Jasmina Črnčič is a singer from Maribor, Slovenia. Drawing on her rich experience in choral and theatre work as well as a classical formal education, she now specialises in the performance of the music from the Middle Ages. She is a member of the critically acclaimed ensembles for medieval music Sequentia and Per-Sonat, and devotes much of her time to developing new pedagogical approaches which are especially suited for the study of the music of the early/high Middle Ages.
She is on the faculty of the International Course on Medieval Music Performance Besalú (Medieval Music Besalú). As a member of the Slovenian ensemble Carmina Slovenica she has performed in numerous staged and concert productions both as a part of the vocal ensemble as well as a soloist at many festivals and concert venues around the world (New York’s Prototype Festival, Melbourne Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam, Radialsystem V Berlin, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, and others). She is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Summi regis archangele Michael // A sequence composed by Alcuin for the emperor Charlemagne // Aachen, 9th century
Performed and recorded live at Festival Radovljica, SI in August of 2021.
Accompanied by Benjamin Bagby as part of Sequentia's program titled 'Hus in Himile'.
The text was translated by Peter Dronke.