VietNamNet Bridge - The German jazz star Michael Schiefel is performing solo in the courtyard of Goethe Institut Hanoi, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, at 8pm on May 21.

Michael Schiefel is an exception, not only in the German jazz scene but also on stage. In his solo performances, he is an entertainer who is not afraid to make serious art and to smile while doing so.

As a singer, he experiments with his distinctive bright and sometimes smoky voice with electronic loop devices, as if he is singing in a choir made up solely of himself.

At the show in Hanoi, he will present songs from his album “My Home Is My Tent”. These idiosyncratic songs show him as a visionary thinker who does not submit to normal structures but is constantly breaking new ground, resulting in expressive acoustic images.

Born in 1970 in Münster, Michael Schiefel moved to Berlin in the early nineties to immerse himself in the local jazz scene. There he trained as a jazz singer, graduating from the University of the Arts.

Since 2001, he has been a professor of jazz singing at the Weimar Academy of Music. As early as 1997, his first solo album “Invisible Loop” earned praise from audiences and the press.

He has performed at festivals and tours through Europe, the US, Africa and the Middle East. Schiefel was seen and heard in Vietnam first in 2010 as a singer with the jazz ensemble Thärichens Tentett.

The show has free admission.

T. Van