Lauren Newton
Lauren Amber Newton ( born November 16, 1952 in Coos Bay, Oregon ) is an American singer ( vocal jazz, improvised and contemporary music ), composer and university teacher. The singer is one of the most important vocalists of jazz and after Peter Rüedi "one of the most important contemporary vocal improvisers. " She has " developed an instrumental and especially percussive -oriented style, which in its technical perfection, the vocal dimension, but also by the imagination with which they combined musical materials surprising, " today is incomparable.
Life and work
Newton studied until 1975 at the University of Oregon and then to 1977 with Sylvia Geszty at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart vocals and additional composition and new music with Franz Erhard Zubal and Karkoschka. During her studies she went with the Rabold Frédéric crew on tour, graduated with her successful festival appearances involved (eg Deutsches Jazz Festival Frankfurt 1974) and was on their recordings. In 1979, she was the singer of the Vienna Art Orchestra, with whom she played numerous festivals and tours to 1989 on four continents and 17, some important grossed plates (eg Tango from Obango and From No Time to Ragtime ). Together with Bobby McFerrin, Jeanne Lee, Urszula Dudziak and Jay Clayton in 1982 it formed the Vocal Summit (CD, telecast, tour ).
As an actress and composer, the singer both at the Stadttheater Freiburg im Breisgau occurred ( " From the Life of Insects" ) and at the Vienna Burgtheater ( "The Birds" ) out. As a singer and actress, she appeared " at Castle Godollo Sissi" ( Christian Frosch ) in the film.
In addition, she continued to Adriana Hölszky comment for Lauren and carried out further works of the 20th century by Hans -Joachim Hesp, Bernd Konrad, Hannes Zerbe, but also Wolfgang Dauner on. Between 1983 and 1999 she worked in concerts and CD productions with Ernst Jandl at the musical realization of his poems. Your record debut timbre with David Friedman, Thomas Stabenow and Manfred Kniel (1982, re-released on CD as Filigree ) was awarded the German Record Critics' Award for the year 1983. 1993, she was involved as a soloist at Henning Schmiedt processing of Kindertotenlieder Mahler. In addition, she worked with Fritz Hauser, Peter Kowald, Jon Rose, Joachim Kühn, Anthony Braxton, Eckard Kolter man who Südpool ensemble under Herbert Joos and Bernd Konrad, pianist Aki Takase and especially with the bassist Joëlle Léandre, with the she had received the CDs 18 Colours ( 1997), Out of Sound (2002, with Urs Leimgruber ) and Face It (2005 ), but also appeared at festivals. In 2006, she presented a first solo CD sound songs.
After a visiting professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and teaching at the University of Arts Berlin and the Folkwang Hochschule she was bestallt 2002 as a professor of vocal jazz and free improvised music at the Musikhochschule Luzern.