Salon Katarina Livljanić III

Frank and free she goes about her business today: the early music movement. That was not always the case, the history of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis teaches us. Some founders, including the Dutch Ina Lohr, were simultaneously active within early and contemporary music. With Lohr's biographer Anne Smith, co-curator Katarina Livljanić looks back at the early days of the illustrious conservatory and the thinking about music at the time.

Croatian singer Katarina Livljanić is one of the foremost specialists in the field of the medieval song and plainchant performance. Livljanić codirects a medieval music master programme at the Sorbonne in Paris and teaches vocal music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She studied singing and musicology in France. With her ensemble Dialogos she has created many different productions based around medieval chant and liturgical theatre, which have earned her international renown. In 2023, Livljanić was curator in residence of the Utrecht Early Music Festival.