CHOIR "HADŽI RUVIM"

     The mixed choir of Valjevo church "Hadži Ruvim" was established on April 18th 1993. It was named after the archimandrite of monastery Bogovadja Hadži Ruvim Nešković - one of the most respectable persons among the Serbs at the end of the 18th century. The first spiritual of the choir was Revd. Milorad Sredojević and since 2000 its spiritual has been Revd. Dragan Aleksić.
     The conductor of the choir since its foundation has been Sladjana Torbica; the CO-conductor is Milica Stepanović.
     Besides regular chanting at holy services and other church ceremonies, the choir has had a big number of concerts outside Valjevo - in Serbia, Montenegro, The Republic Srpska, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Chech Republic and Slovakia.

With the blessing recommendation of His Grace LAURENTIUS Bishop of Šabac-Valjevo
To mark the 2000th Anniversary of Christianity
1. N. Kedrov - The Lord's Prayer
2. A. Vedelj - Hide not Thy face from me
3. M. Tajčević - Lord, let me know my end
4. D. Bortnjansky - Praise ye the Lord
5. A. A. Arhangelsky - With my voice I cried unto the Lord
6. P. Dinev - We praise Thee, we bless Thee
7. P. I. Tshaykovsky - Trisagion: Holy God
8. S. St. Mokranjac - The Third Stasis
9. M. Strokin - Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart
10. S. St. Mokranjac - The Deum
11. S. St. Mokranjac - Akathist to the All-Holy Mother of God
12. S. Rahmanjinov - O Virgin Theotokos

     Hadži Ruvim Rafailo Nešković, a painter, graphic artist and engraver (Babina Luka, Valjevo, 1752 - Belgrade, 1804). He was probably first educated in the monastery Dokmir, then in monasteries on Fruška Gora and Sremski Karlovci. He became a priest in 1774 and took monastic vows in 1783. From 1786 when he become the abbot of the monastery Voljavča he gathered gifted young people and taught them artistic craft. His pupils were Petar Nikolajević Moler, Jeremija Mihailović, Janko Mihailović....
     He was promoted the archimandrite of the monastery Bogovadja in 1795. He was one of the leaders in the preparations for the fight against the Turks before the First Serbian Rising. He was executed in Belgrade in 1804.
     Hadži Ruvim engraved crosses, covers for books and wood-carved plates. He decorated the antimension with holy relics for the church at Dokmir in 1779. He made engraved covers with the presentation of the Krušedol monastery (1789), a few crosses in Brankovina and Vranić and many drawings and entries on church books in Brankovina, Bogovadja, Stepanje...
     He was one of the last great Serbian graphic artist of the 18th century. His work represents the connection of the Serbian traditional and European late-baroque art, which played an important role in the development of the fine arts in Serbia at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries.

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