Jenni Roditi on Clubhouse

Bio

Composer
Creative Leader
Artistic Director
Vocal Improviser

Currently collaborating with Slovakian filmmaker Sara Pozin on music-film ‘LAND MASS’ - “a spontaneous vocal liturgy for the Land”. Previewing early June.

✅Founder of Vocal Tai Chi - ‘moving voice between heaven and earth’
✅ Founder of The Improvisers’ Choir - ‘bend the blend’

📖Forthcoming chapter in Routledge publication (2022) “Women in Musical Leadership - from the 19th Century to the Present Day”. Chapter title contributing: “Beyond Music Workshops - A Composer and a Community.”

💰Funded by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, private sponsors, clients.

Voice work specialist with Nordorff-Robbins music therapy students. London.

🎶 Cross-Genre, Non-Genre

👍 The Ivor’s Academy for Music Creators: Former board member. Current Committee Member.

🙏🏽Buddhist refuge in Tibetan tradition since 1984
🙏🏽discovering my Sephardi roots as a singer

"All music speaks to the unconscious. But rarely do we find that conduit from the unconscious back into musical form. Jenni Roditi, employing a sophisticated use of improvisation, a deep understanding of how listening becomes musical expression and her own innate musicality, makes vocal work that is at once utterly original and completely timeless.
It speaks of what is most ancient in all of us, and, simultaneously, what is most urgent, present and new.” Simon McBurney OBE. Complicité founder, director and performer. March 2018.

Certs: GGSM, MMus. VMT-R.

“Jenni Roditi’s vocal improvisation choir was poignantly reaffirming of the power of the individual voice, and the difference it can make as part of a collective, not least in the creative practice of collaborative music-making, but as a societal allegory.”
Royal Musical Association. March 2019.

Previous works include the “The Descent of Inanna” - and “Siddhartha Spirit Child” - full length chamber operas with non-operatic singers and non-Western instrument duduk featuring alongside classical instruments in Spirit Child. “A cross between Sondheim, Steve Reich” 1992.
“ I don’t know if Spirit Child will melt stony hearts in Beijing, but it certainly melted mine”. 2001.

Both reviews from Stephen Johnson, The Independent.

📍North London, UK