Chicago Cabaret Professionals

CLAUDIA HOMMEL
Actor - Singer

"...a latter-day female counterpart to Maurice Chevalier, she offers an unspoken guarantee that you'll think you paid for the evening in euros."
--Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader "Critic's Choice"

"Miss Hommel's voice can be strong and soaring, and she uses it to excellent dramatic effect."
-- John S. Wilson, The New York Times

"So spectacular, so commanding a presence. She has a smooth, rich voice... at once sexy and sophisticated, stunning in an Audrey Hepburn sort of way."
-- Judy Marcus, North Shore Magazine

"The evocation of every French chanteuse from those painted by Toulouse-Lautrec through Yvette Guilbert and on to Edith Piaf."
-- Paul Edson, Detroit Center News

"Claudia is gifted and uniquely versatile, with deep emotional commitment or zany satirical high-jinx and everything in between."
-- Alvin Epstein, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge

Visit Claudia's web site at
http://www.cabaret-paree.com

A "favorite" from the Club at Symphony Center to the Musée de Montmartre, Claudia Hommel is a "bit of Audrey Hepburn, with something of Ginger Rogers, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and ...Air Jordan." Born in Paris, Claudia specializes in combining international art songs, American Standards and French chansons to create character and drama. Her cabaret concerts are custom-made for recital halls, theatres, outdoor festivals, nightclubs and restaurants, accompanied by piano, accordion, jazz ensemble or orchestra.

Claudia brings Parisian cabaret programs and workshops to secondary school and university campuses. On faculty at the DePaul Community Music School, Claudia leads "songshop" classes in song interpretation at home and on tour.

You can now travel with Claudia to Paris for her annual "Cabaret Intourludes". Her offerings for private parties were selected for North Shore Magazine's "Top Ten Ideas for the Best Party Ever". You can hear her on three Maison Clobert albums: Paris/Paree, Paris in the Jazz Age, and Romance Language: French songs for lovers, with violinist Johnny Frigo.

A long-time member of Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA, Claudia is a founding member of Chicago Cabaret Professionals.

ROMANCE LANGUAGE - FRENCH SONGS FOR LOVERS
A perfect soirée for live improvisation, elegance and romance

PARIS IN THE JAZZ AGE
American music invades Paris during the "crazy years" between the wars

SOUVENIRS OF PARIS, 1950
Hats off to Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington

FRENCH IMPRESSIONS - A SALON CONCERT
19th and 20th century French mélodie (from Fauré to Poulenc)

CLASSES in song interpretation (master classes on tour and ongoing courses at DePaul University)

WORKSHOPS for French and history students

Claudia Hommel is an Illinois Arts Tour and Arts-in-Education fee-supported artist.

JoÎlle Productions
P.O. Box 259327
Chicago IL 60625
773-509-9360
Toll free outside Chicagoland: 888-590-9360
clobert@compuserve.com