Corin Curschellas

Corin Curschellas ( born July 2, 1956 Chur, Romanesque pronunciation [ ˌ kɔrin kur'ʃe: lɐs ] ) is a Swiss singer -songwriter, singer ( jazz, folk, folk music, world music, chanson ), improvisation artist ( " instant composing ") actress ( theater, film, musical), spokesperson (radio plays, audio books) as well as a vocal coach.

  • 4.1 Own Productions
  • 4.2 employees

Life

Curschellas came in 1956 in Chur (Graubünden, Switzerland ) and grew up on ibid. She attended the district school Chur and graduated in 1977 with the primary teacher's certificate from.

From 1977 to 1983 studied Corin Curschellas drama and theater studies at the Zurich University of the Arts as well as three semesters musicology at the University of Zurich.

From 1983 to 1989 Corin Curschellas lived in Berlin, then two years in Basel. Thanks to a scholarship, she moved in 1991 to Paris, where she lived until finally in 2000, with a two -year hiatus in New York from 1995 to 1997. Between 2000 and 2005 she shuttled between Paris and Zurich.

"I've always lived in a different world, but the poems and songs have a connection with my home made ​​. [ ... ] I had already homesick. In Berlin, I was reading the thickest books on Romansh culture. Before that interested me hardly, but there I wanted to know. I met so many people who talked about their origin, that I also tried to clarify my identity or strengthen. "

From this turbulent period of their lives as well as the song Senza patria, German Without home dates.

Since 2005, the artist lives in Zurich and in sursilvanischen Rueun, 30 km from Chur. In Rueun she lives with her partner, the sculptor Linard Nicolay, the home of their grandparents, the house of her childhood.

Corin Curschellas actual mother tongue is Swiss German. Although she has learned from her father, almost perfect to talk Sursilvan she writes itself does not Romansh songs. However, it sings lyrics and songs of Romansh authors in all Romansh idioms and RG.

In the context of the Roman roots and returning to Rueun deepening Corin Curschellas says:

" Jeu en Sundel ina fasa dalla veta nua ch'igl an sco cal mellis dutgs vegnessen ensemen by sbuccar ella mar. Vegn egg does pli ruasseivel, ferm e curaschus, pli clar e concentrau. "

"I'm in a phase of life come in the quasi thousand streams together to pour into the sea. It is all quiet, firm and courageous, clear and focused. "

Work

Singing

Corin Curschellas vocally covers different genres from jazz, folk, chanson, world music, folk songs, musical improvisation. She describes himself ironically as " Tonträgerin ".

Corin Curschellas sings most Romansh, Swiss German and English, but in addition also in high German, French or Italian or even in fantasy languages.

From 1977 to 1983 Corin Curschellas worked with Walter Lietha and dropped this albums such as The Fahrenda or Liebi Schwiizer guet night before.

Between 1993 and 1997 Corin Curschellas was the singer of the Vienna Art Orchestra. In 2009, she was again with this orchestra on tour.

Then Corin Curschellas worked on productions of Peter Scherer, Noël Akchoté, David Byrne, Andreas Vollenweider, Max Lasser ( Overland Orchestra ), Fritz Hauser, Heiri Känzig, Christian Marclay, Hélène Labarrière and Yves Robert. With Steve Argüelles, Christophe " Disco " Minck Benoît Delbecq and it was at times an integral part of the jazz and improvisation group The Recyclers.

She released eight albums with their own songs and has completed numerous musical projects. For this purpose, selected details in chronological order:

  • With the Musiciens du Nil, Christy Doran and Fritz Hauser, she toured in 1991 by Egypt and Tunisia.
  • With guitarist Nguyên Lê, bassist Richard Bona and drummer Steve Argüelles she appeared from 1991 to 1995 in a Jimi Hendrix project entitled " Are You Experienced? " At numerous festivals in Europe, North Africa and La Réunion.
  • In Paris in 1992 Corin Curschellas wrote the song La pura ( German The farmer's wife ), based on the eponymous poem of the priest and poet Gion Cadieli. It connects the language put forward in an alpine, traditional topic with strangers, Moroccan sounds. The song came back in the hot rotation of the national broadcaster DRS 3
  • When her first big world music project created in 2000 Sud des Alpes: Corin Curschellas connects in cooperation with the Senegalese Douane Saliou Sène and Abdou Samb Swiss folk songs with sounds and rhythms from Senegal, and even with the Senegalese language Wolof. The song La pura place within this project, a new form.
  • Also in 2000, was the world music project Global Vocal Meeting with Corin Curschellas, Abdoulaye Diabate (Mali), Rinde Eckert (USA), Mónika " Mitsou " Juhász Miczura (Hungary ), Sudha Ragunathan (India) and Senge (Madagascar), in the framework of the votes festivals Lörrach. The first performance in Lörrach was followed by a tour across Europe and the United States.
  • Together with Christine Loud Castle and Walter Lietha she sings in the groups since 2001 Echo and Double Bock German Swiss folk songs in folky arrangements.
  • With the Swiss jazz pianist Vera Kappeler together Corin Curschellas occurred in 2004 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich in the peacock Matinée by Werner Want Berger on, and along with it, and Wolfgang Mitterer and Peter Herbert, she toured in 2005 under the name "We 4» by Austria.
  • With the Turk Özay fencing, she founded in 2005 a global Neujahrslied project.
  • In the album Grischunit of 2008, she sings in Ladino and is accompanied by Marc Ribot, Peter Scherer, Shahzad Ismaily and Matt Johnson. The recording took place ironically in the most urbane New York, far from the rural Romansh. The texts were written by Linard Bardill, Benedetto Vigne, Ann Dee, Thomas Cathomen, Arno Camenisch and Corin Curschellas itself The name of the album refers to a rare mineral from the group of Wick Site, which occurs only in Graubünden world.
  • With the album La Grisha 2012 Corin Curschellas presented in cooperation with Albin Brun, Patricia Draeger and Claudio Strebel a collection of old, Romansh folk songs, with an idiosyncratic mix of instruments: Swiss accordion / Accordion, Duduk, Soprano Saxophone, toy piano, Waterphone and double bass.
  • The album Origins ( trad.) 2014 brings Romansh forgotten folk songs back to the days song. The album was co-produced with the violinist Andy Gabriel and the folk musicians of the group Pflanzplätz. Guest singers are Ursina Giger and Astrid Alexandre.

Instrumental music

Corin Curschellas is multi-instrumentalist: she plays piano, keyboards and the Indian harmonium, Dulcimer and other zithers, percussion, ukulele and the accordion.

Music Ethnographic aspects

A large part of the musical work by Corin Curschellas has a ethnographic aspect: she collects old Romansh heritage - in the case of Origins ( trad.) they used the archive " Alfons Maissen " from the 1930s - the texts disseminated with their albums and concerts and drawn parallel to the songbook La Grisha. The book La Grisha comprised of not only the lyrics and harmonies to the songs from the albums La Grisha and Origins ( trad.) music ethnographic information of iso Albin. This ethnographic work has her already introduced the term " grande dame of contemporary and traditional Romansh treasure of songs ." At the same time distances itself Corin Curschellas of Alpine folklore in pop style.

In this context is also the concert project Suisse Miniature: The project sprang from a " Convivenza " event for the Lia Rumantscha in 2010 By 2013, a collection of songs original languages ​​Walser German, Italian and Romansh emerged in the three Grisons. . The name of the project takes on a reference to the open-air facility Ticino Swiss miniature and secondly to the fact that the canton Graubünden is linguistically and culturally a kind of Switzerland in miniature.

With La Pura in 1992, first working with ethnographic aspect is indeed already something back. Nevertheless Corin Curschellas sees a biographical connection:

"The older I get, the greater the affinity for old songs. "

Solopgramme

Since 2005 Corin Curschellas occurs in musical solo programs:

  • 2005: mono ( " Six instruments, six languages ​​and a film plane ")
  • 2010: Pomp on credit ( " A dramatic -musical swan song ")
  • 2011: scenting and tweet ( " Songs of a humanoid Bestiary ")

From the mono program comes Corin Curschellas setting the Canzun de Sontga Margriata ( German Song of the Saint Margaret ), one of the oldest Romansh texts at all. The song is about the Sontga Margriata, who works as a man dressed as Senn on an alp, whose panel is, however, revealed by a disaster. Corin Curschellas interpreted the song in terms of environmental protection and sustainability:

" The fertility goddess Margriata stands for me as emblematic of the nature [ ... ] and the respectful conscious use of their gifts. If we betray this original knowledge, then wither the slopes and slide around, the sources dry up, our bees are dying, eternal ice melts in the Alps, the polar caps also. Since fish die in polluted rivers, our oceans are puddles of oil, the seas will soon be fished out, swim in it miles of plastic trash rugs. "

Composition

Her first substantial composition wrote Corin Curschellas 1979/1980 or during their period of study, namely, the composition for the theater piece Woman by Edward Bond at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich under the musical direction of George Gruntz.

Corin Curschellas composed in 2003 together with Christian Rosli the music for the television film Meier Marilyn by Stina Werenfels.

2014 developed Corin Curschellas the cultural and political composition project " Uccelin - a songbird Suite ". The suite is a homage to and support for the art project " Uccellin " ( German " little bird ") of the Chur artist Hans Danuser. Substantive issue is the counting rhymes of children, political issue is the influence of politics on art.

In addition, Corin Curschellas composed songs for Michael von der Heide (such as the award-winning title Jeudi amour, 1998), formerly of Vera Kaa and Dodo Hug.

Theater

Corin Curschellas worked among others in the following productions as an actress with:

2006 and 2007 had Corin Curschellas as a woman Rossi in the musical The black brothers. In 2008 she played in the musical parents evening at the theater at Pike Place.

Radioplay

Corin Curschellas worked in 2008 with the radio play Jimmy Flitz by Roland Zoss, where she spoke the figure of the tiger fly and sang. In 2009, she acted as spokesperson and singer in Fritz Hauser's radio play on the edge of the horizon. In 2012 she participated in the radio play by Arno Camenisch Ustrinkata on SRF 1 with a spokesperson role.

Film

Corin Curschellas occurred in 2005 in the film Marmorera on as an actress.

Education

Corin Curschellas was a teacher at the music school in Kreuzberg during their time in Berlin. She was occasionally a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the University of Lucerne.

Prizes and awards

Discography

Own Productions

Corin Curschellas has released eight solo albums since 1992:

Cooperation

Corin Curschellas starred in productions of the following artists:

  • Walter Lietha: 1977 - 2007
  • Max Lasser: 1977 - 2009
  • Andreas Vollenweider: 1983 - 1992
  • John Wolf Brennan: 1985
  • Hardy Hepp: 1988 - 1994
  • David Byrne: 1991
  • Roland Van Straaten: 1991
  • Creative Works Orchestra: 1991 - 1993
  • Linard Bardill: 1993 - 2005
  • Vienna Art Orchestra: 1993 - 2009
  • Machination: 1994
  • Yves Robert: 1994
  • Heiri Känzig: 1994
  • Andi Scherer ( band " Yal "): 1998
  • Christian Marclay: 1996 - 1999
  • Alex Kirschner: 2000
  • Pareglish: 2000
  • Nguyên Lê: 2002
  • Gardi Hutter: 2003
  • Curdin Janett (Project Standards of Romansh ): 2005
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