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Carmina Slovenica
![]() Street address: Društvo Carmina Slovenica, Partizanska 5, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Telephone: 386 (0) 2 251 2215
Fax: 386 (0) 2 252 5224
E-mail: carmina.slovenica@guest.arnes.si
Website: http://www.zbor-carmina-slovenica.si
Contact: Karmina Šilec Director
E-mail: karmina.silec@kksonline.com
Carmina Slovenica, a female youth choir led by Karmina Šilec, is one of the most internationally-renowned avant-garde vocal ensembles. It creates contemporary music projects and has introduced a new concept called choregie or vocal theatre, which incorporates music, drama, movement and other stage elements. Its most recent stage productions include Scivias, Vampirabile, Slovene sounds, Adiemus, and From Immemorial Times. All of them were award-winning productions that were performed at many international festivals and broadcast by EBU and Eurovision.
The choir, with its characteristic sound, is the ideal ensemble for different repertoires, from a cappella music of all genres to vocal instrumental projects such as Musica Inaudita – music written by composers from the 9th to 17th centuries, or Veneziani Ospedali – music written for performance by orchestras and choirs of young girls in Venetian charitable institutions from 1500-1800. Carmina Slovenica has performed on concert stages worldwide, at Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre in Ljubljana as well as at the San Francisco Symphony Hall, the Teresa Carrero Theatre in Caracas, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.
Carmina Slovenica has attained the Prešeren Award and many of the highest awards at international choral competitions, and has produced seven CDs and 3 DVDs. The Choir has presented its programmes at the World Music Days (organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)), the World Symposium on Choral Music (organised by the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM)), the Eastern Festival in Moscow, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the European Symposium on Choral Music (also organised by IFCM), Polyfollia, America Cantat, the Choir Olympics and Europa Cantat, European Forum of Youth Choirs.
Carmina Slovenica is registered as a cultural NGO, as it is organised not only as a concert choir but also as a choral school with educational departments.
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