Daniela Schächter

Pianist, Vocalist, Composer and Arranger

Awards and Reviews

 

        ·     Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano competition 2005 winner. 

  • Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead 2002 Competition winner.

        ·    Sister in Jazz Competition winner, 2002: performed at IAJE Conference in January 2002.

        ·     Appeared in Jazziz of July magazine in the collector’s CD featuring today’s finest female artists, August 2001.

        ·      Liberace Scholarship from Berklee College of Music, April 2001.

        ·      Terri Lyne Carrington Scholarship, October 2000.

        ·       Berklee College of Music’s Scholarship at Umbria Jazz Clinics, 1998.

        ·        Won “Tindari ‘93 Prize” for the best jazz duo with her brother Davide Schächter, summer 1993.

    

  "...Emerges jazz vocalist Daniela Schaechter and her strong voice, her tight jazz quintet and her fertile arranging prowess. Suffice it to say Daniela is an outstanding, talented & imaginative leader, jazz vocalist, writer and producer. She's a killer!"

(George W. Carroll - www.ejazz.com)

  " The Italian-born Schächter never seemed to run out of ideas. Often unfurling long, cascading runs, she balanced fluid improvisations with a soulful touch, adding subtle harmonic accents here and there…”

(Mike Joyce – The Washington Post)

  “She got a solo piano spot in John Danksworth’s chart on which she was so sweet and so gentle and so hip that she made Bill Evans sound like Little Richard…”

(Tony Gieske)

  “Daniela Schächter is one of the Umbria Jazz Clinics success stories…”

(Mitchell Feldman – Down Beat)

  “When Composer and pianist Daniela Schächter works on her music she focuses on matters that go beyond scales and chords…”

(Rob Hochschild – Berklee Editor)

  “In her CD ‘Quintet’ we car hear that in her voice, in her intense interpretation, in her clean sound there is an ascending talent. She might be the new Diana Krall…”

(Sergio Di Giacomo – La Gazzetta del Sud)