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Cantica Collegium musicum Martin

Cantica Collegium musicum Martin is a mixed chamber choir. It was founded in February 1991. In 1994, Štefan Sedlický took over the artistic direction and conducting. The choir successfully represents the city of Martin and Slovakia at home and abroad.

In 1997-1998, it undertook a series of concerts in Germany and Austria. In April 2002, it performed in Hoogeveen (Netherlands) before Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In October 2005, it again performed a series of extremely successful concerts in the Netherlands during a tour. In 2007, in addition to numerous performances on domestic soil, it was primarily an invitation to Rome and the Vatican, where the choir performed in St. Peter’s Basilica and at an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

Štefan Sedlický (*1963)

He studied piano at the Conservatory in Žilina and at the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava (1985–1990 with Prof. M. Starost), where in 1989 he also began studying choral conducting, which he graduated in the class of Prof. Hradil in 1994. He works as an associate professor of conducting at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica and partly at the Department of Musical Culture of the Faculty of Education of Matej Bel University. In addition to Cantic, he is the conductor of several choirs (Žilina Mixed Choir and the Slovak Teachers’ Choir), with which he achieved significant successes at international competitions at home and abroad.