Biography
Acclaimed for her extraordinary voice and creative vision, Teodora Brody is an award-winning vocalist whose artistry encompasses jazz, classical, world music – and beyond. Over the last 25 years, Teodora has forged a singular path through the international music scene.
Known to many music fans for her pioneering fusion of jazz music with her native Romania’s improvisatory folk singing tradition Doina, Teodora is winning new audiences with her classical inspired programmes and her completely improvised concerts.
“Teodora Brody is a vocalist who straddles jazz, popular and Classical with all that multi-genre virtuosity that brings with it. In a real sense, she brings the Enescu even closer to its Romanian roots.’’ Fanfare
Teodora initially trained in classical jazz and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s singing with legendary jazz pianist Johnny Răducanu.
Always searching for new musical territories to explore, Teodora has performed alongside musicians including Stanley Jordan, Theodosii Spassov, Lars Danielsson, Les Paul, Curtis Fuller, Eric Legnini, Phillippe Duchemin, Guido Manusardi, Benny Rietveld, Daniele di Bonaventura, Ion Baciu and Al Copley.
On the world stage, Teodora has regularly appeared at prestigious European jazz festivals including Montreux, Lugano and Marciac, and in the US she has performed at the Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, US Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and at legendary clubs including Iridium New York and Blues Alley in Washington D.C.
In 2004 the American government named Teodora a Romanian Cultural Ambassador to the USA, and in both 2007 and 2008 Teodora was awarded the prize for ‘Best International Jazz Contribution by a Romanian Artist’ by the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company.
In recent years Teodora’s intrepid musical imagination has taken her into new territory, exploring classical music from an entirely fresh perspective, with original vocal renditions of masterpieces by the likes of Beethoven, Bach, Enescu and Bartók. She has performed this programme with the London Symphony Orchestra in London in 2024 and with the Manchester Camerata at the George Enescu Festival in 2023.
In 2019 ‘From Classical to Jazz’ was awarded ‘Project of the Year’ at the Romanian Jazz Awards Gala and Teodora was named ‘Musician of the Year’ for the second year in a row.
With the London Symphony Orchestra she also recorded her classical programme for Signum Classics in an album, Rhapsody, that was released to worldwide praise.
In 2024 Teodora toured North America and Europe, with her groundbreaking inter-disciplinary collaborations that encompass symphony orchestras, multi-instrument ensembles and her own quartet of vocals, guitar, cello and Brazilian percussion. The tour included performances in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Among the projects created by Teodora is her Impromptu seasons a regular series of entirely improvised concerts performed with special guests across Europe and North America, including her frequent collaborator, jazz legend Stanley Jordan, for a landmark performance at Carnegie Hall in New York.
This artist is always creating and bringing her singular talent to audiences around the world and the future will bring further exciting inter-disciplinary collaborations for her.
