Selected recent publications (2018–2023):

• “Discubuit Iesus: Škof Tomaž Hren, Gornji Grad in slovenski koral.” In Utrinki iz slovenske in evropske glasbene zgodovine: Razprave ob jubileju Jurija Snoja, ed. Nejc Sukljan and Katarina Šter, 153–194. Muzikološki zbornik 59, št. 1–2 (2023), DOI: 10.4312/mz.59.1-2.153-194. https://journals.uni-lj.si/MuzikoloskiZbornik/article/view/17180
• “Koralna glasba na Slovenskem v času Jurija Slatkonje.” In Jurij Slatkonja (1456–1522): Od Kranjske do Dunaja, ed. M. Kokole and L. Žnidaršič Golec, 123 – 142. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, Založba ZRC, 2023.
•  “A Chant Treatise in Service of Two Monastic Traditions of the Modern Era: The Case of the Musices Choralis Medulla.” Muzikološki zbornik 56, no. 2 (2020): 153–181. DOI: 10.4321/mz.56.2.153-181.
• “The ‘Prague Group’ of Music Manuscripts from the Charterhouses Žiče (Seitz) and Jurklošter (Geirach).” In Sammeln, Kopieren, Verbreiten: Zur Buchkultur der Kartäuser gestern und heute, Analecta cartusiana 337, ed. S. Excoffon and C. Zermatten, 491–510. Kartause Ittingen and Saint-Etienne: 2018.
• “Kdo je Begunka pri zibeli: Nekaj misli ob Lajovčevem samospevu.” [“Who is the Refugee by the Cradle: Some thoughts on Lajovic’s song.”] Muzikološki zbornik 54, no. 1 (2018): 31–48. doi: 10.4321/mz.54.1.31-48 http://bit.ly/2IfeGb9

Selected earlier publications:

• “Mary Magdalene, the Apostola of the Easter Morning: Changes in the Late Medieval Carthusian Office of St Mary Magdalene.” Muzikološki zbornik 53, no. 1 (2017): 9–53. DOI: 10.4321/mz.53.1.9-53 http://bit.ly/2Ti8o0z
• “Resacralization of the sacred: Carthusian liturgical plainchant and (re)biblicization of its texts.” Muzikološki zbornik 50, no. 2 (2014): 157–180. http://bit.ly/3cqVB3E
• Srednjeveški koral v kartuziji Žiče: Pogled skozi oči najstarejšega samostanskega antifonarja [Medieval Plainchant in the Charterhouse Žiče: Observing through the Eyes of the Eldest Antiphoner of the Monastery]. Elektronska izdaja. Slovenska glasbena dediščina [Slovenian Musical Heritage], 3. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2013. http://ezb.ijs.si/fedora/get/ezmono:skkz/VIEW
• “Koralni rokopisi slovenskih kartuzij.” [“Plainchant manuscripts of the Slovenian charterhouses.”] In Zgodovina glasbe na Slovenskem 1: Glasba na Slovenskem do konca 16. stoletja, edited by Jurij Snoj, 137–217. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2012.
• “Between uniformity and diversity: Medieval antiphoners of the Charterhouse Žiče in the University Library of Graz.” In Kartäusisches Denken und daraus resultierende Netzwerke vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit, Analecta cartusiana, 276/5, edited by James Hogg, 111–144. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Salzburg, 2012.

Katarina Šter is a research fellow at the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU. Her work is focused primarily on musical traditions of the monastic orders and on liturgical plainchant through history. She is also interested in the relationship between words and music in early vocal music. She presented numerous papers at conferences in Slovenia and abroad and published several papers on Carthusian liturgical tradition and Slovenian song in various musicological and other journals. Her monograph on the earliest antiphoner from Žiče (Seitz) received the Excellent in Science ARRS Award for 2013. Since 2020, she has been a lecturer of the course Word – Music – Ritual at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.

After studying musicology and comparative literature with literary theory at the Universities of Ljubljana and Regensburg, Katarina Šter graduated with theses on the chorale settings in Bach cantatas and on Schiller’s Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. As a junior researcher at the Institute of Musicology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), she studied medieval liturgical chant with Prof. Jurij Snoj as her mentor. During her doctoral studies, she also enriched her knowledge of Gregorian chant and its performance with Prof. Franz Karl Praßl at the Artistic University of Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz; with the scholarship Go Styria) and researched sources in the Bibliothèque Municipale in Lyon with a research grant of ZRC SAZU. In 2010, she earned her doctoral degree with a thesis on characteristics and interconnections of six medieval antiphoners of the Charterhouse Žiče, for which she was awarded the Silver Order of ZRC (a special prize given for excellence in doctoral theses) in 2012.

In connection with her work on the relations between the Carthusians and other traditions, she carried out specialized research at the Schola Cantorum in Basel (Switzerland) with the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship in 2014/2015. In Basel, she also embarked on a short research project with Dr Agnese Pavanello and Kelly Landerkin with the Scholarship for International Short Visits of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2016, she successfully concluded a postdoctoral project Forms and transformations of the monastic musical traditions in medieval Europe, financed by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS Z6-5562). Since 2019, she has been a leader of the project Old traditions in new vestments: Musical and textual reworkings in the performing practice of liturgical music (ARRS J6-1809). She is also an active member of several editorial boards and specialized societies.

Katarina Šter is also active as an early music singer. In 2019, she earned a Specialized Masters in Music Performance (Medieval and Renaissance music) in signing in the class of Kathleen Dineen at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Kelly Landerkin, Dominique Vellard, Katarina Livljanić, Marc Lewon, and Baptiste Romain were also among her teachers. She has been an artistic leader of several vocal ensembles, among them the ensemble insula memoriae, dedicated to the Gregorian Chant and Renaissance Music performance. She is also a member of an international music ensemble The Obsidian Collective. Alongside the concert activity, she leads workshops in Gregorian chant and medieval music for professional and amateur musicians.