Asparagus&Melon Voices

Asparagus&Melon Choir Voices

The “Asparagus&Melon” Choir was born in summer 2004. It is a choir from the Biel music school directed by singer Fanny Anderegg. From then on, the group focuses on a varied and fresh repertoire, traveling through languages (French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Zulu, etc.) and cultures. Choir concerts are always an opportunity to transmit
to the public his pleasure of singing and his joy of living.

Between jazz and rap, world songs and gospel, bossa and pop, the 16 singers of the group “Asparagus&Melon” approach choral singing from a totally different and explosive angle. A real burst of energy!

Fanny Anderegg, choir director

Singer, author and composer – first studied piano and began organ and singing lessons at the Bienne Conservatory in 1996. After her maturity, she entered a professional singing class at the Montreux Conservatory, Jazz section. There she met Susanne Abbuehl, whom she followed two years later to Basel.

In 2003, she obtained her teaching diploma at the Haute Ecole de Musique, Jazz section, in Basel.
Since then, she has taught singing (EMJB/EMB), directed choirs, was a singing teacher as well as a didactician at the HEMU in Lausanne, runs numerous voice workshops in Switzerland and abroad and regularly composes for theater, orchestras and choirs.

Passionate about non-European cultures, she continues to train, notably with Lakshmi Santra (India) with whom she studies Hindustani singing in depth.

From her incessant travels, Fanny Anderegg brings back memories in the form of songs (La figlia dal Vent); and it was following a walk to Santiago de Compostela that she recorded her second opus: le 8ème jour.

In May 2010, release of a new CD, Home. Inspired by interviews with around thirty people of different ages, cultures and origins, Fanny Anderegg seeks in their roots what constitutes for each of them their belonging, their “homeland”.

In March 2013, creation of the album, HAPAX. The basic quartet expands to accommodate a cello and a trombone.
In 2015, she composed the music and texts (orchestra and choir) for the show “The Giant with Fairy Fingers” – a multidisciplinary cultural mediation project staged by the Théâtre de la Poudrière.
With Vincent Memberz, she created the electro-acoustic duo “L’HORÉE” with whom she released a first EP in 2017 and the album Des Voiles in fall 2019.
In autumn 2018, creation of the show for young audiences “The mysterious knight without a name” for which she notably composed the music.
In 2022, she created the Fanny Anderegg New Quartet (Lionel Friedli, Stefan Aeby) with which she plays throughout Switzerland.

In March 2024, release of the musical book “Utana Ajadi”, an interdisciplinary and intergenerational project for which she is artistic director and composer.

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