Chloe Levy (Gesang)
Vocalist, improviser, classical singer, Chloé Lévy comes from a family of artists (musicians, painter, stage director, actor, street artist). She obtains a professional diploma in Jazz singing at the Ecole de Jazz et Musique Actuelles of Lausanne in 2006. She studies then classical singing and musicology and obtains a diploma in both disciplines from the Haute école de Musique de Genève and the University of Geneva in 2010. She’s currently specializing in new music doing a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in interpretation of contemporary music in the conservatoire HEM of Lugano with Luisa Castellani.
Chloé Lévy studied jazz singing with Susanne Abbuehl. She intensively worked classical singing, interpretation and repertoire with Audrey Michael.
She also studied or worked punctually with Sandy Patton, Lavell Duggan, Ohad Talmor, Steve Swallow, the Roy Hart Theater, Rachelle Bersier, Anthony Di Giantomasso, Jean-Jacques Balet, Christoph Pregardien, Julie Kaufmann, Philippe Huttenlocher, Ulrich Koella, Paolo Zedda, Esther De Bros et Alain Garichot.
Chloé Lévy received the Friedl Wald Grant in 2004 and was laureate of the Nescafé jazz soloist competition in 2005. In 2010 she wins the grant of the cultural department of Geneva and is attributed a six months residency in Berlin (July to December 2011).
From 2000, Chloé Lévy plays in duo with the French pianist Michel Bastet. She develops her own musical language, working with instrumental pieces, arranging them for her voice. Together, they elaborate a dialogue largely including jazz and free improvisation. Chloé Lévy creates then with Michel Bastet, in 2002, the quartet Kéa (C.Regamey, dr., A. Allflatt, b.) for which she starts to compose.
In 2004 Yannick Délez and Chloé Lévy create a duo and record in 2007 the first CD of the Chloé Lévy Yannick Délez duo “Leinicha” in the Rainbow Studio of Oslo with Jan Erik Kongshaug as sound engineer. Leinicha is acclaimed by the press (Jazzman ****, Télérama ffff, Concerto*****). They are invited to play in the International Festivals of France and Switzerland.
In 2006, Chloé Lévy creates the project Conversation, a project of musical and painting improvisation with the painter Madeleine Spierer. In 2007 she invites the german pianist Ingvo Clauder to participate with Claude Jordan (fl) and Philppe Ehinger (cl) to a second version of the project with electronic audio treatment, Conversation II.
In 2008, Chloé Lévy creates with Audrey Michael a season of classical, jazz, création, and improvisation concerts in Chambésy. From 2008 she also interprets classic and contemporary music, especially with Audrey Michael, Audrey Vigoureux, Laurent Bruttin and Jean-Marc Perrin.
In 2009 the Chloé Lévy Yannick Délez Duo is invited by the Cully Classique festival to create music for a nocturn concert around Erik Satie, the duo welcomes then the German cellist Marcus Hagemann and becomes a trio. The same year, Chloé Lévy interprets Nel Giro with Audrey Michael and the philharmonic orchestra of Oradea (Romania) conducted by Leonardo Gasparini, a piece for two sopranos and orchestra by Antoine Duhamel. In 2009, she is invited by the Jazz Onze plus festival to play in quartet with Yannick Délez, Fabien Sévilla and Jérôme Berney.
In 2010, Chloé Lévy creates an ensemble of eleven instrumentists for her recital of diploma, she sings pieces by Mozart, Ravel, Strauss, Delibes, John Tavener and an arrangement by Valentin Peiry of parts of the piece Nel Giro by Antoine Duhamel.
In 2011 she is chosen by William Blank to sing Le Marteau sans Maître by Pierre Boulez and the Cantus Planus by Niccolò Castiglioni . She will sing pieces by Carissimi and Monteverdi conducted by Raphael Leite Osorio, and the Akhmatova songs by John Tavener in duo with the cellist Marcus Hagemann. Chloé Lévy also develops and will record a project around Ariel, a song cycle by Ned Rorem, surrounded with improvisation, in trio with the clarinettist Philippe Ehinger and the pianist Ingvo Clauder.
Chloé Lévy took and still takes part to several other projects, some of them are:
- Mo bop, the album « So Strange » wins in 2003 the Diesel U Music Award in the Urban category. - Drumming by Steve Reich with the percussion ensemble of the festival des Jardins Musicaux de Cernier and with Remi Durupt, tour in France. - The Bovard Orchestra, Cully Jazz Festival, festival des Jardins Musicaux de Cernier
- Eldissa, album « What a difference » (2005), South American film festival of Biarritz, Bangkok Jazz Festival, Jazzplus Festival Sofia.
- Xavier Good Quartet, Montreux Jazz off, International Bern Jazz Festival.
- The female vocal ensemble of contemporary music Polhymnia.
- Vocus a piece for two sopranos, two monophonic synthesizers, piano, synthesis and tape, by Valentin Peiry, Jazz en Ville Festival, Lausanne.
- Big Bang Orkestrâ with Rainer Boesch.
- Opera choir of Lausanne.
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