Heiner Goebbels / Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica (D, SLO)

Heiner Goebbels, born 1952 in Neustadt/Weinstraße, lives since 1972 in Frankfurt/Main. He studied sociology and music.The composer and director belongs to the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published by Ricordi Munich are currently performed worldwide as well as several of his music theatre works and staged concerts. The music theatre productions “Max Black“ (1998), “Hashirigaki“ (2000), “Eraritjaritjaka“ (2004), “Stifters Dinge“ (2007) and “I went to the house but did not enter“ (2008) are in the repertoire of Théâtre Vidy. “Schwarz auf Weiß“ (1996), “Eislermaterial“ (1998), “Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten“ (2002) are in the repertoire of the Ensemble Modern. The London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment perform “Songs of Wars I have seen“ (2007) and the Ensemble Klang (N) an ensemble version of “Walden“ (1998). Heiner Goebbels works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University in Gießen (Germany) and is President of the Theatre Academy Hessen. From 2012 to 2014 he is the artistic director of the International Festival of the Arts Ruhrtriennale.

www.heinergoebbels.com

The ensemble Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica with its artistic director Karmina Šilec is noted for its innovative programming which explores works from the forefronts of the contemporary music scene. With “Choregie – vocal theatre or theatre of voices” Carmina Slovenica is introducing a concept which incorporates contemporary music, drama, movement and other stage elements. With this concept of vocal theatre the ensemble has performed on stages worldwide – from Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space to the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, from Hong Kong Cultural Centre to Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, it did concert tours in almost all countries of Europe, the USA, Canada, Africa, Central and South America, Japan and China, and made recordings for many radio and television stations, fifteen CDs and one LP. Many productions have been awarded prizes on different occasions, recently in 2008, when Karmina Šilec received an award from the International Theatre Institute Music Theatre Now in the category “Music beyond Opera”. 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 the wide repertoire that it boasts today; from early and ethnic vocal music to the latest avant-garde.

www.zbor-carmina-slovenica.si