Noa Lachman - Soprano
Noa started her studies in Jerusalem, and came to London over 13 years ago. Has studied with William Hancox for the last few year. In Israel performed a few world premiers of contemporary repertoire, broadcast for TV and Radio, and sung with many famous conductors with the Rinat choir in Israel. In 1998 sang at the invitation of the Israeli Ambassador to the UK at a party in the presence of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and since performed recitals in England, Israel and Europe.
Noa completed her BMus at King’s College London, and her MA in 2010 at Sussex University on the Person Centred Education course, supported by the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace.
Her research project involved considering musicians and their professional development, concentrating on the search for excellence in the study of classical music and understanding the process which artists engage with in order to further their desire to perfect their performance, trying to ‘get better’, trying to achieve a ‘higher level’, ‘aiming at perfection’. Also looking at the process of studying music and how this influences the development of the person.
In 2011 Noa has completed her qualification as an RGRM practitioner. The RGRM Method is multisensory using: audio, visual, tactile and kinetic energy with rhythm, music and sound/movement codes. The RGRM Method has been implemented with health care and rehabilitation since 1993 in Sweden. This method can be used to help people with brain injuries, diseases of the central nervous system as well as use with healthy brains.
SONGS GET UNDER THE SKIN.
September 2008, Noa performed a successful concert in Germany with the pianist William Hancox and in November 2010 in Tunbridge Wells. UK.
Laazten, Germany 6 September 2008
110 LISTENERS WITNESS THE PREMIERE OF "LYRIK AGAINST FORGETTING" AT THE COPTHORNE HOTEL. By Johannes Dorndorf
"This was a concert that penetrated deep into the soul: last Thursday evening Noa Lachman and William Hancox gave the first performance of poems from the Collection "Lyrik against Forgetting".
"Laatzen. Row after row had to be added to the auditorium – as many of the audience had obviously made last-minute decisions to attend the event. And that was what the concert was: an event indeed. The theme of the evening was anything but easy. With the "Series 70" events the town of Laatzen commemorated the persecution of Jews during the third Reich. As the centre piece of the concert were four songs to poems by Jews who had died in concentration camps. The challenge taken up by Lachman and Hancox was to strike a balance between the beauty of the music and the suffering hidden beneath the text. They succeeded: with a voice at times tender, other times lamenting, but always moving, the Israeli-born singer Noa Lachman performed these works. She was supported with great lightness of touch at the piano by William Hancox. The literary scientist Michael Moll spoke about the genesis of setting music to the poems by the composer Gregers Brinch. The other works in the program were largely by Jewish composers. Jürgen Gansäuer, the host of the evening, praised the Series of events which end with the laying of named cobble stones in Gleidingen: "That we could hear such a concert as this after all that has happened between Jews and Germans is a miracle" said Gansäuer".
Press here to hear Noa sing Liu from Turandot by Puccini.
Noa Lachman -Drawing by Danoush Lachman
NOA LACHMAN - FULL CV
Born in Israel, now a UK citizen
Languages: fluent English, Hebrew, good German
Performance Experience
2011-2010 concerts in the UK including Lime Park concerts
2008 Concerts in Germany, Laatzen (see above), Israel and the UK.
2005-2008 concerts in London and Sussex including St. Martin in the Fields, London
2000-2004 stopped singing in public to have a child
1998-2000 gave concerts in London, Liverpool, Eastbourne, Brighton and Bournemouth, UK.
1998 Sang at the London International Jewish Music Festival, the Place Theatre, London
This concert was recorded to the National Sound Archive, London Recorded Ladino songs for Women’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
1995 London, College production, La Speranza (Orpheo)
1994 Jerusalem Theatre, Israel, Papagena
1989-1992 Sang in the Israel National Choir "Rinat" and the "Cameran Singers" under conductors: Stanley Sperber, Zubin Mehta, James Levine and Daniel Barenboim. Performed and recorded for the Israeli National Radio and Television. Appeared in the world premier of music by A. Erlich and M. Shenhave.
Voice-over
Worked for Success on Hold and Inflight Productions during the last 8 years, recording messages in Hebrew including the official British Airways message in their offices in Israel, KLM in flight messages and others.
Reviews:
In “The Times” of the 13th November 1995: "Noa Lachman as "Hope" (in Monteverdi’s Orpheo)...a vibrant Soprano of potential..."
In the "Jerusalem Post" of the 1st August 1989: "Noa Lachman proved herself a budding contemporary music specialist".
Studies:
2003 - Student of William Hancox, London
1997-2000 Iris Dell’Acqua, Hazel Wood, London. Coaching withTina Ruta and Martin Isepp
1996-97 Trinity College of Music, London, Post Graduate Course
1995 BMus, King’s College London. Studied with Esther Salaman (Awarded a 1st for the final singing recital)
1994 Masterclasses in London and Vienna with Ileana Cotrubas.
1993 Part time courses at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
1992 Summer course at the Mayer Lismann Opera Centre and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
1991 Took part in the OSVA (Ottawa Summer Vocal Academy) University of Ottawa, Canada, studied there with Ingemar Korjus.
1988-91 Jerusalem Music Academy, Hebrew University
1987 Studied in Israel at the Tel Aviv University music courses and in The School for Choir Singing, Tel-Aviv.