Géraldine Keller
Géraldine Keller (born December 7, 1966 in Strasbourg ) is a French singer (soprano) who works in both the fields of old and new music and as an improvisation musician .
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Keller initially earned a master's degree in fine arts and studied singing at the Conservatoire National de Region de Strasbourg, focusing on jazz and the contemporary vocal repertoire; she also studied contemporary dance and theater. She interpreted works by Giacinto Scelsi , Georges Aperghis , John Cage , Luca Francesconi , Luciano Berio , Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and György Kurtág and worked with François Rossé , Gualtiero Dazzi , Christophe Havel , Hans-Joachim Hespos , Thierry Alla and José Luis Campana . In addition, she went on free sound research with Jean-Pierre Drouet and Tristan Honsinger . Since 1992 she has participated in numerous music, dance and theater productions across Europe. She was a member of the improvisation group Da-Go-Bert , which existed from 1996 to 2006, and belongs to the ensemble] h [iatus around the cellist Martine Altenburger and the percussionist Lê Quan Ninh . She performed the composition Aura Christinae by Norbert Rodenkirchen and Harald Kimmig several times in the Rhineland together with the singer Maria Jonas . In the field of jazz she works in the groups of Claude Tchamitchian .
Discography (selection)
- Etienne Rolin : Cross Fire (erol records, 1994)
- François Rossé / Ensemble Proxima Centauri: Per causalidad (Alba Musica 1997)
- Thierry Alla / Ensemble Proxima Centauri: Toiles (Tempéraments 2000)
- Gaston Jung & François Rossé: Sienge un Saawe (Le Drapier 2001)
- Thomas Agergaard : Little Machine (stunt 2002, with Peter Fuglsang, Klaus Löhrer, Hank Roberts , Krister Jonsson, Miroslav Vitouš , Jim Black )
- Da-Go-Bert: Pique-nique (Tirouz 2003, with François Heyer, Jean-Christophe Kaufmann, Pascal Gully)
- Apollo: Adieu les filles (Arfi 2009, with Jean-Paul Autin , Jean-Luc Cappozzo , Alain Gibert , Gilles Chabenat )
- Franck Vigroux: Broken Circles Live (D'autres cordes 2010, instrumental with Ars nova ensemble under the direction of Philippe Nahon )
- Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Géraldine Keller: Air Prints ( Ayler 2013)
- Claude Tchamitchian Sextet: Traces (Emouvance 2016, Daniel Erdmann , François Corneloup , Philippe Deschepper , Christophe Marguet )
- Peter Jakober / ensemble] h [iatus (Césaré 2017)
Web links
- portrait
- Information on Géraldine Keller in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Géraldine Keller at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Agergaard: Little Machine (Liner Notes)
- ↑ Aura Christinae 2004
- ↑ Festival in Puhlheim: troubled listeners to the core , Kölner Stadt Anzeiger , June 8, 2008
- ↑ Meeting (Sundance)
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SURNAME | Keller, Géraldine |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French singer (soprano) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |