From my early childhood onwards other cultures and their music fascinated me. From my mother who had been studying classical music I got a lot of musical input. Also my participation in a Carl Orff orchestra as well as my studies of piano at the conservatory completed my musical upbringing. In the concerts we were giving I was playing all sorts of flutes, drum, xylophone and singing soprano as well as alto. The Beatles and their Complete Album never ended to be the source of inspiration, alongside to operettas and groups like Earth, Wind and Fire, The Wings or Santana.
Travelling also started in toddler years,- and as well my attachment to cultures and people of the South. At the age of 18 I was invited by my sister to stay in San Francisco where I gained working experience as an au pair, was taking classes at Stanford University where I had my first lessons of Spanish.
In Graz I began studying Spanish and English, my favourite course “Spanish and South American music” where I got to know the father of my daughters with whom I recorded two tapes,- “Sephardic music” and “ Children songs and rhymes”. While teaching Spanish and English at High School, I also started taking private classes with vocal coaches. Different methods by various vocal coaches has enriched my singing technique and its range of expression.
In many stays in Spain I also focused on Spanish traditional music, ranging from jota to sevillanas. Also teaching Spanish and English at school was portrayed by workshops by South American artists who could fascinate the students with their music and culture, like e.g. in 1992, in a big festival about “the discovery of South America” which I organized for a school in Krieglach.
Singing in “ARScantica” or playing zurdo in “GRAZSamba”, was interrupted by my journey to South America in 2006 that took me in half a year through various social proyects,- music accompanying me in the streets, at Brazilian carnaval or at polyphonic concerts.
Coming back to Graz with so many impressions, my photo exhibition on Peru and Bolivia was the first step of the proyect “Abrazo a las culturas” – “Embracing cultures” ???where?? I also supported social proyects in Peru and Bolivia.
After two more years in Austria, I finally returned to Argentina where I started teaching German and singing in a choir. With our director, the composer Osvaldo Albornoz, I recorded the first CD,- EVA ARGENTINA, an album that exclusively contains Argentinean folklore.
From 2011 onwards, I again combined working at school and giving concerts on music from South America, mainly focusing “música rioplatense”.
In 2012, production of the CD PASION ARGENTINA,- folklore argentina
2013: CD ABRAZO a las CULTURAS, Mar del Plata- containg music from various South American countries, like huayno, zamba, bolero, cumbia colombiana, candombe
2014: CD OYE como VA. Graz, was released (bossa nova, tango, Latin rock)
From 2015 onwards: mainly working on music from the Andes, Argentina and Uruguay in Austria and Hungary;
collaboration with Jorge Arjona, Hungary/Argentina, and other international musicians
In 2016: 8 months stay in Argentina and Uruguay with many concerts and the production of the CD LOVE EARTH, AMOR TIERRA, produced with ten musicians in Mar del Plata and three musicians in Graz
This CD is a fusion of music from Austria and Argentina with lyrics I translated into German, Austrian dialect and Spanish.
In the concert “Music and poetry in four languages” I was singing in August 2017 in German, Styrian, Spanish and as well Quechua.
At the moment I am in cooperation with musicians from various parts of Argentina, Uruguay and Austria in order to explore genres like “música litore (music from Entre Rios).
Another project aims at focusing on Austrian folklore as well, finding parallels as well as combining it
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