Maja Jantar
Maja Jantar is a multilingual and polysonic voice artist living in Ghent, Belgium, whose work spans the fields of performance, opera, poetry and visual arts. A co-founder of the group Krikri (www.krikri.be), she has been giving individual and collaborative performances throughout Europe and experimenting with poetic sound works since 1995.
From 2001 to present, Jantar has directed more then ten operas, including Monteverdi’s classic Incoronatione di Poppea and Sciarrino’s contemporary Infinito Nero. Recently she directed Hans og Gréta with the Óp-Hópurinn group in Iceland, that premièred in Salurinn this march.
Jantar regularly performs with Belgian poet Vincent Tholomé and Canadian poet and multidisciplinarian Angela Rawlings.