Education and Training
Claudia Graziadei began her musical studies in 2009, focusing on jazz vocals at the Musikschule Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, where she trained until 2012. She continued her education at the Conservatorio B. Marcello in Venice, graduating in 2015 under the guidance of soprano Sabina Meyer. In February 2021, she earned her Master’s degree (Biennio) in Renaissance and Baroque Singing with Gemma Bertagnolli at the Conservatorio A. Pedrollo in Vicenza.
Early Music Performance
In the field of early music, she has participated in three Baroque opera productions at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. Her roles include Cupid in Henry Purcell’s King Arthur, the choruses of L’Orfeo, and the role of Amore in the Prologue of Claudio Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno di Ulisse in patria, working with director Cristina Deda Colonna, mezzo-soprano Marina De Liso, and baritone Furio Zanasi.
Since 2017, she has been a soloist with the Cappella Marciana at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. From 2017 to 2019, she performed with the Schola San Rocco in Vicenza, directed by Francesco Erle. In July 2024, she joined the Vocal Academy of the Capella de Ministrers in Valencia. From May to September 2025, she performed as a soloist for the Baroque ensemble Interpreti Veneziani at the Church of the Pietà in Venice.
Contemporary Music and Performance Art
In the contemporary scene, she has worked as a solo singer for Teatro Malibran (Venice) and Teatro Mario Dal Monaco (Treviso) in four operatic productions by composers Luca Mosca and Giovanni Mancuso.
From May to October 2019, she performed at the 58th Venice Art Biennale in the Lithuanian Pavilion (winner of the Golden Lion) for the opera-performance Sun & Sea (Marina) by Lina Lapelyte, Rugile Barzdziukaite, and Vaiva Grainyte. She is currently part of the cast for the opera’s ongoing world tour.
In 2021, she won the 6th edition of the Michiko Hirayama Scholarship for contemporary vocals, sponsored by the Fondazione Isabella Scelsi. On this occasion, she presented the recital Aurora, inspired by the music of Scelsi, which she composed and performed herself.
In the last years she collaborated with international artists such as Alex Cecchetti, Cally Spooner and Gabrielle Goliath.
In November 2026 at Chaillot in Paris she will debut with Hiya Compagnie directed by the choreographer Dalila Belaza with the piece Un peu pour mon coeur.
Bands and Collaborative Projects
Since 2010, she has collaborated in an acoustic duo with double bassist and producer Micha Kaplan in Berlin, performing original compositions as a singer and guitarist. Their duo, Micha and Claudia, released their debut album Du Bist in 2020 and is currently working on their second album, Berlin Nord. She is also a member of Hauswasser, a radical improvisation ensemble founded by Micha Kaplan in 2014, which performs regularly in Berlin.
As a composer, she created and recorded her first soundtrack for Elena Griggio’s medium-length film Imago in August 2025. In February 2025, she began collaborating with visual artist Sara Tirelli on Hydrocene, an immersive visual and sound installation.
Didactic and Community Outreach
Alongside her performing career, Claudia Graziadei has developed extensive experience in music education and community-led workshops.
From 2013 to 2019, she taught choral singing and piano to children at the Venetian associations La Luna nel pozzo and La cicala e la formica. This connection to the local community led her, in October 2016, to assist Giovanni Mancuso for a “conduction” workshop addressed to secondary schools as part of the Biennale Educational program.
In recent years, her pedagogical work has been characterized by prestigious collaborations and inclusive projects. Between 2023 and 2025, she conducted Nuvolando, a musical theater workshop for children (ages 3–6) funded by the City of Venice in collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre de musique romantique française). Since 2021 till now, she is leading Corolab, an adult choral singing workshop based in Venice.
Her commitment to social inclusion is reflected in projects she run in Venice, such as Red Carpet for All (2024), where she served as a choral instructor for an inclusive weekly course dedicated to the elderly and people with disabilities, and the workshops within the program Rising bodies, inner moves: Voice from the seabed committed by Ocean Space. Furthermore, for the 2024–2025 academic year, she holds the position of Professor of Music Pedagogy at the Radio Magica Academy in Udine, a special cultural post-diploma Academy for young adults with disability.
LIVE PERFORMANCES and RESIDENCIES 2026-2019
2026
May 6 | Palau de la Música, Valencia, Spain, Fundació Cultural CdM, AVocal CdM Ensemble, I Vespri della Beata Vergine of Monteverdi directed by Carles Magraner
March 2-6 | Royaumont Abbey Residency, Paris, France Hiya Compagnie – Dance and singing project: creation of the piece Un peu pour mon coeur
2025
Dec 17-19 | St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice, Italy Fondazione Teatro la Fenice – Choir: Cappella Marciana, dir. Marco Gemmani; music by Natale Monferrato, 1660
Nov 26 | Panda Club Kulturbrauerei, Berlin Panda Club – Sextett: Hauswasser free improvisation ensemble
Nov 1 | San Lazzaro Abbey Church, Venice, Italy Mechitaristi Order Foundation – Vocal Sextet: Edesse Ensemble dir. Justine Rapaccioli; Armenian folk and sacred songs
Oct 23-26 | Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Columbia Museum of Modern Art, Medellín – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
Oct 11-14 | Internacional Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico International Cervantino Festival – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
Oct 4 | Sensing the Climate Festival, Bologna, Italy Kilowatt Soc Coop – Soloist: Hydrocene by Sara Tirelli and Claudia Graziadei; 20′ audio installation with live interventions
Sept 29 | Teatro Comunale, Modena, Italy Teatro Comunale di Modena – Soloist in vocal ensemble: L’orecchio onniudente: Willaert, Padovano, Monteverdi and music by Claudio Ambrosini
Sept 15/23/25/27 | Chiesa della Pietà, Venice, Italy Pentagramma Soc. – Soloist: Vedrò con mio diletto from Il Giustino; Motet In Furore Iustissimae Irae by A. Vivaldi
June 21-24 | Seoul, Korea (presented by TAMBURINS) Tamburins – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
June 12-15 | De Vooruit Concertzaal, Gent, Belgium VIERNULVIER Arts Centre – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
May 27–June 7 | Chiesa della Pietà, Venice, Italy Pentagramma Soc. – Soloist: Vivaldi arias from Bajazet, Orlando Furioso, and Juditha Triumphans
May 16 | Ferrara Festival Mixxer, Ferrara, Italy G. Frescobaldi Conservatory – Soloist: Works by Tiziano Manca and Luciano Berio
April 9 | Palau de la Música, Valencia, Spain Fundació Cultural CdM – Vocal group & soloist: Avocal CdM Ensemble; Tenebrae Responsoria by Tomás Luis de Victoria directed by Marco Antonio Garcia
March 21-24 | Teatro Colón, Bogotá, Columbia No Conventional Festival – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
March 5-15 | Portego delle Colonne, St. Mark’s, Venice, Italy Biennale Parola – Vocal group: Cappella Marciana dir. Marco Gemmani; Expositio Sancti Evangelii by Antonello Pocetti
2024
Nov 21 | Arsenale, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy Venice Biennale – Performer & solo singer: Elegy, performance by Gabrielle Goliath
Nov 17 | Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice, Italy Palazzetto Bru Zane – Soprano & piano duo: Le Bestiaire by Louis Durey, 1919
Nov 2 | Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Venice, Italy Venice Music Project – Vocal group: Edesse Ensemble dir. Justine Rapaccioli; works by William Byrd
Sept 27 | Museion, Bolzano, Italy Museion Foundation – Performer & solo singer: Performance by Cally Spooner
Sept 14-15 | Malta Festival, Poznań, Poland Malta Festival – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
Sept 4 | Festival Renaixement, Valencia, Spain Fundació Cultural CdM – Vocal group & soloist: Tenebrae Responsoria by Tomás Luis de Victoria
July 23 | Early Music Morella Festival, Spain Fundació Cultural CdM – Vocal group & soloist: Tenebrae Responsoria by Tomás Luis de Victoria
May 30 – June 1 | Esplanade Theater, Singapore Embassy of Lithuania – Vocal group & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers; opera-performance Sun & Sea
2023
Dec 16 | Scuola Grande dei Carmini, Venice, Italy Venice Music Project – Choir: G.F. Handel’s Messiah
Dec 3 | Christmas Markets, Vallelaghi, Italy Municipality of Vallelaghi – Soloist in ensemble: Pardes Ensemble; 16th-century Spanish Villancicos
Oct 7-8 | Art Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić, Belgrade, Serbia Bitef Festival – Choir & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers
Sept 15-17 | Philharmonie de Paris, France Festival d’Automne à Paris – Choir & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers
Aug 19-27 | TIPAC, Taipei, Taiwan Taipei Arts Festival – Choir & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers
June 23-25 | Cork City Hall, Cork, Ireland Cork Midsummer Festival – Choir & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers
May 19-23 | Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria Wiener Festwochen – Choir & soloist: Sun & Sea (Marina) performers
April 20 | Scuola Grande San Teodoro, Venice, Italy Ca’ Foscari University – Choir & soloist: Edesse Ensemble; Armenian folk and sacred songs
March 16-19 | Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Teatro Colón Fábrica with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Jan 27-30 | Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile. Fundación Teatro a Mil, Santiago a Mil Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Jan 6-8 | Town Hall, Sydney, Australia. Sydney Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
2022
Nov 10-12 | Modern Art Center, Lisbon, Portugal. Alkantara Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Nov 4-5 | Teatro Municipal do Porto-Rivoli, Porto, Portugal. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Oct 27 | Reggia di Venaria, Turin, Italy. Buonissima Torino. Role: Soloist. Performance: Vivaldi Rocks – The Dinner of Time (arias by A. Vivaldi rearranged by Samuel Romano).
Oct 12-23 | Teatro Lliure, Barcelona, Spain. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Sept 15-19 | Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel. Israel Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Aug 10-28 | Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland. Kiasma Helsinki Festival. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
July 14 | Fondazione Isabella Scelsi, Rome, Italy. Role: Soloist / Composer. Performance: Aurora, recital for solo voice and electronics.
June 23 – July 10 | Albany Theater, London, Great Britain. LIFT Festival, Serpentine with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
June 4-5 | Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik Arts Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
2021
Nov 19-21 | Sovremennik Theatre, Moscow, Russia. New European Theater Festival NGO with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Nov 2-14 | Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Oct 14-16 | The Geffen Contemporary MOCA, Los Angeles, California. The Hammer-MOCA-CAP UCLA with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Oct 6-9 | Momentary, Bentonville. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Sept 20 – Oct 3 | Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arcadia University with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Sept 15-26 | BAM Theatre, NYC. Brooklyn Academy of Music with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Sept 1-2 | Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center, Athens, Greece. Athens Epidaurus Festival with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
July 17-18 | E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
June 22 – July 4 | Teatro Argentina, Rome, Italy. Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
May 29 – June 1 | Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. CPH STAGE with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
2020
Oct 9-11 | Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany. Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Aug 13-24 | Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland. ZTS with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
2019
May – Oct | Lithuanian Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale, Italy. Venice Art Biennale with Neon Realism. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Sun & Sea (Marina).
Dec 17-18 | St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice, Italy. Fondazione Teatro la Fenice. Role: Choir & soloist. Performance: Christmas Concert with Marco Gemmani and the soloists of the Cappella Marciana (music by Giovanni Legrenzi, 1670).