Irina Karamarković

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Irina Karamarković (* 1978 in Pristina , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian singer , composer and author who has performed in jazz and world music and has mastered various vocal techniques from the Balkans.

Live and act

Karamarković comes from a family of musicians; her grandfather was a composer and collected traditional songs, her mother was a classical violinist and composer. As a child she sang at various festivals and on television, then as a teenager in various rock and alternative bands. She also had her own music programs on Radio N, Pristina. First she studied ethnology and anthropology at the University of Belgrade , then jazz singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy , but also Jay Clayton and Michele Hendricks .

During an engagement in the musical " The Black Rider " she met Sandy Lopicic , with whose Orkestar she appeared from 1998 and with whom she recorded two CDs. In response to the war in Kosovo , she recorded the album "Songs from Kosovo" with her quartet, which was released in 2009. She also worked with the LA Big Band around Lois Aichberger, with whom two albums were created, "Sounds of Kosovo" and "The Controversy of Independence."

With her literary texts, she won the Dositej Obradović literature competition and the “Escape Routes” literary prize from the Graz street magazine “ Megaphon ”, as well as the Amerlinghaus literature prize 2004 for “Writing Between Cultures” Music from Southeastern Europe in Austria's jazz scene ”with a focus on socio-cultural, political, economic and musical aspects.

Discographic notes

  • Irina Karamarkovic, Christian Masser & Kurt Bauer: Mr. Hitler / Spielfeld - Music for Refugees (Nasaomusic, 2015)
  • Guitars of Love: How I Failed to Trick My Destiny (Numavi Records 2015)
  • Guitars of love: Nietzsche in Love (Pumpkin Records 2015)
  • DIVA featuring Ewald Oberleitner Trio (Eisbär Music 2014)
  • LA Big Band feat. Irina Karamarkovic The Controversy of Independence (GESA Records 2009)
  • Songs from Kosovo ( GLM 2009, with Stefan Heckel , Wolfram Derschmidt , Viktor Palic)
  • Lorenz Raab XY Band Blue Silk (Universal Records 2007)
  • LA Big Band feat. Irina Karamarkovic Sounds of Kosovo (ATS Records 2007)
  • Sandy Lopicic Orkestar Balkea (Network Media 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait (Fürsteneck Castle)
  2. ↑ a b Sounds of Kosovo (south wind)
  3. ^ A b after Borko Ivanković's master's thesis Serbian migrants as literary workers in Austria
personal data
SURNAME Karamarković, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian singer, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Pristina