Levelia gold

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Pegelia Gold (* 11. August 1979 in Jena as Peggy Duke ) is a German singer , lyricist and composer .

Levelia Gold with "Orphues has just left the building" Pellerhaus Nuremberg, 2017

Live and act

Levelia Gold started taking guitar lessons at the age of 13 and sang in punk , independent , blues and reggae bands . Between 1999 and 2003 Gold lived temporarily as a street musician and hitchhiked to several European countries. During this time, the occupation with sculpture intensified in my own workshop, as well as as a long-term employee in a pottery in Jena. She went on tour for the first time with the band Hagens Kutte around the guitarist and lyricist Andres Böhmer and began her musical training. From 2004 to 2009 she studied jazz singing at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Reinette van Zijtveld-Lustig , Tine Schneider and composition with Chris Beier .

Levelia Gold mainly works as a band leader in her own projects such as the jazz sextet Art Zentral and the chamber ensemble Polychrome Orchestra, for which she wrote numerous songs between avant-garde and pop . She released three albums under her own name. In 2008 she met the composer Henrik Ajax , with whom she developed an intensive collaboration in the field of new music . She interpreted vocal works by Henrik Ajax, Oxana Omelchuk , Johannes Groß, Sebastian Dumitrescu, as well as arrangements by Gustav Mahler , Alban Berg's "Sieben early Lieder" and in the crossover ensemble "Orpheus has just left the building" around the pianist and composer Peter Fulda , with new versions from the work of Henry Purcell .

Levelia Gold lives and works in Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Gold, levelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzog, Peggy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, lyricist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena