Ms. Livljanic has assembled a work so magnificent and moving that its resemblance to what medieval listeners might have heard is beside the point.
The New York Times
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Katarina LIVLJANIC, singer and musicologist, is one of the principal international specialists in medieval chant performance. Born on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, she decided to become a medieval music performer at a very early age, training at the Zagreb Music Conservatory before moving to France to study voice and musicology. She directs the vocal ensemble Dialogos, specializing in medieval 
chant and liturgical theatre of the Glagolitic tradition. For her work in this field, she was decorated for cultural achievement in 2002 by the president of Croatia.
She obtained a Ph.D. at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She is currently Maître de conferences in medieval music at the Sorbonne University in Paris where she codirects a medieval music performance Masters programme. In 1998 she founded a chant performance program at the University of Limerick in Ireland. She is regularly invited as visiting lecturer or artist in residence at Harvard University (Blodgett Distinguished Artist in Residence in 2011). She is regularly invited to numerous universities in Europe, in the United States and Canada as a teacher and resident artist. She has emerged as an important international speaker about medieval chant performance and publishes articles in specialized reviews worldwide. In 2002 she was a guest artistic advisor at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. With Benjamin Bagby (Sequentia), she has been awarded a Cornille Visiting Professorship at Wellesley College (USA) in 2007.
As a vocalist, she also performs in major international festivals with the ensembles Sequentia and Alla Francesca.
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Thanks to musicologist, singer and director Katarina Livljanić, the archaic becomes present, and the Middle Ages speak to us. This is more than a reconstruction!
Le Figaro
• 6 February 2012
Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France, 20:30
Programme: excerpts from Judith (in the framework of the presentation Printemps des Arts de Montecarlo)
www.bouffesdunord.com
• 11 February 2012
Bozar Bruxelles, Belgium, 20:00
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.bozar.be
• 14 February 2012
Kasteel Ammerzoyen Ammerzoden, Netherlands, 20:15
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.kasteel-ammersoyen.nl
• 15 February 2012
Huis Bergh's Heerenberg, Netherlands, 20:
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.huisbergh.nl
• 17 February 2012
Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh Utrecht, Netherlands, 20:
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.vredenburg.nl
• 18 February 2012
Waalse Kerk Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 20:15
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
http://oudemuziek.bo9.nl
• 19 February 2012
Stichting laurenskerk Rotterdam, Netherlands, 20:30
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.laurenskerkrotterdam.nl