Scharmien Zandi works as a professional composer and musician for theaters, operas and with various Musician for Live-Shows. She has a strong singer – songwriting skill and wrote theme songs for movies
She worked with Schauspielhaus Wien, Musiktheater an der Wien, Landestheater Niederösterreich, Tiroler Landestheater und Longfu Theater in Beijing.
She studied classical vocal (soprano), does screams & improvisation with the voice and is a multinstrumentalist (piano, guitar, synthesizer, transverse flute, kurdish daf).
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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Her Avangarde-Chanson AMOUR FOU shows her strong artistic skill of singer-songwriting and inspires audiences in China, Europe and the USA. For this show she was awarded for the Austrian Music Theater Award 2020 for ‚Best Off-Production‚
With her Band CADÛ she released 2019 the debut album STEELSTREET and played more than 30 Shows all over Europe (e.g. Germany, Hungary, Romania, Swisserland, Austria). On Friday 13, 2023 they released their 2nd album PSYCHOTIC PARADE (Stonefree Records)
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 1960-2023 with voice and guitar.
She presents her first Opernperfromance 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.
With Misthaufen – an famouse Austrian ensemble of the 70’s – she compose and played on stage at the Radio Kulturhaus Ö1 at their reunion 2015, since then she has been a member of this formation and compose some new songs for the formation.
She also creates sounddesigns for videos, exhibitions and radioplay.
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