PORENTA Jelica
Leto rojstva: 1947Commission of Musical Works
Status:
RetiredEducation
- Skopje Music High School (1965/66).- Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Musicology Department, 1976 (mentor Prof. Dr D. Cvetko).
- Faculty for Social Sciences, postgraduate Cultural Studies, 1987, 1988 (incomplete degree - mentor Prof. Dr. D. Rupel)
- Short seminars and educational courses in choral conducting and pedagogy.
Career
- Dramaturge with the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana.- Deputy-Director of the MNT Opera and Ballet of Skopje.
- Music teacher at various Ljubljana primary schools.
- Music teacher at the Hrastnik Music School (piano and music theory).
- Music teacher at the Trbovlje Grammar School, the Jože Plečnik Grammar School, and the Ljubljana Upper Secondary School for Mechanical Engineering.
- Professional collaborator at the Ohrid Summer International Festival (editor of the concert programmes, 1979-1983).
- Professional collaborator and co-organiser of the Music Autumn of Struga Festival (editor of the festival bulletin, 1976-1978).
-Freelance Cultural Worker based on a decision issued by the Cultural Union of the Republic of Slovenia.
-Manager of the concert series Koncertni atelje at Cene Štupar’s Gallery Črnuče-Lj. (editor of the concert programmes for four seasons).
- President of the Commission for the Research of the History of Yugoslav Ballet.
- Member of the Yugoslav Ballet Artists Association (until the disintegration of the common state).
- Member of the professional panel of the Yugoslav Ballet Competition of Novi Sad, 1987.
-Accredited music journalist, commentator and critic, reporting from the Republic of Slovenia to Macedonia (Nova Makedonija, Ekran, Skopski Večer, MRTV), and from the Republic of Macedonia to Slovenia (Delo, Mb Večer, Ljubljanski dnevnik, Naši razgledi, revija Stop, Glasbena mladina), until the disintegration of the common state, ODZVEN Lj. 2015, CEM Sk. 2013, 2014.
- School choral conductor.
- From 1991 to 2011, an active court interpreter, and consecutive and simultaneous technical translator for state and European bodies.
Awards and Prizes
- Some awards and certificates of lesser importance.Bibliography
- Glasba v Vardarski Makedoniji med obema vojnama – 1918-1941 (Music in the Vardar Macedonia between WWI and WWII (Bachelor of Arts Dissertation), Ljubljana 1977. (COBISS) Đorđieva-Porenta, Jelica (ID=10058082).- Glasbeno življenje v Makedoniji med obema vojnama (Musical Life in Macedonia between WWI and WWII, (3rd Musical Autumn of Struga, 1977, paper presentation).
- Glasbeno šolstvo v Makedoniji med obema vojnama (The Music Education System in Macedonia between WWI and WWII, (4th Music Autumn of Struga, 1978, paper presentation).
- Življenje in delo jugoslovanske baletne umetnice Nine Kirsanove (The Life and Work of Yugoslav Ballerina Nina Kirsanova) (10th Ballet biennale, 4th Ballet Symposium, Ljubljana, 1983, paper presentation and documentary photo exhibition).
- Commentaries in music festival bulletins: Ohrid Summer, Music Autumn of Struga, May Opera Evenings of Skopje, Yugoslav Music Tribune of Opatija, Osijek Biennale of Chamber Opera and Ballet, Yugoslav Ballet Competition of Novi Sad.
- Professional reviews of Jeunesses Musicale concerts in Skopje and Ljubljana.
- Professional reviews published in the programme notes of Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, and Skopje MNT Ballet.
- Contributions in the professional music magazine SOKOJ, Zvuk.
- V. Ukmar: Music of the Past, 1972 – translation into Macedonian (unpublished).
MENTIONS:
1. Leksikon jugoslavenske muzike (Encyclopaedia of Yugoslav Music), Volume 1, JLZ Zagreb, 1984,
p. 221, entry : ĐORĐIEVSKA-PORENTA, Јelica.
2. Kdo je kdo za Slovence (Who’s Who for Slovenia), Publisher: Fago Ljubljana, 1993, p. 184, entry: PORENTA, Jelica.
3. Almanach SОКОЈ (Savez kompozitora Jugoslavije), Belgrade, 1980.
4. Some local publications in the Republics of Slovenia and Macedonia.
5. Monograph “50 years of the Ohrid Summer Festival”, Ohrid, 2010, p. 137.
Contacts
Address: Dolgo brdo 15, 1000 LjubljanaTelephone: +386 059 191 009
Mobile telephone: +386 (0) 40 41 31 12
E-mail: jelka.porenta@telemach.net
