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| Psalterium was founded in 2001 by the non-profit organisation Society of Spiritual Music (SSM), whose calling is, as is already evident from its name, to contribute towards the advancement of spiritual music. SSM organises music schools, courses, seminars, conferences, organises and co-organises concerts, festivals, issues publications and other materials, as well as spending significant funds on reconstruction and renewal of organs, thus helping to renew and develop spiritual and cultural life all over our country. It uses incomes created by Psalterium to finance these activities. It would probably not even be possible to name all of the enterprises which SSM has taken fundamental or partial credit in the creation of together with Psalterium. Probably the largest, most important and most famous is the International Spiritual Arts Festival known as the St. Wenceslas Festival, which has existed since 1992. One of the regular and now established events is the St. John Festival held in May with great participation by the people, both in St. Thomas Church, as well as on the procession to the statue of St. John of Nepomuk on Charles Bridge and also during the finale at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on Křížovnické náměstí. The Convivium summer school of spiritual music has already become an international school, the St. Cecelia Meeting provides an opportunity for all those who want to contribute to the advancement of spiritual music to meet. To name but a few of the music competitions: the Dvořák Composition Competition (2004), held in cooperation with the liturgical committee of the Archdiocese of Prague and the Diocese of Plzeň. We have been issuing the musical bi-monthly Psalterium since 2007 and in the same year, the musical public praised our launch of the Cyril Internet Project – an electronic form of the magazine on the web and also another Internet project, the non-commercial publication of old prints by Alberik Mazák. Psalterium was founded as a concert and artistic agency, which from the moment of its creation has specialised in organisation of cultural and social events, especially in historical buildings in Prague, but not exclusively in these. The scope of our activities, knowledge and experience is however much wider. Thanks to the superb renown of the Society of Spiritual Music, our company was entrusted with administration of St. Nicholas Church in the Lesser Town in 2002, i.e. other than production of concerts, our main activity was overall administration of this important national cultural monument, ensuring its operation, tours, guide services, as well as provision of tourist information to tourists and also the inhabitants of the Czech Republic. Over the past ten years, we have organised hundreds of concerts, be this regular concerts of church music during the summer season, or concerts relating to Advent and Christmas time, which have become a tradition during the winter. In addition to this, we also actively support organisation of the Czech Television Advent Concert in St. Nicholas Church in the Lesser Town or in St. Vitus Cathedral. We are a sought-after partner for travel agencies and companies for organisation of private events and an accompanying programme for incentives, congresses and conferences, not only in St. Nicholas Church, but also in other traditional and non-traditional premises. We always devote an exceptional amount of attention to dramaturgy and selection of performers. We strive to ensure that they meet the appropriate cultural and artistic level, but we also take into consideration who the concert is being held for. Demands may certainly be higher for a private party; it is difficult for a regular tourist to get his or her bearings in a programme which does not include the names of any musical geniuses. Despite this, Psalterium presents not only attractive names of famous composers and performers in terms of its concerts, but tries to bring something new to the cultural life of Prague, to present works that have not been played so much until now, less well known pieces, yet despite this works by high quality composers, but we also do not forget about the regular Czech listener and try to ensure variety in our repertoire. Thanks to our many years of experience gained both in the field of tourism in one of the most important Czech travel agencies, as well as a decade of activity relating to overall administration of a historical building, we would like to continue to develop our activity in the field of culture and tourism. We cooperate with important entities from this field, participate in important conferences and parliamentary negotiations, as well as being in constant contact with travel agencies and tour guides and utilising their knowledge to constantly improve our work. We are prepared, and are able, to organise any social and cultural event for you and your clients, including comprehensive service, concerts, incentive events, lease of attractive premises for conferences, presentations or social events. We are also expanding our activities to include operation of an information centre, sale of tickets to cultural performances, provision of complete incoming services and a small gallery with exhibits available to buy in the Galerie Michalská branch.
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