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Carmina Slovenica is one of the leading vocal institutions. Artistic director: Karmina Šilec. Carmina Slovenica is noted for its innovative programming which explores works from the forefronts of the contemporary music scene.

The CS ensemble has performed on stages worldwide – from Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Grand St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, St. Ann's Warehouse NY, Esplanade Singapore, Teresa Carreño Theatre Caracas, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, RadialSystem Berlin, San Francisco Symphony Hall to Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Jahrhuderthalle Bochum, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Auditorium Rome.

Carmina Slovenica has been invited to art events of the highest esteem such as the World Music Days (organized by the ISCM), Prototype Festival New York, Festival d’Automne á Paris, Moscow Easter Festival, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Ruhrtriennale, the European Symposium on Choral Music (organized by the IFCM), Steirischer Herbst, Holland Festival, Polyfollia, America Cantat, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Europa Cantat, Nuit de Choer Brusseless, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Lublin Theatre Confrontation Festival, Melbourne Festival, International Festival Beijing, Choir Olympics etc.

The main aim of the ensemble and its artistic director is a continual search for new music and new fields of work which has already shown results in a wide repertoire it has today; from early and ethnic vocal music to the latest avant-garde. Carmina Slovenica with its characteristic sound and wide-ranged virtuosity is the ideal ensemble for different repertoires − from a cappella music of all genres to vocal instrumental projects.

Concert tours in almost all countries of Europe, the USA, Canada, Africa, Central and South America, Japan, Malaysia, Australia and China, many top awards at international choral competitions, participation in various international projects, recordings made for many radio and television stations, 20 CDs, 3 DVDs and 1 LP produced, excellent reviews of the ensemble's performances by musical experts and critics ... all these achievements speak for themselves and confirm the ensemble‘s remarkable reputation.

Carmina Slovenica and Karmina Šilec received many international prizes. Carmina Slovenica performs with an artistry that inspires audiences and critics alike and stands as a role model in the international choir movement.

Choregie projects Fortuna Won't Be Fauvel's Match, Toxic Psalms, Placebo, Vampirabile, Rusalki, From Time Immemorial..., Scivias and many others have been received with high praise, and Carmina Slovenica and Karmina Šilec received many international prizes.

Carmina Slovenica performs with an artistry that inspires audiences and critics alike and stands as a model in the international choir movement

CARMINA SLOVENICA PRODUCTION:

Concert and stage production

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: 20 CD: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! books: Karmina Šilec: Nolite tacere 

     Melita Forstnerič Hajnšek: Planet Carmina

DVD: Placebo, What do you have against peasants, Lady?

Education: Choral School CS, Workshops, Seminars

Vocal theatre

Each new Choregie project signed by Karmina Šilec is an expedition into the field of the unknown and the unexplored. Artistically her projects deal with deep research of music for voices, parallel different types of music and various musical eras; by merging the old and the contemporary they create new, exciting contexts in music. They also constantly reintroduce Slovene, contemporary and old, unknown authors. Within the uncompromising frame of the highest standards they continuously prove that vocal ensembles can be outstanding, versatile artistic bodies - superb artistic instruments which are constantly opening up new creative spaces.

With her boldness, provocativeness and erudition that bears no comparison Karmina Šilec transformed various vocal ensembles into superior artistic formations of the highest rank. She expanded the field of choir, chamber and solo singing to reach unimaginable extensions of the most complex creative space of an all-encompassing multi-form work of art. Based on thorough research she created a whole range of conceptual, stylistically and thematically perfected projects, among them Fortuna Won't Be Fauvel's Match, Toxic Psalms, Placebo, Vampirabile, Rusalki, From Time Immemorial..., Scivias and many others. The dimensions of these projects surface in multi-disciplinary stage performances which logically compliment the musical tissue and permeate with basic elements of musical theatre – the concept of Choregie.

Carmina Slovenica was awarded by more than 100 awards and recognitions at home and abroad, among them with prestigious theater award Golden Mask, the Prešern Found Award, Ford Award for preservation of natural and cultural heritage, absolute first place with 100% points at International competition Kalundborg at Denmark, with most outstanding choir of competition "Kathaumixw 94", and many others.

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