Four female singers of Dialogos join six traditional cantors from Croatia, to explore the richness of Dalmatian liturgical musical traditions since the Middle Ages. From Christmas to Easter, they follow the main liturgical celebrations and create a magnificent soundscape composed by learned and traditional chants in Latin and Slavonic languages.
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Josko Caleta is an associate of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore in Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating in Music Studies at University of Split, he received an MA from UBC in Vancouver, Canada (supervised by Prof. Allan Thrasher) with a thesis on “The Social and Musical Structure of Klapa Singing Style: Dalmatia and Vancouver”. His main research interest is the musical anthropology of the Mediterranean and Dalmatian Hinterland.
He is the coauthor of the CD Croatian Traditional Music which presents a selection of fieldwork recordings of the contemporary traditional music of Croatia. Beside his research work, he is also an active singer, arranger, conductor and composer (of klapa singing). He is the author of many articles (mostly in Croatian) on traditional and popular music in Croatia, and is currently completing his PhD dissertation on the musical traditions of the Dalmatian Hinterland.
Autumn 2008
• October 8th, Festival d'Ambronay
Monastère Royal de Brou (Ain), 8.30pm
Programme: premiere of Dalmatica
www.ambronay.org
• October 26th, Festival Medieval d'Elche (Spain)
Programme: Judith
festivalmedieval.com
• November 2nd, Early Music Vancouver (Canada)
UBC Recital Hall, 8pm
Programme: Judith
www.earlymusic.bc.ca
• November 7th, Chicago (USA)
Hyde Park Union Church, 7.30pm
Programme: Judith
chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
• November 8th, Kansas City (USA)
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 8pm
Programme: Judith
www.chambermusic.org