Vita Mavrič is different, and in our environment a unique artist – she is a singer, an actress, the program manager of her own theatre and more. As a singer she is dedicated to the chanson, where she can show the two faces of her talent – being a singer and being an actress. She places a lot of importance on the texts she chooses which have to be highly poetic and convincing. She leaves an impression of a strong and determined person on stage as well as in her private life. She is hard working and completely dedicated to her profession. I have enjoyed working with her and I hope this collaboration will continue in the future.
She’s the founder and art director of Café Teater in the centre of Ljubljana, where she has hosted numerous music events - and on top of that she is an ambassador of Unicef. That’s Vita Mavrič.
Her mother is from Slovenia’s Koroška region, her father from Primorska on the coast. She grew up in Celje in the centre and after primary school, continued her studies in Maribor and then Zagreb. Today she lives and creates in Ljubljana. Her musical path began when she had to choose between two of her loves: stage and music. She chose chanson which combines both.
Her musical career started on the stage of Ljubljana City Theatre 28 years ago in the musical "U slovenačkim gorama" (In the Slovene Mountains). That same year, she released her first album, and a year later, prepared her first solo concert after which she devoted her life to chanson. The musicals, music-theatre works and, of course, the music-theatre project of Ježek's chansons "Ne smejte se, umrl je klovn" (Don't Laugh, a Clown Died), a variety of chansons and even an opera "Sneguljčica" (Snow White) followed.
Following her opening of the theatre Cafe Teater in Ljubljana and managing the festival of chansons "La Vie en Rose", her place among the stars of the Slovene chanson could never be forgotten. In particular in the festival of chansons, she gave an opportunity to young, less famous Slovene singer-songwriters. As an actress, she established herself in the film Bel epok (Belle epoque), a story about Sarajevo before the World War I. For her lead role she received an award at the Serbian Film Festival in 2007. For years, she and her team prepared the festival of chansons, a festival that finally said goodbye to its audience just this year in the Gallus Hall of Cankarjev Dom.
What pushes Vita to constantly create in so many different fields? "The chansons and the theatre themselves, of course. Why does a man climb a mountain? Because it is there. It stands there and you go up," she said in one of the numerous interviews.
Livija Kovač Kostantinovič, SINFO
Vita Mavrič is different, and in our environment a unique artist – she is a singer, an actress, the program manager of her own theatre and more. As a singer she is dedicated to the chanson, where she can show the two faces of her talent – being a singer and being an actress. She places a lot of importance on the texts she chooses which have to be highly poetic and convincing. She leaves an impression of a strong and determined person on stage as well as in her private life. She is hard working and completely dedicated to her profession. I have enjoyed working with her and I hope this collaboration will continue in the future.
