Ayana Haviv, Session Singer: Bio

Grammy®-winning singer Ayana Haviv is a versatile and very experienced professional singer, both on stage and in the studio. Classically trained, Ayana is equally proficient in any style of pop, folk, musical theater, jazz, and "ethnic"-flavored film music.

Ayana is a member and has been a soloist in Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Los Angeles Master Chorale, where she has sung everything from atonal 21st-century music to Anglican chant. Originally from Israel, she grew up singing Jewish music of all kinds, from klezmer to Middle Eastern. Ayana's voice can be heard on the film and TV soundtracks AVATAR, 2012, CATS & DOGS 2, CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT, THE PHILANTHROPIST, LEAVE, DOROTHY OF OZ, WEST BANK STORY, ALPHA DOG and many others. She has recorded as both a soloist and ensemble singer on film soundtracks by Aaron Zigman, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Stephen Trask, Harald Kloser, Christopher Lennertz, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Austin Wintory, and Yuval Ron, as well as the video games THE PUNISHER, FIGHT NIGHT and JAMES BOND: QUANTUM OF SOLACE by Christopher Lennertz and Timothy Michael Wynn, pop solos for various songwriters, and numerous albums including her own E.P. as part of Nest, her indie rock duo. Nest has had several successful television soundtrack placements: My Network TV's DESIRE and FASHION HOUSE, and MTV's MY SUPER SWEET 16. She has been a member of choruses specializing in vocal jazz, South African folk music, college a cappella, Baroque and Renaissance music, and Bulgarian women's folk singing. In 2007 she won a Grammy® as part of the local chamber chorus Cappella, which recorded a baroque choral album, PADILLA: SUN OF JUSTICE, which won for Best Small Ensemble Performance.

Ayana is an excellent sightreader and is equally proficient and rapid in learning music by ear. She can blend like butter or provide a unique and beautiful lead spot. She can match tone and style, take musical direction well, speak both "composer" and "producer", and change styles at a moment's notice. She is also a charismatic live performer, and brings that energy with her into the studio.

Latest Projects :

• Light-classical choir on the films AVATAR, 2012, and CATS & DOGS 2

• Early-music featured solos on the film LEAVE

• Singing the part of a "Handmaiden" in a female barbershop quartet in the forthcoming film DOROTHY OF OZ, as well as demos for the lead, Lea Michele as Dorothy

• Two Little Mermaid character-voice solos on the Walt Disney Records CD DISNEY ON BROADWAY, a pop solo on DISNEY HOLIDAY MAGIC, and numerous Demi Lovato teen-pop songs for DISNEY'S CAMP ROCK 2: KARAOKE

• Bulgarian women's chorus on the film CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (Universal Pictures)

• The role of the "Third Swallow" in Los Angeles Opera's Die Vogel

• Balkan and Middle-Eastern-style solos on the NBC show THE PHILANTHROPIST

• Soprano soloist in Haydn's Heiligmesse and Handel's Messiah with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Walt Disney Concert Hall

Specialties:

Classical: opera, art song, oratorio, boy soprano, atonal, choral. Pop, light jazz, rock, gospel, soul, R&B, country, musical theater, children's voices, characters. Slavic, African, Middle Eastern, Israeli, American, Jewish, Klezmer, Ladino, Bulgarian, Balkan, & Yiddish folk music.




	"The most stylistically versatile singer I've ever heard… she's everything I've been teaching students for 30 years - except I didn't teach her!" —Gary Powell, composer and producer, Walt Disney Records	Grammy®-winning singer Ayana Haviv is a versatile and very experienced professional singer, both on stage and in the studio. Classically trained, Ayana is equally proficient in any style of pop, folk, musical theater, jazz, and "ethnic"-flavored film music. Ayana is a member and has been a soloist in Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Los Angeles Master Chorale, where she has sung everything from atonal 21st-century music to Anglican chant. Originally from Israel, she grew up singing Jewish music of all kinds, from klezmer to Middle Eastern. Ayana's voice can be heard on the film and TV soundtracks AVATAR, 2012, CATS & DOGS 2, CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT, THE PHILANTHROPIST, LEAVE, DOROTHY OF OZ, WEST BANK STORY, ALPHA DOG and many others. She has recorded as both a soloist and ensemble singer on film soundtracks by Aaron Zigman, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Stephen Trask, Harald Kloser, Christopher Lennertz, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Austin Wintory, and Yuval Ron, as well as the video games THE PUNISHER, FIGHT NIGHT and JAMES BOND: QUANTUM OF SOLACE by Christopher Lennertz and Timothy Michael Wynn, pop solos for various songwriters, and numerous albums including her own E.P. as part of Nest, her indie rock duo. Nest has had several successful television soundtrack placements: My Network TV's DESIRE and FASHION HOUSE, and MTV's MY SUPER SWEET 16. She has been a member of choruses specializing in vocal jazz, South African folk music, college a cappella, Baroque and Renaissance music, and Bulgarian women's folk singing. In 2007 she won a Grammy® as part of the local chamber chorus Cappella, which recorded a baroque choral album, PADILLA: SUN OF JUSTICE, which won for Best Small Ensemble Performance. Ayana is an excellent sightreader and is equally proficient and rapid in learning music by ear. She can blend like butter or provide a unique and beautiful lead spot. She can match tone and style, take musical direction well, speak both "composer" and "producer", and change styles at a moment's notice. She is also a charismatic live performer, and brings that energy with her into the studio. Latest Projects : • Light-classical choir on the films AVATAR, 2012, and CATS & DOGS 2 • Early-music featured solos on the film LEAVE • Singing the part of a "Handmaiden" in a female barbershop quartet in the forthcoming film DOROTHY OF OZ, as well as demos for the lead, Lea Michele as Dorothy • Two Little Mermaid character-voice solos on the Walt Disney Records CD DISNEY ON BROADWAY, a pop solo on DISNEY HOLIDAY MAGIC, and numerous Demi Lovato teen-pop songs for DISNEY'S CAMP ROCK 2: KARAOKE • Bulgarian women's chorus on the film CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (Universal Pictures) • The role of the "Third Swallow" in Los Angeles Opera's Die Vogel • Balkan and Middle-Eastern-style solos on the NBC show THE PHILANTHROPIST • Soprano soloist in Haydn's Heiligmesse and Handel's Messiah with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Walt Disney Concert Hall Specialties: Classical: opera, art song, oratorio, boy soprano, atonal, choral. Pop, light jazz, rock, gospel, soul, R&B, country, musical theater, children's voices, characters. Slavic, African, Middle Eastern, Israeli, American, Jewish, Klezmer, Ladino, Bulgarian, Balkan, & Yiddish folk music.


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