Juliana Venter
JULIANA VENTER Born 08.10.1970 in Pretoria in South Africa. Lives and works in Oslo and internationally. Born and raised in an Afrikaans family in South Africa and Namibia, where she studied opera and piano. From 2000 she lived and worked in London, Scotland, Munich and Berlin. In 2016, she moved to Norway. Speaks and writes fluently: Afrikaans, English and German. Understands, studies and performs both as an actor and singer in Norwegian. Introduction: Juliana Venter is a different artist in that she is primarily a singer who operates in notated and free-improvised music, classical and extended vocal techniques, contemporary music, noise, jazz, baroque music, folk music expressions from Norway, Southern Africa, West Africa , Central Asia, Arabic music, Japanese and Chinese traditional musical expressions as well as rock and pop. She has a very distinctive expression. She is also an actress who operates in both film and theatre. She is a composer for large and original ensembles, and at the same time she makes music for just her own voice or the various regular collaborations she has with various musicians, from a traditional singer / songwriter tradition to modernist and conceptual contemporary music. In addition, she has done countless cross-genre performance concerts and music / theatre performances. ( NB not to be confused with musicals) Operationally trained from 1985-98. She is known for her heartfelt voice, wide palette and her groundbreaking and at times extreme expression. She has been called by the press, “the queen of South African avant-garde“ She was the frontrunner in the music and performance band The Mud Ensemble from Johannesburg, which achieved cult status as pioneers in avant-garde music theatre in South Africa in the 1990s.
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