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Chanson ECHO JAZZ 2010!
Céline Rudolph
| Germany
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Frank Abraham
+49 30 261032920
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The voice artist Céline Rudolph is unanimously celebrated by the press as the vocal discovery of recent years. The young singer astonishes with her fresh, expressive voice which seems effortlessly to clear all the hurdles of vocal art. With unbelievable ease she breaks all the boundaries from Brazilian sounds to Jazz scats, from an emotional feeling to free expression. She is a master in mood creation and her personality is naturally magical. Not only Groove, Brazil, Ethno, but also filigreed sound poetry and exciting improvisations: a play with the poetic moment which is captured, painted and set free. Born in 1969 and brought up in Berlin, she was already influenced by music in her childhood. At the age of twelve, she wrote chansons, inspired by her mother, a Frenchwoman. Her father introduced her to Afro-American and Brazilian music.
In her parent’s record collection, Céline discovered the Portuguese language as a stylistic element. In short: multi-track orientation was on the cards from the start. First, she studied rhetoric and philosophy, but music exerted a stronger pull, and so she started a degree in jazz singing and composition at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with David Friedmann, Jerry Granelli, Kirk Nurock and Catherine Gayer. In 1990 Céline Rudolph founded “out of print”, her first band, with whom she published two CDs with Nabel Records, won the “1. Leipziger Jazznach-wuchsfestival” and toured widely in Africa and the Balkans. Numerous festival performances, radio, TV and CD productions made her well-known and got her in contact with international music celebrities such as Bob Moses, Anthony Cox, Marc Ducret (to be heard on her CD “Segredo”) and Gary Peacock (CD “berlin, 1999”) in coming years. In 1995 she plunged into African music and stayed to study with the percus-sionist Famoudou Konaté in West Africa.
In the late nineties she moved to Cologne, performed as a guest in many creative bands who were part of the scene and, in 2001, won the “Szene Nordrhein-Westfalen” contest as part of the “Leverkusener Jazz-tage” with MOSAÏQ, and the “JazzArt – Musik des 21. Jahrhunderts” contest with her band “Fábula”, where they were selected by the international jury including Django Bates, Nils Petter Molvaer and Huub van de Riel. “Fábula” is the band with whom she works intensely on her own musical forms. An important artistic partner in this respect is the Cologne-based pianist Juergen Friedrich. She shares her passion for voice improvisations in purely vocal encounters with Lauren Newton, Gabriele Hasler, Bobby Mc Ferrin and the band MOSAÏQ, which is built around the singers Daniel Mattar and Britta-Ann Flechsenhar and Michael Schiefel.
Performances with Lee Konitz, Bobby McFerrin or David Friedman run alongside cross-over projects such as Peter Fulda’s adaptation of Arnold Schön-berg’s “Pierrot Lunaire”, “Barock meets Jazz” with the French countertenor Gérard Lesne for the Bayrischer Rundfunk, as well as the CD production of Moritz Eggert’s composition “wide unclasp” with Gerry Hemingway among others. Céline Rudolph conducts dialogues in all areas between entertainment and
serious music.
In 2003 she was appointed professor in Dresden and managed the Jazz/Rock/Pop singing department of the Hochschule für Musik “Carl Maria von Weber”. In 2004 her compositions were performed at the “Köln Triennale” by the “Cologne Contemporary Jazz Or-chestra” with Céline Rudolph as soloist. Different ar-rangers such as Florian Ross, Christina Fuchs and Marko Lackner rewrote her music for the full orchestra on the occasion of this music festival. In 2005 she finished her new album “Brazavenure”: for this, she travelled to Brazil, and met the producer Rodolfo Stroeter (who produced among others Gilberto Gil’s
“Olodum” for the label Pau Brasil) and other top-flight musicians such as Marcos Suzano, Toninho Ferra-gutti, Paulo Bellinati, Mônica Salmaso and Sérgio Santos in São Paulo. She has composed new vocal and instrumental music for the next album and is working on her project “…wo alles Lust und Klang”: German songs from the Romantic period and folk songs with romantic verse in unusual arrangements for jazz quartet and strings - trance-like, transfigured, soft and fragile. Romantic and erotic subtexts can be teased out of the verses. In 2006, by invitation of the Goethe Institute, she joined a musical and cultural exchange project of several weeks duration with Mo-zambican musicians living in Lisbon. The music was performed in Lisbon, Maputo and Berlin.
