Osnat Schmool: Women Make Music

For this project, Schmool will write and perform a cappella songs, inspired by Ladino and South African traditions with a company of 6 other performers, creating the backbone to a new music-theatre show for ages 8+ based on Michael Ende’s book MOMO. This new piece, will continue her work as a composer and performer of polyphonic vocal music in the context of new music theatre.

It will also be performed on Sat 14th April 2012 at Greenwich Theatre, London

About Osnat Schmool
Osnat Schmool is a composer, performer and co-founder of Filament Theatre Company. Her work draws on influences from Latin American, African music and dance, Jazz, Folk and Pop and from her own Middle Eastern and Jewish roots. She has worked as a jazz and a cappella singer, with F-ire Collective and The Helen Chadwick Group. Schmool’s approach to both textual development and musical composition is driven by combining experience as a performer with work as a teacher of unaccompanied vocal music. As a performer she has worked at the Gate Theatre, The Purcell Room, Soho Theatre and has performed in each of Filament’s shows which have taken her to venues including St Pancras Station, Tate Bankside, Sadlers Wells, Riverside Studios and The London Transport Museum.

Some notable past work includes Re:Love (Bridewell Theatre 2003), The Thirsty Giraffe (Little Angel Theatre, 2006), Drive Ride Walk (London tours 2009, 2011) and works for the Tête à Tête Opera Festival include One Dark Night and One Small Step. For her latest commission she has written the music and lyrics for Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Little Angel Theatre for Christmas 2011, which will be taken on a national tour in 2012.