KOLIBRI CHOIR
Conductor Ljiljana Ranđelović
The Children’s Choir Kolibri (kolibri meaning “the hummingbird”) was founded in 1963, by Milica Manojlović who led the ensemble within the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation for four decades.
Kolibri is a unique children's choir with its own distinct style of singing, inimitable and pleasant performance, and a highly professional attitude towards music nurtured with love towards music, with an active interpretation of music which it delivers to audiences with great pleasure.
During the last fifty years, the Kolibri Choir gave over a hundred concerts at home and abroad, it took part in radio dramas, and made regular appearances in television and films.
The Choir recorded 19 single and 42 LP records, seven audiotapes, four CDs and three video tapes, all released by PGP-RTS. The Kolibri Choir's latest CD - Kolibri planeta – was released in December 2013.
Exceptional artistic achievements brought the choir a number of awards, among which there are the Diploma of Radio Belgrade for the contribution to the development of children’s and youth music, the Golden Ring of the Serbian Cultural and Educational Union, Diploma of the Serbian Composer’s Union for the contribution to the development of musical creativity, the UNICEF Acknowledgement, Golden Syrian of the Radio Television of Belgrade (RTB) for the biggest yearly achievement of RTB, the Silver Laureate Wreath for work, the Medal of Days of Mokranjac, the Days of Mokranjac Award and the Zmaj Award.
Today the conductor of the Kolibri Choir is Ljiljana Ranđelović.