Karmina Šilec has brought freshness and originality to the world of music and theatre. As a theatre director, conductor and composer she has projects with various companies: drama and opera houses, festivals and ensembles worldwide. She has developed the artistic concept Choregie theatre driven by music, which focuses on the creation process that brings the musical notion of composing to the theatrical aspects of performing and staging. Her projects are provocative, daring; her ideas break taboos, those of the society as well as of music.
In a creative process Šilec is interested in the things that do not only have an unambiguous meaning. Different elements (movement, music, word, the visual) are merged into a »meta composition« and this the fusion gives various semantic directions. Her choregie projects are 'theatrical' but 'dramatic' comes from the way how materials are used and perfomed, and not through ”acting” in a classical sense.
With her boldness, provocativeness and erudition Karmina Šilec transformed various ensembles into superior artistic formations of the highest rank. Her productions have received many awards and have been performed at most prestigious festivals and stages worldwide, such as the Ruhrtriennale (DE), Festival d'Automne á Paris (FR), Holland Festival (NL), Moscow Easter Festival (RU), Dresdner Musikfestspiele (DE), Golden Mask (RU), Melbourne Festival (AU), Operadagen Rotterdam (NL), Teatro Colon (AR), Prototype Festival NYC (USA); and were broadcasted by the EBU and Eurovision.
Karmina Šilec was awarded with highest prizes for her work: ITI - Music Theatre Now award, was nominated for the prestigious Europe Theatre Prize – New Theatrical Realities (EPTR), won the Golden Mask theatre award (together with Heiner Goebbels), Robert Edler award, Sterija award and more than 20 other highest international awards.
In 2018-2019 she was a fellow at Harvard University/Radcliffe Institute for advanced studies.
She is artistic director of world well-known vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica and of Newmusic Theatre Choregie.
Karmina Šilec has brought freshness and originality to the world of music and theatre. As a theatre director, conductor and composer she has projects with various companies: drama and opera houses, festivals and ensembles worldwide. She has developed the artistic concept Choregie theatre driven by music, which focuses on the creation process that brings the musical notion of composing to the theatrical aspects of performing and staging. Her projects are provocative, daring; her ideas break taboos, those of the society as well as of music.
In a creative process Šilec is interested in the things that do not only have an unambiguous meaning. Different elements (movement, music, word, the visual) are merged into a »meta composition« and this the fusion gives various semantic directions. Her choregie projects are 'theatrical' but 'dramatic' comes from the way how materials are used and perfomed, and not through ”acting” in a classical sense.
With her boldness, provocativeness and erudition Karmina Šilec transformed various ensembles into superior artistic formations of the highest rank. Her productions have received many awards and have been performed at most prestigious festivals and stages worldwide, such as the Ruhrtriennale (DE), Festival d'Automne á Paris (FR), Holland Festival (NL), Moscow Easter Festival (RU), Dresdner Musikfestspiele (DE), Golden Mask (RU), Melbourne Festival (AU), Operadagen Rotterdam (NL), Teatro Colon (AR), Prototype Festival NYC (USA); and were broadcasted by the EBU and Eurovision.
Karmina Šilec was awarded with highest prizes for her work: ITI - Music Theatre Now award, was nominated for the prestigious Europe Theatre Prize – New Theatrical Realities (EPTR), won the Golden Mask theatre award (together with Heiner Goebbels), Robert Edler award, Sterija award and more than 20 other highest international awards.
In 2018-2019 she was a fellow at Harvard University/Radcliffe Institute for advanced studies.
She is artistic director of world well-known vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica and of Newmusic Theatre Choregie.
Karmina Šilec has brought freshness and originality to the world of music and theatre. As a theatre director, conductor and composer she has projects with various companies: drama and opera houses, festivals and ensembles worldwide. She has developed the artistic concept Choregie theatre driven by music, which focuses on the creation process that brings the musical notion of composing to the theatrical aspects of performing and staging. Her projects are provocative, daring; her ideas break taboos, those of the society as well as of music.
In a creative process Šilec is interested in the things that do not only have an unambiguous meaning. Different elements (movement, music, word, the visual) are merged into a »meta composition« and this the fusion gives various semantic directions. Her choregie projects are 'theatrical' but 'dramatic' comes from the way how materials are used and perfomed, and not through ”acting” in a classical sense.
With her boldness, provocativeness and erudition Karmina Šilec transformed various ensembles into superior artistic formations of the highest rank. Her productions have received many awards and have been performed at most prestigious festivals and stages worldwide, such as the Ruhrtriennale (DE), Festival d'Automne á Paris (FR), Holland Festival (NL), Moscow Easter Festival (RU), Dresdner Musikfestspiele (DE), Golden Mask (RU), Melbourne Festival (AU), Operadagen Rotterdam (NL), Teatro Colon (AR), Prototype Festival NYC (USA); and were broadcasted by the EBU and Eurovision.
Karmina Šilec was awarded with highest prizes for her work: ITI - Music Theatre Now award, was nominated for the prestigious Europe Theatre Prize – New Theatrical Realities (EPTR), won the Golden Mask theatre award (together with Heiner Goebbels), Robert Edler award, Sterija award and more than 20 other highest international awards.
In 2018-2019 she was a fellow at Harvard University/Radcliffe Institute for advanced studies.
She is artistic director of world well-known vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica and of Newmusic Theatre Choregie.
