The University of Life Sciences Choir

The University of Life Sciences Choir is one of the oldest in Lublin. Its beginnings go back to the spring of 1952, when a group of several students of the Agricultural Faculty of UMCS formed a vocal-instrumental band, which in autumn of that year was transformed into a choir. The conductor of the choir was its main initiator, a research worker of the Agri-cultural Faculty of UMCS, Bogusław Szot, now a professor of the Institute of Agro-physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin, a real lover of choir music. He was the conductor for 15 years. Since 1990, Zofia Bernatowicz has been the conductor, and Professor Jan Matras its curator. The work of recent years brought the effect of numerous concerts, including the vocal-instrumental ones (Borys Godunow by Modest Musorgsky, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff at the Lublin Philharmonic Hall). The Choir takes part in university celebrations (for example, the performance of Nelson Mass by Joseph Haydn to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the AUniversity of Life Sciences) and in concerts in the city. The Choir gives annual concerts abroad (Belgium, France, Germany; in 1996 it took part in the festival in Hungary, where it was a co-performer of Magnificant by John Sebastian Bach); it took part in the 2nd International Choir Meetings in Lublin with the performance of Completorium by Grzegorz Gorczyński , and in a prestigious concert at the Musical Academy of Warsaw. Source: www.ar.lublin.pl