Katka KOŠČOVÁ
Slovak chanson queen (Slovakia) / www.katkakosc.sk
Slovak singer Katarína Koščová was the winner of the first Slovak Super Idol TV show in 2005.
Katarína approaches to creating and interpreting of music maybe different, as it could be expected from the first Slovak Super Idol. She has chosen maybe longer and more difficult music way. Her goal are not short-term "wins", but quality music, which address especially more demanding auditor and behind which can Katarina certainly stand. By hers intimate and original performance of author´s music completed by several assumed jazz standards she creates beautiful, pleasant and chamber atmosphere.
She is an authors of songs inclining to the music styles like jazz, folk, chanson. Katarina writes her lyrics in Slovak and she draws from the Slovak folklore traditions – one of the songs is the jazz variant of the folk song from the Eastern Slovakia – "Na Toryše".
Katarina plays and composes with her band. Her songs can be classified as chansons, jazz, folk, latino, etc.
She plays about 100 concerts a year on clubs, festival stages, private venues or special occasions in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, etc.
So far Katarína produced three solo albums:
Ešte sa nepoznáme (We don´t know each other yet) (2005)
Naboso (Barefooted) (2006)
Nebotrasenie (Heavenquake) (2009)
The singer is being described by the reviewers like this:
"Koščová is the missionary of the home music production for the year 2009, and if every album in every genre was so excellent as Nebotrasenie, than we can look forward to it." Hudba.sk
"Nebotrasenie fascinated me totally by the wide range of songs containing a mixture of chanson, folk, jazz and pop spirit. It is also impressive that the whole album is interwoven by atmosphere, which probably stems from the Slavic influences." Musicampus.de
"Here was expressed the variety of Koscova´s performance where each piece bears inside a little story a piece of life, joy or sorrow." Koktejlkklab.com
Katarína Koščová band:
- Daniel Špiner / piano
- Michal Brandys / acoustic guitar, violin
- Viliam Cicoň / bass guitar, double bass
- Miroslav Szirmai / percussion
