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ANNA LAUVERGNAC is a jazz singer, songwriter and educator. She's been part of the European Jazz Scene since 1991

Lauvergnac was born Oct. 1968 in Trieste, Italy, where she received a diploma as a primary school teacher and where she discovered jazz at age 18.

She moved to Austria, in 1987 where she attended the University for Music and Performing arts in Graz, studying with Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy. Andy Bey and Sheila Jordan. She also attended several masterclasses with Reggie Workman and Barry Harris.

Lauvergnac has been the vocalist of the Vienna Art Orchestra from 1999 to 2007, and she has collaborated with musicians such as Fritz Pauer, Andy Bey, Claus Raible, Bojan Zulfikarpasic, Pete Bernstein, Till Martin, John Di Martino, Alegre Correa. She's been leading various projects, including a vocal duo vith Austrian vocalist Monka Trotz that was featured by the Vienna Art Orchestra as an opener for the European Tour "Nine Immortal Non Evergreen For Eric Dolphy" in 1995, a duo with Paolo Conte guitaris Andrea Allione, a trio with bass payer Achim Tang and percussionist Ingrid Oberkanins, a drumless jazz quartet featuring Roland Guggenbichler on piano and organ, Karl Sayer on bass and Bertl Mayer on harp and a drumless trio with pianist Fritz Pauer and bassist Hans Strasser. She's been performing and recording with the Till Martin Quartet and Julia Huelsmann Trio. In 2008 she founded the Anna Lauvergnac International quartet with pianist Claus Raible, bassist Giorgos Antoniou and drummer Howard Curtis. Their first album "Unless there's love" was released in 2012 and nominated for the German Record Critics' Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) in the same year. In 2013 drummer Steve Brown became the new drummer of the band.

DISCOGRAPHY


 * "Unless there's Love"(Alessa Records 2012)
 * "Anna Lauvergnac" (TCB 2001)
 * "You Must Believe in Spring" -Till Martin quartet and Anna Lauvergnac (Petit Paquet  records 2002)
 * "Come Closer" -Julia Huelsmann trio with Anna Lauvergnac (ACT 2004)

with the Vienna Art Orchestra

° "Visionaries and Dreams" (Universal)
 * « Quiet ways: Ballads » -Vienna Art Orchestra (Verve)
 * « American Rhapsody » -Vienna Art Orchestra (BMG)
 * « Duke Ellington Sound of Love » (TCB)
 * « All that Strauss » (TCB)
 * « Centenary journey » (Quinton)
 * « Art&Fun »  (Universal)
 * « Big Band Poesie » (Universal)
 * « Duke Ellington Sound of Love vol.2 » (Universal)
 * « Swing and Affairs » (Universal)
 * " European Visionaries" (Universal)
 * "American Dreams" (Universal)