·MUSICAL THEATRICAL VOCAL BIOGRAPHY (ENGLISH)

·MUSICAL THEATRICAL VOCAL BIOGRAPHY

MUSIC, THEATRE AND DUBBING

Name: Juana Rodríguez Larraín
Instrument: Voice
Register: Lyric Soprano
Place of birth: Rome-Italy
Nacionality: Chilean
E-mail: estrejazz@yahoo.com
Blog: www.estrejazz.blogspot.com



Short resume of MUSICAL studies:

Begins studying modern singing at the age of 8 at the ¨Academia de Canto de Alicia Puccio¨Academy; simultaneously she takes guitar and flute classes at the ¨Escuela Moderna de Música¨ school in Santiago de Chile.
When 12 she suspends her singing and technical vocal classes, due to the change of her voice and the growth of her vocal organs, and takes advantage in doing an intensive singing training course and modern repertory without vocal technique, in Ciudad de México with Alejandra Cruz, teacher of big mexican musicians.
She goes back to studies at the age of 13 at the ¨Escuela de Música Projazz¨school. From this point she begins her vocal carrer. Simultaneously after 4 years of studies at the ¨Projazz¨school, she does lyrical singing classes with the Soprano Patricia Herrera.
At the age of 17, after finishing secondary school, she begins her carrer with formal and professional studies,at the ¨Escuela Moderna de Música¨school of Santiago, where she does modern singing classes, directed audition, course of latinamerican music, musical language, piano, rythm and tuning. At the same time she continues with the classical studies with Soprano Patricia Herrera accompanied by pianist.
After 5 years of studies and repertory with professor Herrera, she does classical singing classes with the tenor Jose Quilapi, and modern singing classes with Arlette Jequier, the singer of the jazz-fusion chilean group¨Fulano¨.
She attends theatrical classes as well with the interpretation professor Marcela Schultz, making part of a Company named ¨Las Prímulas¨.

During 1999 she intensively travels around Europe making contacts and musical and artistic activities.
After this experience, in 2000 she decides to settle in Barcelona-Spain in order to enforce her musical studies.

The first years in Barcelona she does studies of musical refinement at two schools.
One classical , the ¨Escuela de Música Juan Pedro Carrero¨ school, where she studies and obtaines a superior degree in lyrical singing with the Soprano professor María Luz Martínez and repertory with the modern singer, composer and pianist Leonardo Botaiolli.

For many years she was a pupil of lyrical professor, Italian Micaela Giorgianni and of modern singing professor, Susan Dunk, form Newyork.
Simultaneously, at the jazz school¨Escuela de Jazz Taller de Músics¨ of Barcelona,she studies piano, drums and musical language. Besides she studies jazz double bass with professor Nuno Torres.

Outside the musical territory she is Actress of MOVIES DUBBING.


Short résumé of DUBBING studies:

TRAINING COURSES

- Vocal imitations for Dubbing.

- Tipology of characters of the people:

·A Drunk
·A Sensual
·A Normal
·A Kid
·A Sexy
·A Macho
·A Baby
·A Posh
·A Dummy
etc.....

-Languages accents for dubbing:

·Spanish-Chilean
·Spanish-Mexican
·Spanish-Argentinian
·Spanish-English
·Spanish-French

-Dubbing Training course ,at the ¨Escuela de Doblaje y Cine¨school of Santiago de Chile.


Concerning Musical, Theatrical and Vocal activities she partecipated in shows and projects such as:

-Singing performing, at the
Los Leones de Santiago theatre with a program of modern repertory.

-Vocal recordings for TV commercials and dubbing of voices.

-Voice dubbings for Charlie Brown cartoons.

-Theatre performings with the theatrical Company ¨PRIMULAS¨

PLAYS:

¨Dos Locos Experimentos y Cierta Muñeca¨ (Two crazy experiments and a kind of a doll)

¨Si te contara lo que me paso en el Sur¨(If I told you what happenned in the south)

¨El Malabarista¨(The juggler)

¨Wahhh..... genial¨(Wow, that’s great)

-Monologues with the chilean Actor Paolo Conti.

-Performings at a Jazz club of Chile with a groupe called Grupo Azulado. Jazz Repertoire.

-Concerts for Cd launching;
¨Que tu ser sea bienvenido al mundo¨(Be welcome on earth) by Ramuntcho Matta. Museum of Bellas Artes of
Santiago,with the jazz-fusion group of Pedro Greene Orrego.

-Several concerts with jazz quintets in various concert halls of Spain; Jamboree, Harlem Jazz, Los Tarantos..etc

-Winner of the FONDART price of MUSIC in Chile,year 2006

-Vocal trainer, professor of modern and clasical singing, of singers, musicians, actors, poets ,professors, announcer, enthusiasts.

-Professor of actors for vocal technique, phonobreathing, vocal coordination,diction, vocal lean, capacity, vocal articulation, lean, voice emission , vocal colocation, resonance, projections of speaking sound,volume and intensity, interpretation of sound in speaking.

- She realized several musical projects in computing, edition and composition for producers in Movies and Music.

-Collaborations with the Producers "Over Film", making music for documentaries and theatrical projects, as well as for short films.

-Vocal recordings in Electronical Music with Dj Elastico.


Developed projects:

In june of 2006, launches her first Jazz production "Speak Low" ,recorded at the sudios of Albert Moraleda and edited under same brand , acompanied by great musicians; Joan Chamorro at Baritone sax, Agata Palencia at Piano, Drums with Alberto Cabello , and Double bass with Nuno Torres.


In the record you can listen at jzz standards such as "Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk, "My Romance"by Richard Rodgers or "All of me" by Seymour Simons, as well as Bossa nova themes such as"Desafinado" by Antonio Carlos Jobim and "Samba triste" by Baden Powell.

In september of 2006, she travels to New York in order to promote it and to continue increasing her artistical carreer.


Her vocation is to go on developing her carreer as a Soprano lyrical singer and modern Jazz singer, keeping clearly in mind the difference between both techniques and continuing on both paths simultaneously, as she has the capacities, knowwledge and sufficient conditions to do it.
She has passion and enough enthusiasm to go on building, cleaning and developing her instrument; the voice, to sing and keep on producing different projects, improving her sound and scene interpretation.