Thea Soti

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Thea Soti (2015)

Thea Soti (born September 3, 1989 in Subotica , Yugoslavia ) is a Hungarian singer and composer .

Live and act

Soti, who first grew up in Serbia, received classical music lessons from the age of six. As a classical pianist, she won several international competitions. From 2005 she opened up to other genres such as jazz music , first in Budapest, later in Berlin, where she received lessons from Esther Kaiser and Lisa Bassenge . She wanted to direct and therefore first studied film and media studies . From 2010 she studied jazz singing and composition at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Romy Camerun and Julia Hülsmann and at the University of Lucerne with Susanne Abbuehl . Then followed a master’s degree at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . A central concern of her is working with the human voice and the combination of free improvisation with open composition.

In 2010 Soti founded the world music project Nanaya (with Daniel S. Scholz ( oud ), Johannes Keller (double bass) and Jonas Pirzer (drums)), in which she sings mostly in Hungarian. She has performed in Central Europe, but also in Southern Europe and Eastern Europe with this and other bands, such as Manivolanti , the Viktor Bürkland Trio and the Thea Soti Quartet .

Soti is a founding member of the composers collective Sung Sound , which has worked with various big bands. She has composed for large-format ensembles such as the Modern Art Orchestra , The Daniel Sebastian Scholz Big Band , the Subway Jazz Orchestra , Fette Hupe, Cherry Tree Orchestra and the Tonhallen Orchestra .

Furthermore she belongs to the jazz trio RYMM with Salim Javaid (saxophone) and Anthony Greminger (drums). Her performance concert "Electrified Islands" - Avantgarde Songs for 4 voices and orchestra with Taya Chernyshova , Mascha Corman , Rebekka Salomea , Thea Soti, Leonhard Huhn , Moritz Wesp , Elisabeth Coudoux , Sebastian Scobel , Stefan Schönegg , Anthony was performed several times in 2017 and 2018 Greminger.

Prizes and awards

In 2014 Soti won the second prize at the international composition competition JazzComp Graz.

Discographic notes

Thea Soti (2014)
with foundation stone + het woudkoor
with NaNaya
  • far.home.east (2016, square records)
with Mascha Corman
  • Monsters for Breakfast (2016, Creative Sources Recordings, with Salim Javaid)
  • Too Much to Carry (2020)
with The Daniel Sebastian Scholz Big Band
  • DDSSBB (2015, square records)
with Adam Gallina, Tivadar Nemesi, Paul Schwingenschlögl
  • Hang Caravan (2012, Orient)

Web links

Commons : Thea Soti (vocalist)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nanaya . www.szimpla.hu. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  2. ^ Thea Soti & Cherry Tree Orchestra . www.prinz.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Concert at the Goethe-Institut: NaNaya . www.goettinger-tageblatt.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  4. ↑ Nanaya (Hungarian) . www.mediawavefestival.hu. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Àlmatag, gyönyörü (Hungarian) . www.delmagyar.hu. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  6. ^ Thea Soti a Budapest Jazz Klubban (in Hungarian) . www.kikotoonline.hu. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  7. ↑ Tea Kettesben - tea for two helyett Thea Soti többszemközt (Hungarian) . www.jazzma.hu. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ The intimate improvisational stlye of Thea Soti and Quartet (English) . www.praguepost.cz. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ Jazzový Thea Soti Quartet se představí pražskému publiku "(in Czech) . Www.muzikus.cz. Accessed March 19, 2016.
  10. ↑ Sung Sound: Seven singers, one big band . www.noz.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ Németországból jöttem (in Hungarian) . www.jazzma.hu. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  12. ^ The winners of the Jazz-Comp-Graz-2014 (in German) . www.kug.ac.at. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Soti, Thea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Subotica , Yugoslavia