Since its foundation in 1997, Dialogos, the vocal ensemble directed and created by Katarina Livljanic, has emerged as one of the most outstanding and original medieval music ensembles of the new generation. The ensemble’s projects link new musicological research with an innovative approach to medieval music performance, a theatrical dimension, and an expressive musicality. Dialogos is composed of women’s or men’s vocal ensembles, depending on each specific project.

Tondal's Vision

Since its first projects, Dialogos has been acclaimed by critics (in journals such as The New York Times, Early Music America, Le Monde, Le Figaro, El País, The Guardian...) and performed in the most prestigious concert halls and festivals worldwide (Festival of Saintes, Utrecht, Ambronay, Royal Festival Hall of London, Metropolitan Museum of New York, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Boston Early Music Festival, Edinburgh Festival...), including radio and television broadcasts.

Five recordings, published by labels such as Arcana, Sony-BMG, Ambronay Editions, and Empreinte Digitale, have received numerous press distinctions in international music magazines, including Diapason d’or, Choc du Monde de la musique and Goldberg 5 stars.

Lombards & Barbarians

Current programs of the ensemble focus on medieval repertoires: plainchant, early polyphony and musical theatre. Among the theatrical programs, there is a Glagolitic Tondal’s Vision, awarded the prestigious Diapason d’or de l’année, the Coup de coeur by the Académie Charles Cros and the Edinburgh International Festival Angel Award in 2009. Judith, a staged production of a biblical story from medieval Dalmatia received the award of the Split Festival (Croatia) for the best musical performance in 2007. A DVD release of this program is planned in 2010-11. Among other programs, Chant Wars, a coproduction with the ensemble Sequentia, is centered on Carolingian chant and local traditions in Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries. Abbo Abbas offers an innovative vision of 11th-century English polyphony. One of the recent projects, Dalmatica, prepared in collaboration with Kantaduri, a group of traditional cantors from Croatia, was premiered in 2008 at the Ambronay Festival. Dialogos was awarded a three-year residency by Ambronay Cultural Centre between 2006 and 2009.

Barlaam & Josaphat, our latest project, was premiered in Cologne (Germany) in June 2009, in the WDR3 early music concert series.

Dialogos receives a subsidy from DRAC Ile-de-France – French Ministry of culture and communication.

Mécénat Société Générale is the principal patron of the ensemble.

CONCERTS

• 28 August 2010
Festival of sacred and baroque music, Froville, France
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.festivaldefroville.com

• 5 September 2010
Festival Klang Wege, Bundenkunsthalle Bonn, Germany
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.bundeskunsthalle.de

• 9 September 2010
Celebration of the millennium of the Solesmes Abbey
Programme: Laudis vox et organi
Eglise Notre Dame de Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France
www.abbayedesolesmes.fr

• 18 September 2010
Festival Kultursommer, Speyer, Germany
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.vokalmusik-romanische-strasse.de