Helena Mamić

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Helena Mamić

Croatian-Australian soprano Helena Mamich pursued her undergraduate studies and a Master’s degree in Performance – Classical contemporary music at the Australian National University and School of medicine, University of Split.

Ms Mamich recently performed at Bethanien Theater, Berlin where she made her debut as Soprano Bird in opera CILS composed by Ken ShakinAs a result of collaboration with “Black Needle Noise” her debut single “Nocturnal” was released in December 2020.

As a recitalist, she focuses on Croatian composers and composers from 20th and 21st century. She premiered a number of works composed by Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stäbler, Kyle Ghann and works by many aspiring composers.

During her studies in music she has participated in masterclasses by Angelika Luz, Gerhard Staebler, Annika Rutkovsky, Sara Maria Sun, Pille Lill, David Aronson, Sylvia Greenberg, David Ciavarella, Steven Delaney, Ghillian Sullivan, Anthony Legge, Paul McMahon, Tobias Cole, Angela Gibblin, Darryl Edwards, Marvin KeenzeClaudia Visca.

Ms Mamich was the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Christel Larko Scholarship for an outstanding young musician and the Traveling Scholarship from Friends of the School of the Music. In year 2015 she is a recepient of Kornfled Postgraduate Scholarship for Opera singers and Fankhauser Travelling Scholarship.

In year 2017 she has been awarded with a prize Transition Award – Endowment of Excellence from Australian National University for her academic and performance achievements. In year 2019 she is a winner of Večernjakova Domovnica (Bad Homburg, Germany) as the most successful musician od Croatian diaspora.

She lives and works in Germany as a concert and opera singer as well as a doctor.

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Physician Singers of Zagreb

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(EN): It is a well-known fact that many physicians choose hobbies like painting, literature, photography for their leisure activities. However, far the greatest number are music lovers and practise singing or playing various instruments. Some doctors have become successful composers (e.g. Julije Bajamonti from Split, Andro Torkvat Brlic from Nova Gradiska, Nenad Grcevic, Milutin Vandekar, Nikica and Stipica Kalogjera all from Zagreb, the Ipavec brothers from Slovenia, the famous Russian composer Alexander Borodin). There had always been a serious need for an organized cultural activity within the Croatian Medical Association. Between the two world wars members of the Croatian Medical Association founded a choir and organized public performances. They sang for the first time in 1935 at a Red Cross performance conducted by a famous Croatian conductor and composer Boris Papandopulo. However, the choir lasted for a very short time. In 1937 it was reestablished under the conductor Dr. Vilko Panac, ofthalmologist and the Head of Department for Eye Diseases of the Sveti Duh Hospital in Zagreb. Unfortunately, this choir did not last long either. Neither is there sufficient information about its members from that period. All those choirs could not live long because their members and soloists were already engaged in other well-known ensembles like KoloLisinski etc. Here are just a few names: Bozidar Spisic, Aleksandar Manzoni, Josip Breitenfeld, Vilko Panac, Vera Quinz-Mihaljinec. Immediately upon World War II a choir of physicians was founded; among its members there were — still students in those days — some of the present members: Skrgatic, Tomasic, Dasovic, Krajac and Zergollern. Since that time until 1968 there were no organized cultural activities within the Croatian Medical Association.

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