The PRIMAVERA Children’s Choir was founden in 1992 as a selective artistic ensemble of the Jaroslav Kvapil Primary School of Arts. Together with its preparatories BERUŠKY, DÚBRAVĚNKA, ČEREŠNIČKY and ROSIČKA it associates musically talented pupils of primary and secondary schools of Brno. The interpretation of all compositions in their original languages is a significant caracteristic of PRIMAVERA´s repertoire.
Led by its conductor and founder PhDr. Jaroslav Dostalík (1928-2010) PRIMAVERA achieved success in many international competitions and festivals in Europe and overseas. It won admiration of both specialists and public and joined significant musical entities of the Czech Republic. In August 2006 the leadership of PRIMAVERA was assumed by the conductor Natalia Zmrzlá-Chirilenco, since February 2008 PRIMAVERA is led by its art director and conductor Katarína Mašlejová-Duchoňová and since April 2011 PRIMAVERA is led and conducted by Jarmila Jalůvková, a graduate of the JAMU Brno.
The artistic rise of PRIMAVERA brougt its first success as early as in 1994, when the choir won the Golden diploma at the Bedřich Smetana International Choral Competition in Litomyšl (Czech Republic). During the following years, many listeners have been admiring PRIMAVERA in the countries of Europe. Together with their audience, the international festivals give outstanding rewards to this choir and it is invited to significant concerts and choral events. Here could be presented for example the participation in the International Children’s Choral Festival in Pardubice (Czech Republic – 1996, 2001), the artistic cooperation with the Brno National Theatre soloists and orchestra in the performance of two baroque oratorios Stabat mater (A. Scarlatti – 1997, G. B. Pergolesi – 1999), the Especial prize in Women’s Choir category from the Choral Festival in Oskarshamn (Sweden - 1998) and the representation of the city on the Brno’s Cultural Days Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands – 1998), the Golden range from the competition Iuventus mundi cantat in Olomouc (Czech Republic) and two 1st prizes in the Folk Songs and Youth Choirs categories from the Sligo International Choral Festival (Ireland – 1999), the concert at Berliner Philharmoniker Hall (Germany – 2000), participation in The World of Children’s Choirs Festival in Vancouver (Canada – 2001) and the Main prize in the Festival of the Musical Romanticism in South Bohemia (Czech Republic – 2001), the silver medal from the competition 25th International Youth Choir Festival Celje and the Audience award (Slovenia 2003).
In December 2006, led by the conductor Natalia Zmrzlá-Chirilenco PRIMAVERA won two Golden ranges in the International Festival of Advent and Christmas Music in Bratislava in the cathegories of children choirs up to 16 years and youth choirs up to 21 years.
Conducted by Katarína Mašlejová the choir gained the 1st place inthe category of the youth choirs up to 26 years on the 4th Warsaw International Choir Festival "Varsavia Cantus" (Poland 2008) and the Golden range for an exceptional performace at the competition „Youth and Bohuslav Martinů“ en Polička (CZ, April 2009). At International Choir Competition „41 Certamen Coral de Tolosa“ PRIMAVERA won the second prize (Spain 2009) and at International Festival „39 Florilège Vocal de Tours“ (France 2010) placed second in the category of youth choirs from 24 years and conductor Katarína Mašlejová won the Conductor Award.
In 2001 the choir published its first CD - Year of Czech Children, in which it presents a selection from the rich choir production for children voices of contemporaneous composers on the topic of the four seasons in the Czech national tradition.
In October 2004 PRIMAVERA published the second CD - Little Flowers of Romanticism with the 19th century music. From the abundance of minute compositions of the Romantic period there are creations of Czech, Russian, Italian, German and French composers.
In December 2005 PRIMAVERA performed in a live transmission of the Czech TV from the Advent concert in the St. Nicolas church in Prague-Lesser Town. PRIMAVERA has a great regard for the audience of the pope John Paul II and for the performance during the celebration of 85th birthday of the cardinal Tomáš Špidlík in Vatican. However, the greatest honor for PRIMAVERA was its artistic assistance in the course of a solemn service in the St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican and in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (December 2010).
Every year PRIMAVERA holds several benefit concerts to aid sick and suffering children and adults.
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