Simone Kopmajer

來自奧地利的Simone Kopmajer, 於1981年出生，Simone雖然年輕，卻有着成熟嫵媚的嗓音，實在是得天獨厚的歌手。她的雙親都是音樂老師，父親還是音樂學校的校長，因此Simone八歲就開始接受鋼琴訓練，十二歲就開始在父親領導的大樂團中擔任歌手。   A cool-toned Austrian jazz vocalist, Simone Kopmajer sings in flawless English. She had classical piano lessons starting at the age of eight and at 12 began playing saxophone. She performed in a youth big band and sang regularly in her father's band as a teenager. At 17 she studied with Sheila Jordan, who encouraged her. Kopmajer also studied with Mark Murphy, Jay Clayton, and Michele Hendricks. Since earning a Masters from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria, Kopmajer has toured the Netherlands twice with the Euro Big Band, appeared at European jazz festivals, and recorded three CDs: Moonlight Serenade (for the Japanese Venus label), her best-known set Romance (for Zoho), and her privately released Taking a Chance on Love. Each CD emphasizes her own fresh versions of standards.