Lecturers
Bob Chilcott (United Kingdom)
Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, as a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and as a member of the King’s Singers. He became a full-time composer and conductor in 1997, and has composed a large catalogue of choral music which is published by Oxford University Press. His most often performed pieces include Can you hear me?, A Little Jazz Mass, Requiem, and the St John Passion. Bob has directed choirs in more than 30 countries worldwide and conducts many thousands of amateur singers in a continuing series of Singing Days. Since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers and since 2019 Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by leading British choirs and groups including The King’s Singers, King’s College, Cambridge, Wells Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, Commotio, and Ora. Circlesong, recorded by the Houston chamber Choir and Treble Choir of Houston, was released by Signum in January 2022, and his second disc with NFM Wroclaw, Canticles of Light, in January 2023.
Tadeja Vulc (Slovenia)
Tadeja Vulc (1978) began to form her musical style with U. Rojko, perfected it with M. Jarell in Vienna, and finally developed it herself with the help of many years of creating music for various vocal and instrumental ensembles, with which she collaborated either as a composer or a conductor. Her work is a constant intertwinement of conducting and composing. She has won various prizes for compositions as well as awards in the field of conducting: the 2nd prize in the competition of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the 1st prize in the international tender of the Tone Tomšič Academic Choir (2009), the Special prize for excellent conducting performance in Debrecen, Hungary (2016), and in Varna, Bulgaria (2018); the best composition of the national competition of children's and youth choirs Zagorje (2018). In recent years, she has been one of the most frequently performed composers in Slovenia in the field of music for children and youth choirs. Her choral works have appeared on concert stages in the USA, Asia, Africa and at the most prestigious choral competitions in Europe. Tadeja Vulc is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Maribor and the artistic director and conductor of the Maribor Academic Choir.