Plečnik & A-Cappella 2025: 2. concert

Zvezdana Novaković is a Slovenian artist exploring the boundaries of her musical and performative expression. In search of resonant singing in open voices, she has set out to explore folk songs from Slavic and Balkan cultures. She has worked with and learned from authentic singers from Bulgaria, Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia, Poland, Croatia and Slovenia.

The product of five years of research is the Slovena Voices project, which features new compositions of folk songs by Zvezdana Novaković herself. The singers of the quartet, who sing in a specific open-voice technique that resonates and is rich in ornamentation, as well as other peculiarities of Slavic and Balkan cultures, will take us back to ancient times. In the performance of Slovena Voices, the ancient and the modern meet, contemporary classical composition is intertwined with jazz harmonies and improvisation with the sound of tradition.