Noemi La Terra

Noemi La Terra (* 1978 in Wolfsburg ) is an Italian singer and musician . She comes from a Sicilian family and grew up bilingually in Germany .

Career

After a few semesters of Ancient and Medieval History and Romance Linguistics, she studied jazz singing at the Dresden University of Music with Céline Rudolph and early music with Ludger Rémy.

From 2012 to 2014 she followed a master’s course at the Folkwang University in Essen on the subject of "Music of the Middle Ages ", where she learned to play the medieval hurdy-gurdy and the Gothic harp . Numerous master classes, for example with Benjamin Bagby, Anne Azéma, Monica Mauch and Marco Beasley, complemented her studies.

After completing the master’s degree, there was an advanced training course on medieval music at a castle in Fürsteneck in Hesse with Marc Lewon, Uri Smilansky and Babtiste Romain, which was completed in November 2016. She gained a wide range of experiences as a singer in jazz with all its different facets, in gospel , in new music , improvisation , traditional southern Italian and Arabic music and as a mezzo-soprano in early music with her own projects and with renowned ensembles such as "Sarband" (headed by Vladimir Ivanoff ) and "Ars Choralis Coeln" (cond. Maria Jonas). She is a member of the “Berlin Soloist Choir” (headed by Christian Steyer), which gives concerts every year with the “New Old Christmas Carols” program.

Guest performances have taken her across Germany, France , Switzerland and Austria , as well as to China and New York . For several years she has been researching the chants of her original homeland, Sicily. Her new program is called “Canti Del Mare E Della Terra” (Songs of the Sea and Earth), where she and her musicians have worked on Sicilian ways and stories from Sicily.

Projects

Her projects are “Donnafugata” with which she dedicates herself to early music and “Zagara”, a mixture of jazz and Sicilian folklore. As "Donna in Fuga" she can also be experienced solo as a cantastory (story singer) with currently two programs: Songs of the Trobadors and Laude from Florence and Cortona. In the summer of 2017 she founded a women's schola "Cantica Sibyllarum" in Dresden, which deals with the music of the Middle Ages.

Private

She lives in Dresden with her husband and three children .

Discography

• Ensemble Donnafugata, Lamentatori di Montedoro, Noemi La Terra, Susanne Ansorg and Peter Rabanser: "La Voce Della Passione" (German: "The Voice of the Passion", Raumklang, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Noemi La Terra. Retrieved February 8, 2018 (Swiss Standard German). 
2. ↑ LaTerraNoemi. Accessed February 8, 2018 (German). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Noemi La Terra: Noemi La Terra - Crowdfunding Profile - Startnext. Retrieved February 8, 2018 . 
4. ↑ LaTerraNoemi. Accessed February 8, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Noemi La Terra. Retrieved February 8, 2018 . 
6. ^ Noemi La Terra - Projects. Retrieved February 8, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).