Anca Parghel

Instruments : Vocals
Date of birth : Roumanie
Date of death : 05/12/2008 - Roumanie

STUDIES

Music Lyceum of Iassy:

Bel canto and piano, composition, conducting, history of music, contrapunct, orchestration, theory and solfegio
Romanian and universal literature;
Foreign languages: English, French, German, Italian.

Music Conservatory of Iassy:

Bel canto, piano and vocal jazz, Choir and Orchestra conducting, folklore, methodology, musicalforms, jazz improvisation and arrangement;
She graduated with diploma entitled: "CHARLIE PARKER AND THE GENIUS OF IMPROVISATION".

Anca PARGHEL has since then matured into an amazing jazz singer, with incredible technical possibilities. Her voice has a range of 4 octaves and she has developed an extraordinary scat technique. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

From 1981 to 1989: she taught Bel canto, piano, jazz improvisation at the Music Lyceum of Suceava, Romania.

Since 1980 she has been teaching in different countries and workshops:

Belgium (Bruges, Namur "Jazz au Vert, La Marlagne")

Germany (Hannover, Ravensburg, Leipzig Conservatory, Munich, Oldenburg...)

England (Silsoe and Cleolaine Workshops)

Austria (Linz)

Romania (Bucharest Conservatory)

Moldavia (Kisinau)

Since 1984, performances all over Europe in many festivals:
Nürnberg, Leipzig, Varsaw, Ingolstadt, Leverkussen, Vienna, Liège, Tübingen, Munich, Linz, Oupeye, Wiesen, Zagreb, Varna, Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu, Costinesti, Iassy, Lomza, Kisinau, Bratislava...
...and many jazz clubs in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Romania...

Performances and recordings with some of the greatest musicians in the world today:
Billy HART, John ENGELS, Larry CORYELL, Jean-Louis RASSINFOSSE (b), Philip CATHERINE, Eric LEGNINI, Peter HERBOLZHEIMER, Phil ABRAHAM, Richard ROUSSELET, Peter HERTMANS, Mark LEVINE, Gustavo BERGALLI, Claudio RODITI, Pierre VAN DORMAEL,John RUOCCO, John DANKWORTH, Paolo RADONI, Bruno CASTELLUCCI, Thomas STANKO, Hein VAN DE GEYN,Ron VAN ROSSUM, Riccardo DEL FRA, Félix SIMTAINE, Norma WINSTONE, Stéphane GALLAND, Theo DE JONG, Pierre VAIANA, Charles LOOS, Ivan PADUART, Decebal BADILA, Mark GRIFFITH, Jon HENDRIK's band, Klaus IGNATZEK, Rob MADNA, Johnny RADUCANU...

In the '90s, she apperad at many concerts and festivals in Germany (Leipzig), Holland (Amsterdam), Belgium (Liège, Brussels, Frameries)...

She is a gifted artist with various talents and many faces : singer, composer, arranger, teacher, band leader and conductor.

She is currently working on a book with a video tape entitled "Combined vocal technics for jazz and canto-vocal improvisation".

In 1997, she became for a few years the vocal jazz teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music and Leuven's Lemmens Music Conservatory, Belgium.

See also : Klaus IGNATZEK / Anca PARGHEL / Jean-Louis RASSINFOSSE TRIO.

ADDITIONAL DISCOGRAPHY
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1986	LP "Tinerii Danseaza", Electrecord, Romania
1987	CD "Soul, My Secret Place", Blue Flame 40152, Germany
1988	LP "Magic Bird", Electrecord, Romania
1989	CD "Indian Princess", Blue Flame 40262, Germany
1990	CD "Octet Ost", Amadeo 513329-5, Austria
1991	LP "Ron und Tania", Polydor 847749-1, Germany
1992	CD "Air Balloon", Germany
1993	CD "Beautiful Colors", Nabel 4656, Germany
1994	CD "Carpathian Colors", Nabel 4656, Germany
1995	AT "White Christmas Nights", Romania
1996	CD "Good Morning Mister Blues", Romania
1997	CD "Midnight Prayer", Intercont 1517, Romania
1999	CD "Primal Sound", Acoustic Music Records 319.1209.2, Germany