Annie Darmon's songs are "neither classical nor romantic, nor modernist nor folk.†They ARE moving. Ms. Darmon has perfected a personal technique which gives its full measure in Judeo-Spanish and Hassidic songs (adapted from a simple melody).
Her phenomenal five octave voice swings from the bass to the treble notes like that of an acrobat of the stave, with a stunning easiness. She beckons her audience playfully into her own musical world.
Beyond her stupendous vocal technique, Annie Darmon occasionally graces us with a spark of eternity, in such pieces as Ravel’s “Kaddish†and the Hebraïc and Christian sacred songs. Perhaps we should also tread the new path she invites us to follow, in her approach to better-known scores like Schubert’s Ave Maria or Gounod’s Sanctus.
Annie Darmon's voice expresses violence and softness, joy and despair, with a communicative intensity. Her way is “heavy with History, powdery with the dust of the roads of exileâ€â€¦
She has performed throughout France in numerous venues, most notably Notre Dame Cathedral and Saint Chapelle. Internationally, she has found rave critical and audience praise in countries including the U.S., Israel, Brazil, and the Czech Republic.
