Attacca Festival

The Attacca Festival features invited Slovenian children and youth choirs, who are joined by a hosted choir from abroad. They present a thematically rounded-up programme of repertoires primarily composed of works, originating from after 1950, and at the closure of the festival perform some joint musical pieces together. The concerts take place at different locations in Maribor and the neighbouring regions, but the prime venue is currently the Vetrinje Mansion. The festival was launched in 2007 by Karmen Šilec, the head and the artistic director of the Carmina Slovenica choir and production house.

The festival is an extension of the various Carmina Slovenica projects that include different choirs, music publishing, (sung) theatre productions and a diverse set of educational activities. The latter are the main starting point of the Attaca creed, which is organising international collaborations of youth choirs and engaging them in contemporary compositions. As such, Attaca (which also includes residencies, a concert cycle, summer camps and some other initiatives) is very close to the project Songbridge, an international forum for collaborations of this type.

The festival has up until now hosted choirs from France (the A tre voci choir), the United States (the Piedmont Choirs and the Peninsula Women's Chorus), Bulgaria (Detska kitka), Australia, Malaysia and South Africa. The choirs are sometimes joined by renowned Slovenian musicians like for example Vasko Atanasovski and Janez Dovč.

Attaca takes its name from a musical "instruction" directing a performer to go without pause to the next section.

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Attacca Festival web page

Attacca Festival

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