Scharmien Zandi is a composer, musician, and performer working in music, theatre, opera, and interdisciplinary sound art. She also produces music for film, theatre, and live performances, blending acoustic and electronic elements. She collaborates internationally in theatre, film, and with bands such as CADÛ, Caravan of LUV, and ARAMBOA. Trained in classical singing (soprano), her vocal range spans from improvisation to expressive screams. She plays piano, guitar, synthesizer, flute, and the Kurdish daf.
Her works have been presented at venues such as MusikTheater an der Wien, Schauspielhaus Wien, and Longfu Theater in Beijing. In 2020, she received the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for AMOUR FOU (Best Off-Production), and in 2022, the Start Scholarship for Music and Performing Arts. Her current focus lies in AI-assisted composition and new operatic formats – Opernperformances.For inquiries and collaborations, please contact: mgmt.scharmien@gmail.com
Inspired by music, multimedia art and storytelling, Scharmien is constantly searching for hidden sound spaces to dissolve the boundaries between reality and imagination. The show invite the audience to fully experience the here and now. What does it mean to be real, present, and truly live. Her One-Woman-Band is a music performance that explores the meaning of being live in an increasingly digitized and media-driven world.
The Free Republic of Vienna is getting its own band: Caravan of LUV. In the concert performance series HEALING – situated between pop culture and healing rituals – by Elia Rediger & int int irrit, the collective performs every Thursday at the House of the Republic, promising nothing less than universal healing.
CADÛ is a heavy trip rock formation hailing from Vienna, where the cult of magic is celebrated and enlivened with ecstatic dances. They released 2019 the debut album STEELSTREET and played more than 30 Shows all over Europe (e.g. Germany, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, Austria). On Friday 13, 2023 they released their 2nd album PSYCHOTIC PARADE (Stonefree Records.)
AMOUR FOU
AMOUR FOU is an award winning avantgarde-chanson-show between music, literature, artificial intelligence and theater and shows her strong artistic skill of singer-songwriting. For this show she was awarded for the Austrian Music Theater Award 2020 for ‚Best Off-Production‚ and toured through China, Europe and the USA.
OPERNPERFORMANCE
2017 she presents her first Opernperfromance REDLINE in Beijing at the Austrian Clutural Forum. DIONE 2021 at the Theater Arche in Vienna. Since that she creates Opernperfromances like SUPERZERO, BABY at Musiktheater an der Wien or ANKOMMEN at Tiroler Landestheater.
PALOMA NEGRA
Since 2013 she has been playing together with Daniel Schneeberger (guitar) as an acoustic dynamic duo – PALOMA NEGRA. They play their own compositions and interpret songs from the years 1960-2023 with voice and guitar and toured various European countries.
MISTHAUFEN
With Misthaufen – a famous Austrian ensemble of the 70s, which worked a lot with the songwriter Wolf Biermann – she composed and played at the reunion in 2015 at Radio Kulturhaus Ö1. Since then, she has been a member of this formation and composes new songs in Austrian dialect for the formation
2025 Die Realen Geister Komposition, Theatermusik // Schauspielhause Wien
2024 Ankommen musikal. Leitung, Komposition Live Music,Sounddesign // Tiroler Landestheater
2023 Bühnenbeschimpfung Komposition Live Music, Sounddesign // Schauspielhaus Wien
2022 Armenia Komposition Theme Music „Sweet Life“ // Shortfilm by Jaquelina Rauter
2022 Wir alle für immer Zusammen Komposition / Jana Vetter // Landestheater NÖ, AT
2021 Dione all elements Opernperformance / iAKW // Theater Arche, AT
2020 Amour Fou Avantgarde-Chanson Show / Online Show // ACFNY, USA
2019 CADÛ Steelstreet Tour, EU
2019 Die Physiker Theaterkomposition / Ensemble Delphin // Dschungel Wien, Theater Spielraum,
2018 Headline – Dione Musiktheater / iAKW // Kunsttankstelle Wien, AT
2017 Andrea Bocelli Chor Sopran // Messegelände Graz, Tips Arena Linz, AT
2017 Howling Dogs Theaterkomposition / Raimund Rosarius // Longfu Theater Peking, CN
2017 Redline – Dione Musiktheater / Raimund Rosarius // ACF Peking, CN
2017 Taikonaut Lilli Komposition / Jochen Settili // 798 Art District Peking, CN
2017 Amour Fou Avantgarde-Chanson Show // Tour, CN
2016 Niemandsland Theaterkomposition / Ensemble Delphin // Theater Arche Wien, AT
2016 Paloma Negra Duo // Tour, AT
2015 Schimmern… Sopran / Larisa Vrhunc with Kairos Quartett // Solitär Salzburg, AT
2015 Misthaufen Musikerin // Radio Kulturhaus Ö1 Wien AT
2013 Rage Cage Konzert // Caffe Vivaldi NYC, US
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