About Us
Choir Ars Vocalis from Belgrade was founded in 2014 with the desire to nurture spiritual and secular music of local and foreign composers from the Middle Ages to the present day, as well as choral works of folklore inspiration.
What makes the choir Ars Vocalis specific is a good choral atmosphere, a high level of choral sound and an inspiring interpretation.
The choir held full-length concerts in the Atrium of the National Museum in Belgrade, the European House, the SANU Gallery, the large and small hall of Kolarac, the National Library, the Ceremonial Hall and Gallery of the Vracar Municipality as well as in the Church of Christ the King, the Church of St. Anthony, the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the House of King Peter I in Senjak and the National Museum Kragujevac.
With its performance, choir Ars Vocalis has graced many academies, congresses and receptions, and is happy to participate in humanitarian events.
In addition to choral concerts, Ars Vocalis organizes and realizes thematic concerts of soloists and friends of the choir, cooperates with the Belgrade Archdiocese, cultural and artistic societies and participates in the accompanying of folklore ensembles.
Ars vocalis has many years of cooperation with the Belgrade Archdiocese and Metropolis. In addition to the Easter and Christmas Masses in Belgrade, the choir sang at the Mass in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Šćit in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the former Archbishop of Belgrade, Monsignor Stanislav Hočevar, in Škocjan, Slovenia.
The choir won awards and accolades from the professional public due to its performances:
At the 38th International Festival of Choirs in Preveza (Greece), it presents our country by performing a composition by a Serbian author.
Ars Vocalis choir won two gold medals at the 19th Choir Festival of the May Music Festival in Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina), in 2020.
At the "Melodijanum" festival, which was organized for the first time in Kikinda in December 2020, the choir Ars Vocalis won three gold medals, as well as awards for the absolute winner of the category and the award for the best conductor.
In Ruma, in 2022, at the 58th Festival of Choirs and Orchestras, the gold medal was won.
In 2023, at the 57th Days of Mokranjac in Negotin, it won the Award for the most complex program performed.
Performances at the Slobodan Bursać Choir Festival in Zrenjanin and at the opening of the Rock Festival in Obrenovac, as well as the revue part of the Melodijanum festival in Kikinda, were well received.
Since its founding, conductors Dr. Katarina Stanković and Miroslav Arbanovski, who still leads this choir today, have worked with the choir.
Miroslav Arbanovski (1980), conductor
He received a primary musical education in his hometown, Sremska Mitrovica. After completing the theoretical department of the Secondary Music School "Isidor Bajic" in Novi Sad, he graduated from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Department of Conducting, where he also completed his specialist studies.
As a member of the Academic Choir "Obilic" - AKUD "Branko Krsmanovic", from 2000 to 2004 he worked as an assistant conductor and artistic director of prof. Darinka Matić - Marovic.
At the invitation of the management of the Choir "Belgrade Madrigalists", he was hired as an assistant conductor in the period from 2004 to 2006 and collaborated with the conductors Vladimir Milić, MA and Aleksandar Spasić, MA.
From 2006 to 2012, he devoted himself to pedagogical work as a teacher in his area of expertise in a music school and as a choir and orchestra conductor, where he achieved notable results through rehearsals for concerts and competitions participation.
He is one of the founders and conductor of the choir "Ars Vocalis" since 2014, where he had successfully collaboration with conductor Dr. Katarina Stankovic.
In October 2018, he accepted the position of artistic director and conductor of the Academic Choir AKUD "Spanac" remained there until the end of 2020.
From November 2023, he has also been conducting The King Peter the First choir.
During many years of work, he had the opportunity to collaborate with well-known domestic and foreign conductors and ensembles.
He has had the opportunity to conduct many concerts in the country and abroad, of which the all-night concerts in the Atrium of the National Museum in Belgrade, the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Belgrade, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje (Bosnia and Herzegovina), SANU Gallery, Ceremonial Hall and Gallery of the City Municipality of Vračar, the European house in Belgrade stand out.
With performances with the Ars vocalis choir, he graced several ceremonial academies, congresses and receptions.
With the Belgrade Archdiocese and the Metropolis, he achieves multi-year cooperation. He conducts at religious services, and apart from masses in Belgrade, he conducted at mass in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Šćit in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the former Archbishop of Belgrade, Monsignor Stanislav Hočevar in Škocjan in Slovenia. In February 2024, he founded a male choir in the cathedral Blessed Virgin Mary, where he actively participates in the musical parts of services.
He also achieves successful cooperation with cultural and artistic societies through accompaniment of folklore ensembles by conducting the choir and the folk orchestra.
He was a guest in the programs of Radio Belgrade 1 and 2 dedicated to artistic music, and performances, concerts and awards were covered in newspapers and on various websites and portals.
With his choir, he won awards and praises from the professional public:
At the "Melodijanum" festival, which was organized for the first time in Kikinda in December 2020, the choir Ars Vocalis won three gold medals, as well as awards for the absolute winner of the category and the award for the best conductor. Next year, due to the results achieved at this festival, he gets the honor of being member of the jury.
In Ruma, in 2022, at the 58th Festival of Choirs and Orchestras, the gold medal was won.
In 2023, at the 57th Days of Mokranjac in Negotin, the choir won the Award for the most complex program performed.
Performances at the Slobodan Bursać Choir Festival in Zrenjanin and at the opening of the Rock Festival in Obrenovac, as well as the revue part of the Melodijanum festival in Kikinda, were well received.
