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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dada Ru\u017ea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dada Ru\u017ea was born in Vara\u017edin. She received her secondary education from Vara\u017edin First Grammar School, while also attending the Vara\u017edin School of Music. She continued her studies at Zagreb Music Academy where she studied conducting under Professor Igor Gjadrov. She graduated from Hermann Zilcher Conservatory (harpsichord).
\nShe started working at the Vara\u017edin School of Music in 1985. She has attended seminars given by renowned music educators (both local and international) to further strengthen her knowledge in the fields of her interests, especially choir leadership, conducting and historical performing practice.
\nIn her career as a teacher at the Vara\u017edin School of Music she has taught over ten different subjects in the field of music. She established the very first elective harpsichord classes. She has also performed as a harpsichordist with the Vara\u017edin Baroque Ensemble in Croatia and abroad. She currently teaches playing scores, conducting and harpsichord, leads the female, male and mixed choirs, conducts and leads the School string orchestra and the vocal octet. She currently serves as Head of the Music Theory Department. In her work music education, artistic performance and scientific research are intertwined.
\nAs the choir conductor of the Vara\u017edin School of Music, she has achieved great results both at national and international competitions. The female School choir under her leadership performed at the following events:
\n\u2022 Croatian Competition of Students of Music and Dance, where she won two second place awards and three first place awards
\n\u2022 Croatian Youth Music Festival (Glazbene sve\u010danosti hrvatske mlade\u017ei), where she won three Golden Plaques and twice the Interim Cup awarded by the Croatian Composers\u2019 Society for the best performance of a piece written by a Croatian composer.
\n\u2022 Azzano Decimo International Choir Competition in Italy, where she won first place and a special award given only to the best conductors.
\n\u2022 Celje International Youth Singing Festival, where she won the Golden Plaque and the special award for the best performance of a piece written by a master composer of the period.<\/p>\n

Under her leadership the mixed choir of the Vara\u017edin School of Music gave a performance at the 2014 Zagreb Choir Competition and won silver plaques in two different categories. For her performance of the oratorio \u201cPrijenos sv. Dujma\u201c at the 1999 Vara\u017edin Baroque Evenings, led by Pavle De\u0161palj, the choir received the \u201cIvan Luka\u010di\u0107\u201c Festival Award.<\/p>\n

With the School choir, she has participated in many successful competitions throughout Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. Her most important international engagement remains her work with the Ravensburg School of Music and the performance at the respectable London Handel Festival. In the Vara\u017edin School of Music she established the vocal octet, which performed at the National Competition of Students of Music and Dance and won second place and successfully preformed in Croatia, Germany and the UK.<\/p>\n

From 2007 to 2013 she also led several non-school affiliated choirs, such as the Mixed Choir of the Trades and Crafts Society which, under her leadership, won several awards at the Festival of Vara\u017edin County Choirs (Smotra zborova Vara\u017edinske \u017eupanije) and successfully performed at the Gathering of Croatian Choirs, as well as at concerts all over Croatia and Hungary.<\/p>\n

One of the non-school affiliated choirs led by her was the Vara\u017edin Croatian National Theatre Chamber Choir, which gave a memorable performance in the show \u201cMislibolesnik iliti hipokondrijaku\u0161\u201c. The choir performed music written by M. A. Charpentier under the production of Sa\u0161a Britvi\u0107 in 2015.<\/p>\n

Dada Ru\u017ea collaborates with many Croatian and foreign associations and establishments in the field of music, music education and scientific research. She has collaborated with many professional, students\u2019 and teachers\u2019 orchestras. Her most significant work in this field is with the Ravensburg School of Music and with the \u201cAestas Musica\u201d International Summer School of Baroque Music and Dance. On her initiative Aestas Musica was held in Vara\u017edin every year, from 1999 to 2015. She spent several years working in collaboration with the Education and Teacher Training Agency as a lecturer at professional meetings, as well as Chair of the Inter-County Music Teachers\u2019 Council. While collaborating with the Scientific Research Institute, which is part of the Vara\u017edin Branch of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, she produced several professional and scientific papers. She initiated the first international research meeting on the life and work of Johann Baptist Wanhal on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death. Her scientific papers and printed sheet music have been published by Encyclopaediae modernae, the Croatian Heritage Foundation and the Croatian Youth Music Festival.<\/p>\n

She has taken part in evaluation committees at national and international competitions of professional and amateur choirs and orchestras. She has also served on the jury of the Vara\u017edin Baroque Evenings. In 2015 she received the City of Vara\u017edin Award for her life\u2019s work.
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