Winner of the 1993 Sibiu Jazz Festival Award for Best Debut, Teodora is considered one of the most important Jazz musicians in Romania ( 2004- The Excellence prize for the most important contribution in Jazz). She managed to switch from the field of Mathematics (field in which she graduated with Honors in 1991) to a successful career in Jazz. Between 1993 and 2004 she participated in numerous concerts and festivals in Romania, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. She performed with internationally acclaimed stars such as Curtis Feller, Les Paul, Stanley Jordan, Johnny Griffin, Rick Condit, Johnny Raducanu, Guido Manusardi, Al Copley and Philippe Duchemin. Endowed with a rare musical sensitivity, a deep, rich and warm contralto voice and an exceptional emotional intelligence, she has established herself as one of the brightest stars of Romanian vocal Jazz. Teodora’s voice is laden with dramatic inflexions and unexpected tenderness. Teodora’s distinctive trait is her natural use of the scat technique, her inborn swing as well as her joy of singing that bursts out on the stage. After her latest US tour she has quite often been described as “a new Ella Fitzgerald”. She is among the few female singers whom, due to her musical spontaneity, one completely discovers only by listening to her live singing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.