Cinzia Catania wins JazzCompGraz 2017
Cinzia Catania, a composition student at the Lucerne School of Music, won first prize and the audience award at this year's JazzCompGraz competition.
Born in Aarau in 1988, Cinzia Catania grew up in Lenzburg and discovered her passion for jazz in the Jazzaar project. She studied for a year in Groningen with Dena DeRose, Alex Sipiagin, Don Braden and Mark Gross, among others. When Dena DeRose gave up her teaching position in Groningen, she decided to follow her teacher and mentor to Graz to continue her studies at the Jazz Institute of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
In 2014, she completed her Bachelor's degree in jazz singing with Summa Cum Laude. This was followed by a master's degree in vocal pedagogy at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts with Susanne Abbuehl, among others, which she successfully completed in 2016. She is currently completing her second master's degree in composition, also at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, with Ed Partyka and Dieter Ammann as her main lecturers.
