
The Contemporary Conductor
Tatiana Kanišáková graduated from the Faculty of Education of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1997, where she also obtained a PhD. In 2003 she participated in master classes of choir conducting at Prof. Évy Rozsgonyi in Szeged (H), in 2006 she graduated with a degree in choir singing and conducting at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz (PL). In 2020, she completed her studies of conducting at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica.
Since 2001 he has been working at the University of Prešov in Prešov, currently he is the head of the Department of Music of the Faculty of Philosophy. She is a long-time conductor of the female choir Iuventus Paedagogica and the founder and conductor of the mixed choir Nostro Canto. With these choirs in Prešov, she won several international awards and recorded CDs of contemporary Slovak music.
As conductor of Collegium Technicum, she premiered several compositions by Slovak composers Juraj Hatrík, Ivan Hrušovský, Iris Szeghy and Norbert Bodnár.
In cooperation with the State Philharmonic Košice, she studied the oratorial works of Stabat Mater and Te Deum by Antonín Dvořák, Schubert's Mass As dur and Stabat Mater, Messa di Gloria by Pietro Mascagni, Messe solennelle de Saint Cécile by Charles Gounod, Heiligmesse by Joseph Haydn, Dominicusmesse and Requiem by W.A.Mozart, and Mass C by Ludwig van Beethoven. In 2019, Messa di Gloria e Credo G. Donizetti. In cooperation with conductor Leoš Svárovský, she prepared the premiere of the concert performance of the opera Manon Norbert Bodnár in 2018. A total of four times she prepared the choir for the performance of Carmina Buran Carlo Orff (Budapest, Spišská Nová Ves, Košice, Prague)
Under her leadership, Collegium Technicum won in the category of large mixed choirs at the National Choir Show in Banská Bystrica in 2012 and won the Slovak Music Fund Award for the best interpretation of a song by a Slovak author.
Tatiana Kanišáková is a lecturer and member of competition juries at home and abroad.. She has led courses and conducted in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, France, Austria, Norway, Ukraine, Slovenia, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria, Moldova and Macedonia (over 65 concerts, festivals and competitions).
History of conductors
Karol Petróczi
Eva Zakharova
Ján Drietomský
Marián Vach, Richard Zimmer
Roman Skřepek
Cooperation with conductors
| Slovak Republic | Peter Breiner, Margita Gergelová, Peter Hradil, Martin Leginus, Ondrej Lenárd, Maroš Potokár, Július Selčan, Bystrík Režucha, Robert Stankovský, Pavol Tužinský, Rastislav Štúr |
| Czech Republic | Jiří Bělohlávek, Jakub Hrůša, Mário Klemens, Tomáš Koutník, Stanislav Macura, Lubomír Mátl, Zbyněk Müller, Miriam Němcová, Vlastislav Novák, Libor Pešek, Jiří Pinkas, Lumír Pivovarský, Jan Řezníček, Leoš Svárovský, Stanislav Vavřínek, Jakub Zícha, Jakub Klecker |
| England | Peter Philips |
| Belgium | Alfred Walter |
| Yugoslavia | Josip Veršič |
| Latvia | Ilze Cylinders |
| Hungary | Gábor Hollerung, Gergely Ménesy |
| Poland | Zbigniew Ciurava |
| Portugal | José Robert, Francisco d'Orey, Pedro Teixeira |
| Austria | Johannes Wildner, Martin Braun, Georg Kugi |
| Russia | Irina Bogdanovich, Vladimir Leonidovich Živov |
| Spain | Samuel Rubio Alvarez, Alfonzo Lopez Raymond, Montserrat Meneses |
| Switzerland | Martin Studer |
| Italy | Giuseppe Cristaudo |
| Thailand | Somton Sucharitkul |
| USA | Jeff Edmons and Matthew Faerber |