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Lloica Czackis was born in 1973
in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Argentinian parents. Growing up in Venezuela, she
became acquainted with the Latin American folk musical traditions, playing
and singing it in her musical family. She then studied singing with Ana Sirulnik and choral conducting at the Argentine Catholic University in
Buenos Aires and completed her training at the Guildhall School of Music &
Drama in London with Vera Rosza and David Pollard, supported by a British
Council/Fondo Nacional de la Artes scholarship.
A versatile artist, Lloica
Czackis performs music from the Renaissance to the avant-garde and from folk
to tango, including oratorio, opera, and works written especially for her.
She has appeared in the main European festivals of contemporary music with
the New London Chamber Choir, also as a soloist. In 2001 she toured the USA
in London City Opera’s production of Carmen. She has given recitals
and solo performances, in Argentina, at the Salón Dorado of the Buenos Aires
Town Hall, Teatro Colón, La Scala de San Telmo and the Centro Cultural Recoleta; in the UK, at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Rosslyn Hill Unitarian
Chapel, the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House, Fairfield Halls,
Lauderdale House, Bolivar Hall, Canning House, The Spitz and Guilford
Cathedral; and also in Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris and Vienna.
Since 1999 Lloica has conceived
and performed programmes on Latin American and European 20th
Century music, tango, Yiddish song and cabaret. Her Millennium Award-winning
show
Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango features
songs from European ghettos and concentration camps and from the Yiddish
Theatre in Buenos Aires and New York. With arrangements by the renowned
composer Gustavo Beytelmann, also on piano, and joined by Juan Lucas
Aisemberg on viola, Tangele was premičred on 9 November 2002 at The Spitz,
in the East End of London, and has since appeared in numerous venues and
international festivals across Europe.
In 2003 she
performed with the international Yiddish music specialist and pianist Zalmen
Mlotek in the launch of the International Forum for Yiddish Culture in
London, and also as an actress and singer in the theatre play Davka
by Jane Liddell-King, at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge, UK. She also
premičred
Terezín Karussell, a recital of art and
cabaret songs by Terezín composers written before and in the ghetto, with
David Bloch on piano, at the Brundibár Festival in Manchester in September
2003. She later repeated this programme with pianists Miriam Brickman and
Andrew Quartermain in London and at the 2004 Leamington Festival, UK.
In addition
to her musical career, Lloica researches the Yiddish tango. She has
presented
her work in the UK magazine Jewish Quarterly
(Vol. 50 No. 1 (189) Spring
2003), in the book Recreando la Cultura Judeoargentina/2- Literatura y
Artes Plásticas (Editorial Milá, Buenos Aires, 2004)
and in illustrated lectures across the UK, at Limmud, Davar, Klezmer in
Sheffield, the Council of Christians and Jews, the Holocaust Survivors'
Centre, the Bosnian Jewish Refugee Centre, the Institute of Latin American
Studies and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London. She has also written articles on Argentine Jewish musicians. Lloica
is the 2004/5 Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellow at the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research and completed a DEA
(MPhil) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
in Paris, in 2005.
Her latest CD,
"Le Grand Tango", with he UK-based group "El Ultimo Tango", is dedicated to
the music of Astor Piazzolla and British tango composers. |
