Jelena Kuljić

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Jelena Kuljić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јелена Куљић ; * 1976 in Zrenjanin , Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian jazz singer and actress .

Career

Kuljić appeared from 1995 as a solo artist and as a singer in various bands. In 2003 she moved to Germany to study jazz singing at the Berlin Jazz Institute . As Yelena Kuljic , she first released the albums Y Move ( minor music , 2006) and Yelena K & The Love Trio ( Double Moon Records , 2010). She was also heard on Marc Sinans and Julia Hülsmann's album Fasıl ( ECM , 2009), the album Bum Bum by the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and Paul Brody's Behind All Words . In the formation KUU! she plays with Kalle Kalima , Frank Möbus and Christian Lillinger . With Z-Country Paradise , Kuljić appears with Frank Gratkowski , Kalle Kalima, Oliver Potratz and Christian Marien .

From 2005 she worked in numerous musical theater productions under the direction of David Marton , a. a. in Fairy Queen or if I hadn't met Glenn Gould (after Henry Purcell , 2005), at the Volksbühne Berlin in Wozzeck by Alban Berg (2007), at the Hamburg Thalia Theater in Die Krönung der Poppea after Claudio Monteverdi (2009), at the theater Hanover in Lulu based on Frank Wedekind / Alban Berg (2010) and at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in The Well-Tempered Clavier (music theater based on Johann Sebastian Bach using the novel Melancholie desstands by László Krasznahorkai , 2012). Kuljić was also seen at the Vienna Burgtheater , the Dresden State Theater and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

Since the 2015/2016 season she has been a permanent member of the Münchner Kammerspiele ensemble under the direction of Matthias Lilienthal .

Discographic notes

  • Sex against food (2013, shoebillmusic, with Kalle Kalima, Frank Möbus, Christian Lillinger)
  • Z-Country Paradise (2015, Z-Paradise Records, with Frank Gratkowski, Kalle Kalima, Oliver Potratz, Christian Marien)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait at Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer
  2. Information about the album at ECM ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecmrecords.com