Karmina Šilec has brought freshness and originality to the world of vocal music, opening new spaces of expression, persuasiveness, intensity of experience, and communication. With “Choregie - vocal theatre” and its innovative interventions, she has opened wider artistic spaces and set trends towards complex multi-media events – productions performed on stages of international festivals and broadcast by the EBU and Eurovision.

As conductor she has projects with various ensembles: Carmina Slovenica Choir, the Radio Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian National Opera and ballet Maribor, the Slovenian National Project Choir, ensemble !Kebataola!, Orchestra Chorus Instrumentalis and many ensembles worldwide.

Karmina Šilec has received more than 20 of the highest and different special awards on International competitions, just to name some: she was awarded with the international Robert Edler Prize for Choral Music, received the Prešeren Fund award for the project “Vampirabile” and most recently an award by the ITI – International Theatre Institute "Music Theatre Now" in the category Music beyond opera.

She also works as an artistic adviser for choral music, gives lectures to conductors and is regularly a guest conductor, jury member or member of artistic committees at festivals and competitions. She teaches conducting at the University of Maribor and lectures at many universities around the world.

Karmina Šilec is the artistic director of Choregie – New Music Theatre, the international project Attacca, the Choregie aka Choregie festival for new music and the concert series Attacca. There are few artistic teams in Slovenia as widely recognizes in the international arena as can undoubtedly be said for the conductor Karmina Šilec’s outstanding ensemble Carmina Slovenica and ¡Kebataola!, together with the movements she created.

CURRENT WORK
Professor of choral cunducting on Univesity in Maribor

Artstic director and conductor:
Carmina Slovenica
Concert choir Carmina Slovenica
Choregie – Novoglasbeno gledališče
International festival Choregie aka Choregie
Ensemble !Kebataola!
Choir school CS
Program Attacca

Projects 2005/2012:
Placebo or Is There One Who Would Not Weep - scenic concert in 14 tableux with Carmina Slovenica, Sabina Cvilak, Bernhard Landauer, Olga Kacjan, Jožica Avbelj, Musica Cubicularis, Slovenski komorni zbor, Kaja Lorenci
Who'd Have Thought That Snow Falls - performative installation with voice with ensemble !Kebataola! and Jovana Popić
Pleading for words, with Carmina Slovenica
Sounds of Asia, with Carmina Slovenica and Nino Mureškič
Rusalke, with Carmina Slovenica
Vertical Thoughts, Choregie project with ensemble !Kebataola!, director Jaka Ivanc
Prasonata, with ensemble !Kebataola!
Na juriš in the mood!, with Carmina Slovenica, Slovenian Armed Forces Orchestra and others
Americas, with Carmina Slovenica and Črnčec jazz trio
Spixody/Stripsody 3, Choregie project with pianist Bojan Gorišek, ensemble !Kebataola!
CS Light, Choregie project, with Carmina Slovenica and STOP
From Time Immemorial... (contemporary music staged performance) in Slovenian National Opera in Maribor
Stripsody 2, Choregie project with ensemble !Kebataola!
Drum cafe, with festival ensemble of Festival of chamber music Music Septembre
Miracles, medeival vocal music, with ensemble !Kebataola!
O Succesoress, with Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Televison Slovenia
Stripsody, Choregie project with ensemble !Kebataola!
Slovenian Sounds, with Carmina Slovenica
Scivias, with Carmina Slovenica
Vampirabile, Choregie project, with Carmina Slovenica
Balkanika, with Carmina Slovenica
Musica Inaudita, with Carmina Slovenica)

Performer:
Ensemble !Kebataola!

CONTACTS

Internet           www.karminasilec-conductor.si

Telephone       +386 41 695112

Skype              karmina3266