Dialogos

Since 2005 Albrecht Maurer is a member of the Parisian ensemble Dialogos. Under the direction of Katarina Livljanic, Dialogos creates various programs in different instrumentations.


Albrecht Maurer plays in the monodrama "Judith" after texts by Marko Marulic, in a musical reconstruction by Katarina Livljanic with stage design light and text projection. He also performs in the concert program "Barlaam and Josaphat", in "Heretical Angel "s that Dialogos created together with the Croatian group Kantaduri and in "Nexus Winchester" that premiered in 2018 at the Festival Laus Polyphoniae Antwerp. In 2022 will premiere a new program Hecuba, queen of Troy.


Ensemble Dialogos is internationally active, it has its home in Paris, where Katarina Livljanic headed the department of medieval music at the Sarbonne. Today she is a professor at the Scola Santorum in Basel. For more information, please visit the Diologos website.

"With Dialogos, in 2004, I immersed myself in a world that was completely new to me. The style of medieval accompaniment is based on a culture of improvisation and experience with different modes. My experience in jazz and with archaic timbres comes in handy here. I love the harmony of Katarina's alto voice with traverse flute and gothic fiddle. Even before Dialogos, I began an intensive musical collaboration with my Cologne colleague Norbert Rodenkirchen, in which we improvised freely on our instruments without commentary. This resulted in a sound that is very rich in resonances of the purely tuned fiddle and the transverse flute. Such an experience of overtones and their superimposition was unknown to me before."


Albrecht Maurer

Katarina Livljanić - Musical direction, scenario, voice

Francisco Mañalich - voice, Vielle

Norbert Rodenkirchen - flutes, dvojnice

Albrecht Maurer - fiddle, lirica


Joško Ćaleta - voice and direction

Milivoj Rilov - voice

Srećko Damjanović - voice

Nikola Damjanović - voice

Ante Podrug - voice

Katarina Livljanic - Gesang, Leitung

Clara Coutouly - Gesang

Norbert Rodenkirchen - Traversflöten, Harfe

Albrecht Maurer - Gotische Fidel, Rebec, Lyrica

Katarina Livljanic - Gesang, Leitung

Norbert Rodenkirchen - Traversflöten, Dvojnice

Albrecht Maurer - Gotische Fidel, Rebec, Lyrica


Joško Ćaleta - voice & direction

Jure Miloš - voice, gusle, diple, dvojnice

Srecko Damjanović - voice

Nikola Damjanović - voice

Milivoj Rilov - voice

Katarina Livljanic - Gesang, Leitung

Norbert Rodenkirchen - Traversflöten, Harfe

Albrecht Maurer - Gotische Fidel, Rebec, Lyrica

The CD is already recorded and coming soon.

Katarina Livljanic - Gesang, Leitung

Norbert Rodenkirchen - Traversflöten, Dvojnice

Albrecht Maurer - Gotische Fidel, Rebec, Lyrica

The Boston Globe, USA:


"It takes a linguistically skilled artist and patient study to reconstruct and arrange the relics of that truly distant past in such a way as to create a work that grabs the modern listener. The resulting piece is a captivating and at times unforgettably beautiful work in which Livljanic's pure intoned voice is the centerpiece. Her undulating vocal lines create a certain melancholy expressive power, and a wealth of piquant dissonance causes this music to sound both very old and very new. Sanda Hrzic has created an organic production, with a poetic play of light and shadow, while the excellent musicians Norbert Rodenkirchen and Albrecht Maurer drift and float around the singer.... It's an excellent example of how scientific and musical know-how can be used to create something new."

Vancouver Review, Canada:


"All three musicians are so well attuned to each other and responded so immediately that you appear as one unit, no one is dominant and all are equally necessary. With a selection of early music and Croatian folklore instruments, Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutist and expert in medieval music, and Albrecht Maurer, strings, jazz musician and specialist in improvisation, follow every nuance of Katarina Livljanic's very powerful and flexible voice. The music is rich and opulent in sound, with long, hypnotic lines. Lvljanic`s subtle interpretation of the story captivated the audience."

New York Times:


Katarina Livljanic staged the ancient drama with gloriously pure singing in Croatian, haunting narration, an intense gaze and expressive hands. Norbert Rodenkirchen, the flutist, and Albrecht Maurer, playing several archaic fiddles, added contemplative tension and the occasional biting dissonance. They joined in on stage and acted as accompaniment, chorus and foils. Sanda Herzic's simple staging and Marie Bellot's sympathetic lighting added a touch of ritual to the production.

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