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Anna Clementi, swedish-italian, has spent her life between Stockholm, Berlin and Rome. In Rome she studied flute, acting and singing. In 1986 she moved to Berlin where she had the dazzling encounter with Dieter Schnebel, (with whom she has been collaborating in the ensemble «Die Maulwerker» for several years) at the Hochschule der Künste. She put a special focus on the vocal and theatrical repertoire of John Cage and devoted herself mainly to research the possibility of combining song, word, gesture and theater. Her repertoire moves between contemporary music, electro-acoustics, musical theater and club music. Anna Clementi has participated in many festivals around the world and performed several premieres. The collaboration with composers is something frequent and familiar to her, the common work allows her to let her peculiarities as interpreter emerge. She doesn't define herself a singer (nor vocalist), but rather an actress of the voice. This felicitous definition gives space for her chameleon-like variety and her interest in combining singing, improvisation, word, gesture and theater, all measured, designed, structured; lymph engine for externalizing the combination of abstraction and emotion which constantly appears in her work. A combination sought for long time through a sinuous formative path: flute first, then acting, contemporary dance, contact improvisation. An adolescence spent between Cage, Hollaender and Buscaglione, Hammond, and Schoenberg, with a keen eye for historical icons such as Pina Bausch and Cathy Berberian. Anna Clementi loves playfulness, curiosity, humor, lightness (if possible); always searching for new sounds through the
