Permoník Choir Karviná operates at the Bedřich Smetana Elementary School of Art in Karviná and the Juventus Leisure Centre. It consists of 7 choirs – 230 male and female singers aged approximately 5 to 65. The choir was founded in 1966, its founders are Eva and Ivan Šeiner.
The imaginary peak of Permoník Choir Karviná is the Permoník Concert Choir. At concerts, festivals and competitions at home and abroad, it promotes mainly excellent Czech contemporary work.
Nevertheless, it does not focus on a narrowly defined musical genre or stylistic period. The choir’s dramaturgy is influenced by leading Czech and foreign composers, who often entrust it with their compositions for premiere performances. On the Czech stage, the choir closely cooperates or has collaborated with Milan Báchorek, Ilja Hurník, Jan Jirásek, Ivana Loudová, Otmar Mácha, Irena Szurmanová and Jan Vičar. Among the foreign authors are Igor Vitalievich Katayev (Russia), Ofer Ben-Amots (USA), Dr. Alec Schumacker from Hawaii Pacific University and composer Naoto Aizawa (Japan). In addition to vocal compositions, the choir also performs music-dramatic works, such as children’s operas or musicals.
Permoník is often a guest of chamber and symphony orchestras. For example, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the FOK Orchestra, the Janáček Chamber Orchestra, the Czech Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Operetta/Musical Ensemble of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and others.
In collaboration with these orchestras, he performs symphonies, masses, oratorios and cantatas – e.g. Liszt’s Dante Symphony, Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria in D, Honegger’s Christmas Cantata and Joan of Arc, Hurník’s Missa Vinea Crucis, Britten’s St. Nicholas Cantata, Kim André Arnesen’s Magnificat, Rutter’s Magnificat, Jenkinsn’s Adiemus, Báchork’s Hukvaldská poema, Ryb’s Czech Christmas Mass and others. Permoník has collaborated with many conductors, e.g. Otakar Trhlík, Martin Turnovský, Oldřich Bohuňovský, Lubomít Mátel, Serge Baudo, Jiří Bělohlávek, Petr Šumník, Stanislav Vavřínek, Marek Prášil, Jakub Žídek, Chuhej Iwasaki and others.
The choir also collaborates with artists from the field of non-artificial music. Permoník works closely with tenor saxophonist Michal Žáček, participated in the recording of the CD Klusymfonie and the CD Cítím with Tomáš Klus, sang vocal parts on Vladimír Hron’s Christmas CD, and collaborated with the Mirai group, Petr Bend, Ewa Farna, David Stypka, Vladivojná la Chia, Tomáš Koček, Jaromír Nohavica, Štěpán Kozub, Jiří Krhut and others.
In addition to concerts for the general public, it also prepares educational concerts, similar to the younger department of the choir studio. In this way, it tries to contribute to the diversification of music education in elementary schools in an entertaining way. Each season, the Permoník Concert Choir performs at approximately 50 concerts.
Bravura performances have taken Permoník to the most important world stages. He sang in 16 countries, in famous concert halls in Europe, Asia, America and Australia; for example, in the Kapela Hall in St. Petersburg, in the National Opera in Warsaw, in concert halls in Shizuoka, Fuji and Tokyo, twice in New York’s Carnegie Hall or in the Sydney Opera House. He also did not miss Czech stages of international importance, such as the Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfinum or the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague.
He has recorded a significant part of his repertoire on 18 CDs, most often in collaboration with Czech Radio Ostrava.
In 2018, Permoník was honored with the Jantar Award – an award for contribution to the culture of the Moravian-Silesian Region – in the category Musical Ensemble of the Year and at the same time became the resident choir of the Jantar Awards. The choir also received the “Choir of the Year 2019” award from the Union of Czech Choirs.
The artistic director is Mrs. Eva Šeinerová, the choirmasters of the Permoník Concert Choir are MgA. Martina Juríková and Mgr. Karina Grimová, accompanied on the piano by Jakub Šotkovský. The president of Permoník is Ing. Petr Kazík, Ph.D.
At concerts in Europe from Sweden to Greece, from England to Russia, in Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and the USA, Permoník strives to fulfill its motto – singing is joy.
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