Statuette of Stevan Mokranjac, as the winner of "Natpevanja horovov", 59. "Mokranjac days", on the stage of the negotin Cultural Center, in competition of six top ensembles, was built by Nemanja Savić, conductor of the Serbian Singing Society" unity " from Banja Luka in the Republic of Srpska.- Serbian Singing Society "unity" from Banja Luka was founded in 1893. for years and for all the years of its existence, it was leaned on the magnificent work of Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac. Even today our choir has a large part of the spiritual and secular repertoire of the greatest Serbian composer. It was a special pleasure for us to be in his hometown and present ourselves to the festival audience – said conductor Nemanja Savić.
The conductor of the award-winning choir, Nemanja Savić, presented the statuette to Vladimir Veličković, President of the Negotin municipality, while Danijela Marković, director of the "Stevan Mokranjac" cultural center, awarded the "Mokranjac days"plaques to the conductors of all participating choirs.
The jury consisting of Prof. Dr. Sonja Marinković, Prof. Dr. Dimitrije Golemović and M. A. S. O. Tatarcevski awarded diplomas to the participants of "singing" in special categories.
For the most exciting artistic range of the evening for the performance of "the body of Christ", by Miodrag Govedarica, the performance of the choir "Sveti Sava" (Austria), led by Iva Mrvoš anokić, was announced.
The Pancevo Serbian church singing society with conductor Vera Carina was awarded for homogeneity and nobility of choral sound, and the soloist of this ensemble, Sinisa Radin, was named the best at the "singing".
The men's choir “Planina PRI Sevnici " (Slovenia) conducted by Matej Romih, according to the decision of the jury, had the most attractive stage performance.
The diploma for the most successful interpretation of contemporary music was awarded to the Chamber Choir “Vox Mirabilis” (Hungary) with conductor Katica Zemlenji.
Svetlana Krstic Aksnes, artistic director of the women's choir "Naika Dekorum" (Norway), was named the most successful conductor of "singing", while this ensemble received the recognition for the most successful performance of Stevan Mokranjac's work – "coastal songs".
This year's" singing "had an extremely international dimension, and the festival audience, which filled the Hall of the Cultural Center" Stevan Mokranjac " in Negotin to the last place, enjoyed the performances of five foreign choirs and one domestic one.