Karin Schmidt - Bel Canto (2010)

Soprano Karin Schmidt starts her singing studies in Munich, Germany. Then she studied in N.Y. at the Manhattan School of Music and perfects herself in Milano, Italy. Now she lives and works in a mansion on the hills of Oltrepo Pavese.

She is an artist that can work an different sides and be convincing in almost any known musical kind. Her repertory goes from classical opera singing to Stolz and Lehar operettas, up to the top American songwriters and composers such as Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern, Bernstein and the Jazz Masters, especially Duke Ellington. She has, beyond the perfect knowledge of German as mothertongue, a perfect handling of English, Italian and a deep knowledge of the lexical peculiarities of afro-american music.