biography

People’s Art Group of Ukraine Children’s and Youth Chamber Choir “JAYVIR” (Lviv) – Laureate of international and national festivals and competitions, People’s Art Group of Ukraine.

2000 – the choir “Zhayvir” was created by Natalia Kozyar at the Center for Children and Youth Creativity of Galicia (Lviv).

The choir’s repertoire includes classical and spiritual choral works, arrangements of folk songs and authentic folklore, popular music, carols, Christmas carols, jazz compositions and choral works by contemporary composers.

Our great achievement is the diversity of the repertoire, individual vocal lessons, sound, typical of our choir and the unique atmosphere-aura of the team. Of course, children begin their studies with small songs, children’s songs, and later can sing works of classics of Ukrainian choral music M. Leontovych, K. Stetsenko, A. Vakhnyanin, and modern composers. The repertoire emphasis is on the work of Ukrainian composers, as it is one of the keys to national self-identification. We sing quality music of various genres and styles. This is how children grow, learn, learn about the world of song, cultivate musical taste, develop voice, master different manners of performance. To develop the individual vocal data of each, to unite in the choral sound, fully mastering the sound, preserving the ensemble, giving timbre to each part, this is the basic idea of ​​our team. This is a unique feature of the “Lark”.

Currently, the team includes children and young people in different age groups: 3-6 years – junior group “Zhayvoryatko”; 7-10 years-middle group “Zhaivoryata” (teacher Alexander Solovyov); 11-18 years old – senior group “Zhayvir” (Natalia Chmyr-Kozyar); 18-25 years-concert mixed choir (existed until 2010. This choir was able to sing “Carmina Burana” by K. Orff, “Habanera” from the opera by J. Bizet “Carmen”, “Virgin Mary” from “All Night” “S. Rachmaninoff,” Lacrimosa with “Requiem” by WA Mozart, along with Kupala songs, spirituals).

Children and young people thoroughly study academic vocals (individual lessons), choral art, get acquainted with musical literacy. Our goal is to educate children and youth in love for the treasure of Ukrainian culture – choral art, as one of the keys or rather codes of self-identification of the Ukrainian nation (along with language, embroidery, Easter eggs) and inexhaustible world traditions of choral singing. Extensive and diverse creative and concert geography of the band. Jaivir has visited many cities in Ukraine and 18 countries, winning international festivals and competitions in Norway, Sweden, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Macedonia, Bulgaria and more.

For 20 years, more than 300 children sang in the group, many of whom chose music (vocals, conducting) as their future profession, although this is not the main goal of raising a child in a choir. The goal is to educate a person with a wonderful harmonious quality musical taste, for whom such eternal values ​​as love, faith, traditions, song, nation, state, language will be paramount. Music is a language without borders. However, in the world we must always be the first representatives of our country, promoting Ukrainian music, and it is not inferior in quality to Western European classics, but little known in the world. In this aspect, touring is not only the emotions of communication in an informal traveling atmosphere, but also the representative mission of their country. When “Jaivir” sings works by Ukrainian composers, spiritual music by M. Verbytsky, D. Bortnyansky, M. Leontovych and I see in the eyes of listeners tears of emotional catharsis, and later stormy applause and shouts of “bravo” – these are the moments that I and each of participants will remember for a lifetime. And on tour, it happens much more often than here in Ukraine.