biography

In one sentence Cantus PoPuli could be described as a joyful and songful company of  friends and people who love singing!

The origin of the choir`s name is a witty combination  of two words, originally lat.: people`s song, but it can be interpreteded as „A song throughout Pula “, as the word PoPuli contains the name of the city of Pula.

MC “Cantus Populi” was founded by music pedagogue and conductor Tatjana Merkl, wishing to promote choral singing in the city of Pula but trough a new and fresh music way.  This group of „a capella“  singing lovers had their first rehearsal  on 28th October 2014 and already in December  2014,  Cantus PoPuli organized a few  concerts and guest performances. Such as: appearence at the Christmas concert  “Na dobro Vam došlo porođenje“ in Pula`s Italian community club Circolo. Besides that they appered in a television show „Od subote do subote“ on a local television TV Nova and made a guest performance on a local television TV Istra. They were also  invited as guest performers of cultural and artistic association OKUD-Istra.

This year Cantus Populi performed on the international choir festival  „FAKS sings“ that took place in Rovinj and on the festival of Istrian traditional songs „Naš kanat je lip“ in Poreč. They contributed with their appearence  on a charity event „Pula zajedno“ („Pula together“). Also, they made their appearance on the family day of the wards in the nursing home for adults Villa Maria in Pula.  On 21st June 2015 Cantus PoPuli celebrated the World music day among  30 performers, with a concert of 30 minute duration that took place on Pula`s Forum, in front of the beautiful ancient edifice  The temple of Augustus.

A wide and diverse, but not less demanding repertory includes sacral as well as contemporary  works, reproductions of popular and rock music, soundtracks, gospel, and of course Croatian traditional music from Istra, Dalmatia and Međimurje.