Quirina Lechmann
Quirina Lechmann seeks spontaneity and risk, experimenting at the interface of voice, sound and unpredictability.
Quirina Lechmann began her classical singing studies at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp while studying English, German and Dutch at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Since then she has realized a number of projects and concerts at home and abroad.
In addition to singing, Quirina Lechmann is increasingly devoting herself to composition as well as cross-genre and cross-media installations and performances.
In the performance toccata con sordino, Quirina Lechmann explores Gianin Conrad’s exhibition and reacts to it. She creates new relationships between sculpture and performance, between the visual and metaphysical aspects of things.
Quirina has worked with various singers and teachers: KS Eva Randová, Sumi Jo, Jenny Drivala, Anne Williams-King, Nuccia Focile, Inessa Galante, Stephanie Friede, Luciana Serra, Angel Joy Blue, Petra Lang, Adrian Baianu and others.
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Curriculum vitae
2023 Artist Diploma, Vinceró Academy, Vocal International Certification Online 2015
2015 Creative Writing, University of Cambridge, England
2014 Higher Teaching Diploma: English and DaF, University of Antwerp
2014 Master of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics, University of Antwerp
2012 Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Linguistics: English and German,
2007-2008 Studied classical singing at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, class of Stephanie Friede
2006 Music baccalaureate at the Gymnasium Kloster Disentis
Prizes and acquisitions in public collections
2023 Acquisition of video for the MErode art collection, Ronse, Belgium
2023 Studio Grant for an artist’s studio in Rome, Canton of Graubünden, with Gianin Conrad
2022 Studio Grant for an artist’s studio in Belgrade, City of Chur
2022 Studio Grant for an artist’s studio at Villa Renata, Basel
2021 Studio Grant from 360 of Opera for the Vinceró Academy, New York
2018 Small Projects Prize, Canton of Graubünden
Own productions
2023 Ende Gelände, opera, former KIBAG site, Pulvermühlestr. 58, Chur
2023 Hasi Farinelli, music theater with own compositions
2022 Dinner for a Diva, music theater after Dinner for One (filmed in 2020 due to Corona, performed in 2022)
2022 E-O, opera with electric guitar, with Andi Schnoz, Visarte Switzerland delegates’ meeting, and Kulturraumnetzwerk Chur
2022 The fog lifts and everything becomes clear as day, concert series with harp Since
2021 Scala Trun, art and music space in Trun
2019 Miu Mozart, German Mozart arias in Romansh
2019 Karton Age, music theater/performance with AntiPro, Schedhalle Frauenfeld 2018 Musik-Pick-Nick, real-life music theater in the forest
2016-18 Salon Bruch Stein, experimental cultural space, between art, music and theater, Chur
Exhibitions and art performances
2023 Ende Gelände, art interventions, group exhibition, former KIBAG site, Pulvermühlestr. 58, Chur
2023 Daily Maintenance, art performance at the Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Moving Mountains, Scala Trun, group exhibition at the Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 How to Move Mountains, Redaktion Luzern, group exhibition at the Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Imaginary Mountains, art performance, Ballroom Gallery Brussels
2022 Hanging, art performance, Scala Trun
2021 Screech, art performance with Albert Mayr, Scala Trun
2021 Beta-Vision, art performance, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp Art Weekend
2020 The thing with beauty, art performance and video; sculpture by Gianin Conrad, Intra Muros Art Festival, Winterthur
2018 Only an ocean of impulses, art performance, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz
