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Zsuzsa Pasztor , Hungary
Kovacs Method
Our special guest, Dr. Zsuzsa Pasztor, from the Kovacs Method Institute in Budapest will give lectures about musical work capacity and all participants will have a chance to try out practical exercises. We believe that the Kovacs Method can improve the musician’s physical, spiritual and mental abilities.
The Kovacs Method, also called "The Care of Musical - Work Capacity" complements and is a part of the domain of music pedagogy. It has evolved during the second half of the twentieth century in Hungary. The Kovacs Method is an integral part of the lifestyle of a healthy musician, a complex system of training, erudite knowledge and a deeply humanistic approach.
The purpose of the Kovacs Method is to serve the people of music, to help them meet their professional and personal obligations, to maintain and develop their physical, spiritual, and mental abilities necessary to carry on a successful life and career, and to prevent occupational impairments.
The premise of the Kovacs Method is that the prerequisite to high performance is the evenness of the human personality (bodily, emotional, intellectual aspects) and the optimal balance of the of the nervous system and hormonal functions in the human organism. The Kovacs Method helps its participants to make taking care of themselves an essential part of their lives. It teaches students and adults to shape their lifestyles, work schedules, exercise regimens and relaxation in a way that enables them to cope with the lives they have to live, and to be successful and happy while fulfilling their vocation and life mission.
More information: www.kovacsmethod.com
Daniel Pastirčák , Slovakia
Writer, Poet, Painter and Pastor
Daniel Pastircák is the artist, which has a big range of interest from writing to painting and music. He will talk about his life and connection between his art and work of pastor. We will have a chance to see some of his paintings and listen to some of his poets. Mr. Pastirčák will be a part of a round table and discuss the theme „What is the reality in art?“
The writer, poet, painter and pastor Daniel Pastirčák was born in 29 January 1959 in Prešov. He is a graduate from the Secondary Technical School in Kosice and Bratislava (the field Ceramics). For a short period of time he had been working in the Bratislava City Art Gallery, then he studied the two year long specialization - restoration at the Institute and theology at the Slovak Evangelistic Theological Faculty (1983 – 1987). Nowadays he works as a Brethren Church preacher in Bratislava. He published his poems, prose-writings, essays at the turn of 80s and 90s in the literary magazine Slovenske Pohlady and Tvorba T, later in the literary magazine Romboid and Mosty. He collaborates with the Slovak Radio and TV. In 1993 he debuted his „love and eternity stories“ by the name Damian river. The book was awarded the Ibby Prize. In 1997 he published the poem book Tehilim. In 2000 he published fairy-tale saga Cintet or the sea at the end of the world. This book was awarded the VUB Prize. In 2005 he publishes his second book of poems Christ in Brussel.
Besides literature he puts his mind to theatrical drama. He translated T.S. Eliot´s Coctail Party. In 2004 he wrote a new drama version of Sain´t Dorothy. The play was performed in the Slovak National Theatre. He is the author of the drama scenario of the theatrical play The Top in the Mist, the movie screen-play Awakened. This sceen-play was placed amongst the five nominating scenarios within the framework of „Cesky lev“.
In parallel with his literary making he devotes his time even to art works: In 1994 – The International Bienale of Book Illustrations in Martin, in 1997 – one-man exibition in London, in 1997 – the exibition of paintings in Klarisky Bratislava within the International Film Festival, in 1997 – participation in Slovak Book Illustrations exibition at the Museum of Art in the Finland town Mikeli, in 1998 – one-man paintings exibition in Prague gallery caffee G + G and in spaces of the Free Europe Radio, in 1998 – participation in collective touring exibition of 55 world illustrators from BIB´97 in Japan, 2000 – the exibition of illustrations in Vancouver Canada.
