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Chiara
Jarrell
sopran



www.chiarajarrell.com


For an instant, sounds and words connect space and time, audience and performers to a living entity in the Here and Now. 
Especially In a living room, quotidian and yet intimate, this entity can find a perfect space to reveal itself, and music is quietly transported into the depths of our being.

Or, as Franz von Schober put it into words:
“Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb entzunden,
Hast mich in eine bessre Welt entrückt!“


BIOGRAFIE:

Chiara May Jarrell is an interdisciplinary artist, who has dedicated herself to music and dance since her childhood. Her artistic identityl combines lyric singing with modern African dance styles, and so she creates a unique connection between sound and movement.

After her bachelor's degree from the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin, she took a master's degree an the Musikhochschule Basel. She continued her education at masterclasses with Patricia Petibon, Margreet Honig, Juliane Banse, Sandrine Piau, Sarah Maria Sun and Anne Le Bozec. SHe has been awarded many prizes including the Music Prize of the Kiefer Habitzel & Ernst Göhner Foundation, first prize with distinction at the Swiss Jugendmusikwettbewerb, and prizes at the international competition Triomphe de l’Art in Brussels and the Lions Club competition in Switzerland.

As a soprano she has been heard in many operatic productions, such as the title role in Mozart by Reynaldo Hahn, as Second Woman in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas or as Tisbe in Rossinis La Cenerentola. Besides this, she reguarly performs as a soloist and in vocal ensembles, for instance in Guillaume Connesson's Medea, Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle oder Honegger's Le Roi David. She has been invited to take part in the Davos Festival and LiedBasel.

She has a special love for the Art Song repertoire, and for contemporary music: here she finds new forms of creative expression.