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Stefanie Schlesinger received her first piano lessons at age 9 and started studying classical singing at age 12. In 2002 she took her finals at the Music Academy Augsburg/Nuremberg as a "diploma singer" after also getting lessons in acting, playing the piano and elocution. Stefanie not only appeared in musical and opera productions but also premiered solo works of contemporary classical music. Further experiences include classical choir singing, gospel workshops with Ronnell Bey and jazz ensemble singing with Holli Ross. For quite a while now, 25-year-old Schlesinger has been feeling at home as a jazz vocalist. Thanks to her technical skills and unusual sensibility for melodies and lyrics, she offers a special magic of her own. Again and again, her fragile and melancholy art of ballad singing has been moving audiences to tears. Because of her thoroughly trained voice and her love for subtle details Stefanie is able to master even difficult and rare songs con bravura and create emotional images of beauty full of warm and tender colors.
For her international debut CD "What Love Is" Stefanie Schlesinger chose a mixture of exquisite standard songs and Brazilian moods. She comes up with her own lyrics for Carla Bley's "Sing Me Softly Of The Blues" and also shows her "classical side" on "Laudate" accompanied by the vibraphone and a string quartet. The musicians involved are select individual players who - in changing line-ups - react with empathy to this young singer's distinctive nuances. The outstanding American-European rhythm trio of Bob Degen, Isla Eckinger and Jarrod Cagwin has already proven its worth on the last recordings by Dusko Goykovich ("In My Dreams", ENJ-9408 2) and Charlie Mariano ("Deep In A Dream", ENJ-9423 2). The full band is completed by Brazilian guitar player Pedro Tagliani and - of course - the sophisticated vibes and marimba player Wolfgang Lackerschmid who also brought in some of his very refined and emotional compositions like "Why Shouldn't You Cry", "I Wish", "Baiao Kathrin", "Watch You Sleepin'" and "Laudate".
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Some other recordings by
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