Irena Tomažin
“Shadow Voices”
We’re very pleased to be working with Slovenian voice and movement artist Irena Tomažin on a new longer term radio commission titled ‘Shadow Voices’ that will be premiered in our 2026 broadcasts.
Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer, performer, vocalist, singer and improviser, strongly present on the local and international scene. As a musician she made her name with solo project iT, project for voice and dictaphones, where she uses forms of songs, sound poetry, spoken word, theatre, text and performance. The project took her on the path of deconstruction of voice which she deepens as an improviser, solo artist or in various groups and collaborations, where she went further with exploration of sound and noise of the voice, textures and in-between spaces of voice, body and bodily mechanics.
She performs solo or in collaborations with among others: Tomaž Grom, Lee Patterson, Xavier Charles, Christof Kurzmann, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Šalter Ensemble, Tim Blechmann, Michael Zerang, Liz Allbee, Alessandra Eramo, Ilia Belorukov, Okkyung Lee, Maja Osojnik, Christian Kesten, Ina Puntar, Dré Hočevar, Matej Bonin and others.
Irena has performed her solo project iT or as experimental vocalist at numerous national and international festivals (Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje, Dobia, Vienna, Biel, Basel, Geneva, Budapest, Berlin, Baltimore, Wels, Tokyo, Kyoto, Kassel, Wuppertal, Wroclaw, Paris, Manchester, Beirut).
Her compositions for voice and body were published in the books “Une exposition à être lue” and “Chorégraphier” by Mathieu Copeland and performed in Geneva, Paris, and Madrid.
She has created nine voice-movement performances exploring the connections between voice, gesture, body, space, and sound.
Irena regularly leads workshops on voice and movement. Over the last years, she has given regular workshops in Slovenia and in Berlin, but has also taught in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Italy, France, Germany, USA, Japan (in 2009 in Kyoto and Tokyo), and Lebanon.