Carmina Slovenica
Carmina Slovenica is a production house from Slovenia. It's concert and music theatre productions has toured internationally. Artistic director of Carmina Slovenica is a conductor and director-author Karmina Šilec. The Carmina Slovenica vocal theatre has performed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Grand St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, St. Ann's Warehouse NY, Esplanade Singapore, Teresa Carreño Theatre Caracas, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Radial System Berlin, San Francisco Symphony Hall, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Jahrhuderthalle Bochum, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Auditorium Rome, the World Music Days, the Prototype Festival New York, the Festival d’Automne á Paris, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Dresden Musikfestspiele, Ruhrtriennale, the European Symposium on Choral Music, the Steirischer Herbst, the Holland Festival, the Polyfollia, the America Cantat, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, the Europa Cantat, the Nuit de Choer Brussels, KunstFestSpiele, the Herrenhausen, Lublin Theatre Confrontation Festival, the Melbourne Festival, the International Festival and the Beijing Choir Olympics.
selected projects
- Fortuna Won't Be Fauvel's Match
- Threnos (for the Throat)
- Toxic Psalms
- Placebo
- Vampirabile
- Rusalki
- From Time Immemorial...
- Scivias
- Dert - endemic songs
- VOGP - music for survival
- Adiemus
- Na juriš in the mood!
major artistic programs
- Choregie: Choregie series Coproduction of the international competition and new music theatre festival Choregie
- Ensembles: Carmina Slovenica Concert Choir, Ensemble ¡Kebataola!, Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica
- Attacca: Festival, international projects, concert cycle, residence programme, special social programs
- Publishing:
- books: Karmina Šilec: endemic songs, Melita Forstnerič Hajnšek: Planet Carmina, Karmina Šilec: Nolite tacere
- CD'S: VOGP, DERT, Laude Cortonese, Toxic Psalms, Vampirabile, Laude Cortonese, Musica Inaudita, Na juriš in the mood!, Americas, Time and places, Balkanika, Slovenian sounds, Drum cafe and others 1
- LP: Na juriš in the mood!
- DVD: Placebo, What do you have against peasants, Lady?, Threnos, Placebo
- Education: Choral School CS, Workshops, Seminars
selected awards
- Golden Mask
- the Prešern Found Award
- Ford Award for preservation of natural and cultural heritage
- First place at International competition Kalundborg at Denmark
- Most outstanding choir of competition "Kathaumixw 94"