vox technique,
with particular attention to the DoctorVox Voice Therapy Method (DVT).
She has experience in solo, group, choral, and studio work, and takes part in live shows and recording projects.
She's also a founder of the newly established Lublin Popular Music Choir at the Cultural Center in Lublin.
Versatile vocalist with a head full of ideas, she also supports charity
campaigns and instills in young talented people the ability to help others.