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ORIANA youth female choir
Youth female choir ORIANA is amateur choir, which exists since 2008. Choir activity realizes with support of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre (Ukraine, Odessa). Folklore program, classical choral works, sacred music, contemporary music are in the choir repertoire. The choir mission is revival and maintenance of the rich Ukrainian traditions of choral singing.

8 countries, 15 cities visited 15 international competitions participated, 12 first prizes more than 100 performances more than 5.000 people have opened Ukrainian song all over the world

Awards
2013. 31 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE MÚSICA DE CANTONIGRÒS (Spain): 1st prize in category FOLKLOR, 2nd prize in category Female choirs. 2013. 2nd International Florence Choir Festival (Italy): 1st prize in category SACRED MUSIC, 2nd prize in category Female choirs,2nd prize in category Folklor. 2013. Ukrainian festival “From Christmas to Christmas” (Ukraine): 1 st prize in category “Amateur choirs”.

2012. International Competition "South Palmira" (Ukraine): 1st prize in category Equal voices. 2012. 25 Bela Bartok International Choir Competition: 3rd prize in category Equal voices. 2012. 22 International Festival of Academic choirs IFAS (Czech Republic): 1 st prizes in categories “Sacred music”, “National folklore”, “Women choirs”.

2011. II Krakow Advent & Christmas Choir Festival (Poland): 1st prize. 2011. International Competition "South Palmira" (Ukraine): Grand Prix. 2011. 50 International Competition “Seghizzi” (Italy): Special prize “Best Equal Voices Choir”, 3 rd prize in category “Polyphonic compositions of the 19th century”, 5 th prize in category “Folk music”. 2011. XXX International Festival of Orthodox Church Music“Hajnowka 2011” (Poland): 1 st prize in category “Amateur choirs”.

2010. International Competition "South Palmira" (Ukraine): 1st prize. 2010. International Festival "Ohrid choir Festival" (Macedonia): 1st prize. 2010. VII Ukrainian festival "Dnepr Easter hymns" (Ukraine): 1st prize.

2009. International Competition "South Palmira" (Ukraine): 1st prize. 2008. International Competition "Constellation of the see" (Ukraine): 1st prize.

Performances
January 8, 2014 ORIANA choir participated in Festival “Christmas stories” at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater with big choir, soloists and orchestra of Opera Theater. In 2013 the choir participated in the International Festival "Two days and two nights of new music 2013" (Odessa), and "Easter meeting 2013" (Odessa).

On summer 2013 "Oriana" choir took part in opera “Alcido” (Dmitry Bortniansky) within the Opera Festival hold at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. The same year the choir was also invited to Ruda (Italy) for a series of concerts as part of the Festival 13 Cori d'Europa. Concerts were held in Udine and Pordenone cities together with male choir Gruppo Polifonico "Claudio Monteverdi" (Italy). "Oriana" became the first choir from Ukraine and CIS countries took part in the Festival and presented Ukrainian culture for 13 years of its existence!

In September 2013 in Odessa for the first time in the history of the town joint concert of ORIANA female choir and male choir from Poland «Pochodnia» (Częstochowa) was held. This event became a significant contribution to the choral and cultural exchange between our countries.

Sacred music
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn2KQOdPMbA Irina Aleksiychuk "Slava Otstsu i Synu" II part. Orthodox] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYis-bvC6M Berezovskyi. Ne otverzhi mene. Orthodox] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIRbKC5Vx4 Verdi. Laudi alla vergine Maria] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bc_KKAiSOg Ganna Gavrylets. Bozhe miy nascho ty mene pokynuv. Orthodox] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGDnvXkrUM D.Bortnianskiy. Gospodi, siloyu tvoyeyu. Orthodox] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzgg3E8VuMI G.Palestrina. Ave Regina Coelorum]

Folk music
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWKOWZo6fgw Irina Aleksiychuk. Gra pro pannu. Ukrainian folk] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eug5NbhLpvc Ganna Gavrylets. Oi temna nichka kupailochka, Ukrainian folk] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wKRtlePkwQ Ne shodylo vrantsi sonechko. Ukrainian folk]

Contemporary music
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRG9gOGKzQg Natalia Cherniy. Jedzie Pociąg... (The Train Goes...)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVJHYivj-Xg Kakonyi Arpad. Psalm 151] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2Bm2dCA9A Julia Gomelskaya. Winter Pastoral]

CHOIR CONDUCTOR
The choir conductor is Galina Shpak, PhD in Art History, graduated from Odessa National musician Conservatory named by A. Nezhdanova. She is laureate of international competitions, assistant professor of choral conducting in the Odessa Music Academy, conductor of its student choir.

Awards
In 2006, Galina Shpak won two 1st prizes on 35th International Choral Competition "Florilege vocal de Tour" (Tour, France) with this choir. In 2008 Galyna Shpak, as a conductor of male choir, participated in the premiere of Shostakovich's 13 symphony with the Symphony Orchestra of the Odessa Philharmonic Theater. In 2009 together with mini-Opera “Nova Odeska Opera” toured as choirmaster of new staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. That year she also took part in opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre.

More
She leads different church choirs more than 25 years. At the present time Galina Shpak is also the conductor of male choir at Odessa St. Panteleimon abbey.

Contemporary authors pieces ORIANA choir performs
Julia Gomelskaya (UA) Natalia Cherniy (PL) Kakonyi Arpad (HU) Hanna Havrylets' (UA) Karmella Tsepkolenko (UA) Lesia Dychko (UA) Miroslav Raichl (CZ) Volodymyr Runchak (UA)