Hello
I'm Chiara Schönfeld. As a singer and composer, I'm driven by the desire to explore emotional experiences through music and to tell stories that foster understanding and connection (with others and with oneself). This idea is central to the music and lyrics of ITAKIRY.
Musical community and diversity are important to me, and I enjoy being involved in various projects.
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«[…] the soothing voice of Schönfeld is prominent in all works. Not does she just sing in the conventional way; she uses her voice as an instrument, and mixes her rich melodies with intense improvised passages.»
— Robin Boer for ProgJazz.nl | 09.04.23
«[…] Schönfeld - blessed with a beautiful voice - has a very supple flexible vocal style that could easily be called fluid; in any case, she is as agile as water. Schönfeld admirably stays miles away from any kind of pathos and it is precisely this unadorned pure way of singing that lets her get close to the listener and thus convey the underlying emotion of the songs. And then she also writes beautiful songs that again have something very pure and sincere. […] Usually, Schönfeld keeps it small, but at times she dares to let herself go completely. At those moments, her singing gets something raw, like Björk’s, but at the same time it remains intimate in a way that reminds of Dutch singer Sanne Rambags.»
— Mischa Andriessen for Trouw - Muziek van de week | 14.03.23
«Schönfeld has a crystal-clear voice and sings with the purity of spring water. It is a joy to hear such a beautiful voice.»
— Tom Beetz for JazzFlits | 27.02.23
Radio broadcast on the ITAKIRY debut album at Radio SRF2 Kultur: «New talent in Switzerland […]» — Jazz und World aktuell | 04.10.2022Graduate Portrait Hochschule Luzern: Luzerner Zeitung | 10/03/2020
"Jazz and pop singer Chiara Schoenfeld provides supple vocal lines and combines with Gianluigi Trovesi's intense saxophone sound in the second part to create a dreamlike duet."
- Der Bund via 'Jazziah - Handel's Messiah reloaded' | 05/22/2018 -
2025: Rather Waves Than Lines | EP by ITAKIRY
2023: Parallel | EP by immi
2022: ITAKIRY | Album by ITAKIRY
2020: Shadows of Ourselves | EP by ITAKIRY
2020: Unknown Desire | Single by ITAKIRY
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2021 — 2023: Master of Arts in Music Education, Jazz Vocals | Lucerne School of Music
2018 — 2020: Master of Arts in Music, Major Performance Jazz Vocals & Minor Music Theater | Lucerne School of Music
2015 - 2018: Bachelor of Arts in Music, Jazz Singing | Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Gesangsstudium u.a. bei Kristin Berardi, Sarah Büchi, Susanne Abbuehl, Lauren Newton und Lauren Kinsella.
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„Schönfeld stays admirably far away from any form of pathos; it is precisely this unadorned, pure way of singing that allows her to get close to the listener and convey the underlying emotion of the songs. [...] beautiful songs that again have something very pure and sincere about them.“