CHRISTINE KAMMERER
SINGER & SONGWRITER | COMPOSER | MUSIC HISTORY REENACTER
“Christine’s voice is ethereal and haunting.
If a voice could take you away to a mystical place then her voice is the one to do it.
~ BroadwayWorld UK
“An engaging storyteller, it’s really the rich tones of Kammerer’s singing voice that steal the show. It’s very easy to imagine her singing in an ancient wood, her voice drifting far into the past.”
~ Playbill
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CHRISTINE KAMMERER is a Danish-born critically acclaimed, award-nominated international artist, known for her versatile talents as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. Today she lives in Scotland. In her career so far, she has released 2 EP’s, 2 singles, a music video, and her debut album “Echoes of North”; A symphonic fusion of the tonalities of Nordic and Celtic folk music.
Using her background in Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies, and skills as a Music Producer, her forte is developing projects which focus on curating cultural heritage and strengthening intercultural connections through music. One of her specialized areas is Viking Age Music, and for the past 7 years she has collaborated with several museums, universities and festivals in Scotland and Scandinavia, both as a soloist and with her bands Gjaldulei and Jotunger. Throughout her career, Kammerer has graced stages across the UK, Scandinavia, Germany, and USA, in venues such as Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Elsinore Castle, Copenhagen Distillery and the National Museum of Denmark. Performances also include for the Danish Royal Family.
THE PROJECTS: VIKINGS AND WHISKY
Kammerer is lead singer and lyre player in the fusion-folk/Viking band Jotunger, and is co-founder of the 5-star, critically acclaimed, award-nominated musical whisky experience “Whisky & Witches.” The show has toured Denmark, Scotland, Norway and Northern Ireland and sold out over 25 shows.
On top of her career as a singer, Kammerer has always loved whisky and co-founded a whisky club in Denmark before moving to Scotland. Starting her career in 2022 as a Performance Artist and Experience Ambassador at Johnnie Walker Princes Street, she later got a mentorship with the OurWhisky Foundation Mentorship Programme.
Kammerer now works with whisky companies and distilleries who wish to active their products and brand in a different, creative way. Soon she will release a jingle she wrote for a whisky company, along with her first Musical Whisky Interpretation.
In her releatively young career in whisky, Kammerer has performed her musical whisky tastings, at some of the biggest whisky festivals and venues: Spirit of Speyside Festival (UK), Feìs ìle (UK), Schloss Thurnau (GER), Copenhagen Distillery (DK), Tunsberg Whisky Festival (NO), Belfast Whiskey Week (NIR), and Celtic Castle (GER).
Additionally, Kammerer is Affiliate Artist with UNESCO RILA (Refugees Integration through Languages and Arts) at University of Glasgow. In 2024 she finished a Creative Scotland project for the Scottish Crannog Centre, composing music for the new Iron Age village in Dalerb. Kammerer co-created a choir composition for Maryhill Integration Network’s “the Joyous Choir”, and composed 8 songs for the museum, which have developed over her 4 years of working with them.
Listen to Echoes of North here
View projects and collaborations here
WATCH LIVE PERFORMANCE REEL
REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS:
Metal-head.de – review
Metal-head.de – interview
“I was instantly blown away by [Christine’s] voice, her talent as a performer and her ability to tell stories when she sings. She completely captivates her audience and performs complex tracks with the greatest of ease and ethereal grace.”
~ Birgitte Schmølker, the Danish Chambre Orchestra
“Something special happens when the worlds of Celtic and Nordic music meet in Christine’s music, providing a synergy between cultures and countries that strengthens our bonds beyond borders.”
~ Rachel Backshall, Assistant Director at The Scottish Crannog Centre
RELEASES
“Raven Brings Runes” (2022) – an international collaboration
MORE RELEASES:
- “The Dragonborn Comes” (cover 2021, made in collaboration with Bethesda Nordic)
- “Eversong” (single 2021, with her band JotunGER) Listen here
- “Growing Pains” (solo EP 2020). Listen here
- “Gjaldulei” (EP 2019, with her band Gjaldulei) Watch performances here
WATCH PERFORMANCES HERE
Christine Kammerer – Singing, Piano and Lyre (live compilation)
Christine Kammerer – Singing and Guitar (live compilation)
“The Dragonborn Comes” cover – See the music video here
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Music and folk music have always been part of my life. In High School I majored in Music and Drama, and afterwards continued down this path, when I took an intensive 6-month course at The School for Music and Theater in Toftlund, Denmark. I went on to do a BA in Musicology and Cross-Cultural Studies and then a Master of Arts in Culture and Communications from Copenhagen University. In my masters I specialized in Living History and in the discussion, portrayal and performance of cultural and collective identity in different genres of music.Since then, I have done courses in Assertive Communication and Personal Leadership, have studied the ancient technique of Kulning (Nordic Herd Calling) and have studied Music Production at MPW (Music Production for Women, London).
In 2022-2023 I finished a course in Music Production, Management and PR called “Master Your Music” at MPW.
As a composer in Jotunger (formerly Gjaldulei), Christine Kammerer studies ancient musical structures and searches through the sagas and the cultural history of the Viking Age, to create new compositions. Composing on her lyre (a replica of the one found in the Sutton Hoo excavation) she marries prehistoric soundscapes, with Nordic and Celtic folk tonalities. Her approach to composing is experimental and rooted in music archeology, music history and cultural history.
CONTACT
contact@ckammerer-music.com
+45 2250 2559 / +44 (0)7856 549 053
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