She made dozens of radio pictures and also recordings on compact discs. She was a prominent dramaturg, she attended hundreds of concerts and performances all over the world. Stanislava Střelcová informed about the death on behalf of the survivors. “They are currently working out the form of the final farewell,” she said.
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Kulínská was born on January 11, 1935. At the age of nine, she joined the Kühn Children’s Choir and a year later the newly founded Children’s Choir of the Czechoslovak Radio, whose choirmaster was music teacher and leading theorist in the field of children’s singing Bohumil Kulínský. Between 1950 and 1954 she studied at the Pedagogical Gymnasium for the education of national school teachers.
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Kulínský, whom she married, entrusted her with the leadership of the preparatory department of the Children’s Choir of the Czechoslovak Radio. She privately studied singing with Emma Matoušková and Růžena Urbášková, music theory with Zdenek Hůla and piano with Ema Doležalová. Between 1972 and 1977, she led the Boys’ Choir of the Prague Men’s Choir FOK.
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Marta Vančurová and Blanka Kulínská
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After ending her collaboration with the Czechoslovak Radio in 1973, she and her husband were at the birth of the successful Bambini di Praga choir. Later, with her son Bohumil Kulínský, she founded a private choral singing school at Bambini di Praga, where she taught choral singing. The choir Bambini di Praga ended its activity in 2011 after almost 40 years. It was damaged by the affair of his former choirmaster Bohumil Kulínský Jr., who was convicted of abusing minor members of the ensemble.
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Blanka Kulínská and Bohumil Kulínský
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Bohumil Kulínský the elder died on April 11, 1988, Bohumil Kulínský the younger was found dead at home on September 15, 2018.
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Kulínská composed several song cycles for a children’s choir, arranged a number of folk songs with piano accompaniment and musically processed the Letem světem band with Bambini di Praga. In November 2010, she received the prestigious Award for lifetime artistic contribution to the development of children’s choral singing from the Czech Music Council.
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