At the concert of the Bar Choir “Zima”, at the closing evening of the Choir Festival “In Unity in Singing Heart”, which took place for the previous three days at St. Luke’s Square and in the Church of St. Nikola in Kotor, the audience was presented with a repertoire of well-known compositions: Darko Kraljić: Čamac na Tisi, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas): California Dreamin', Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA): Thank You for the Music, John Lennon, Paul McCartney (The Beatles): Let It Be, Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg: Over the Rainbow, Miladin Šobić: Đon, Nenad Milosavljević, Radoman Kanjevac, Predrag Milosavljević (Galija): Dodirni me, Đorđe Balašević: Ballerina, Folk song: Još ne sviće rujna zora.
The Winter Choir, which is a two-time laureate of the international choir competition in Herceg Novi, is conducted by Varvara Loyko. The choir is a participant in the "Bar Chronicle", "Living Street" and "Dukleu Gardens" Christmas Festivals, choir meetings in Cetinje in 2023 and 2025, and the "Mokranjčevi dani" festival in Negotin in 2024, where it received a charter for performing the music of Sergey Taneyev. It is also the winner of the gold plaque of the International Festival in Kikinda. As part of the "Niš Choir Festivities" event, the choir won an award last year for the coherent performance of Montenegrin choral music. Winter celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025.
Musical accompaniment - piano - Nikita Loyko, bass guitar - Denis Petukhov
drums - Nikita Kozhukhar.
The program was hosted by Dušan Davidović, and after the concert, the vice-president of the Board of the Serbian Singing Society “Jedinstvo” (1839) Kotor, Jelena Dujović, and conductor Mihajlo Lazarević, presented letters of appreciation and special gifts to the festival participants, conductors: Dr. Ana Kairi (Choir of the Church of St. Spyridon from Trieste), Đorđe Catić (Canon from Kragujevac), and Varvara Lojko (Winter – Bar).
“Folk wisdom says: “what was far away has come close.” This is how we have come to the end of the fourth edition of the Choir Festival “In Unity, with a Singing Heart”. As you know, the participants of this year’s edition were the Male Vocal Group “Kanon” from Kragujevac, the Choir of the Church of Saint Spyridon from Trieste, the Choir “Zima” from Bar, as well as the host Choir, the Serbian Singing Society “Jedinstvo”. So that our guests would not only take away memories of the wonderfully sung concerts, as good hosts we made sure to take home lasting memories, plaques and other material from the festival, to always remind them of Kotor, of Unity and of new friendship. Until the next fifth edition of the festival, we greet you with the slogan of the Serbian Singing Society “Jedinstvo” – “With a Singing Heart, with a Singing Heart”. See you next year at the same place, at the same time”, said Lazarević.
The organizers of the Choir Festival were SPD "Jedinstvo" Kotor and the Serbian Orthodox Church Municipality of Kotor, with the support of the Municipality of Kotor and the "Vida Matjan" Secondary School of Music.
(SPDJ Kotor)