Joško Ćaleta

Joško Ćaleta (2 October 1964) is a Croatian ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, conductor, composer, record producer and klapa singer. He is a member of the Croatian Composers’ Society He received the Master of Arts title in 1994 with the thesis Social and musical structure of the klapa singing style, Dalmatia and Vancouver at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, under the mentorship of prof. Alan Thrasher. Career He started singing in 1979 in Klapa Trogir. Ćaleta described his beginnings with klapa in article from 1997: After he received further music education at the Music academy in Split, he became conductor of the klapa (1985–1989). Ćaleta also directed klapas “Radovan” and “Kairos”, as well as “Zvonimir” (1989–1997), composed of Croatian Canadians in Vancouver. Under his guidance, “Zvonimir” was winner of the best ethnic choir award in Canada in 1994 and 1996. Following his return to Croatia, he conducted klapas “Omiš”, “Nostalgija”, “Jelsa”, “Sagena” and “Dišpet”. He is record producer of around twenty music albums dedicated to klapa and other types of traditional singing in Croatia, six of which earned Croatian discographic award Porin (recorded by klapas “Nosta