NORA FISCHER
Vocals
Amsterdam-based vocalist Nora Fischer is renowned for her adventurous approach to live performance and her creative and genre-defying collaborations. Her very first solo performance, in which she cooked for her audience to create an intimate feeling of coming together, was the starting point of a rich career in which she passionately kept searching for ways of overcoming differences and bringing opposite worlds together. She is most comfortable right at the sweet spot where different music genres and performing arts join forces and forget that they once had strict boundaries. Her “affinity with experimental classical styles and sharp dramatic instincts” (New York Times) have led to close collaborations with composers, ensembles and theatre/dance/mime directors such as Louis Andriessen, Simon McBurney and Silkroad, and to solo performances at prestigious venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Lincoln Center and the Philharmonie de Paris. But she also found her way to pop and theatre audiences at Lowlands Pop Festival, WOMADelaide and a mysterious forest at the the Oerol Theatre Festival.
Nora is driven by the strong belief that her audience can take more than the comfort zones they are generally given credit for, as long as it’s brought to them in exciting and accessible ways. She brought contemporary music to pop festivals and pop influences to classical venues, always searching for that which connects and is universal. Her award-winning debut album HUSH, which appeared on Deutsche Grammophon in 2018, brought 17th-century music into the singer-songwriter realm, and was received with open arms at squat houses, roof terraces, pop temples, theatre festivals and classical concert halls worldwide – and was hummed along by toddlers as well as 90+ year old’s who joyfully re-discovered their favorite music.
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