About the artist
Interpretin jüdischer Musik in all ihren Facetten
The beginning
Born in Vienna, Timna is the daughter of Yemeni-Israeli singer Neomi Dahabani and Austrian painter Arik Brauer. She grew up in Paris, Vienna and Israel. After completing her secondary education at the Lycée Français de Vienne, she studied guitar and piano and received vocal training at the Vienna Conservatory. She went on to study musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris and attended masterclasses in classical singing, jazz and Indian vocal music.
Career
In 1986, Timna represented Austria as a soloist at the Eurovision Song Contest, launching an international career in collaboration with musicians from across the globe. Her artistic focus spans crossover projects, chanson, children’s programmes and, above all, Jewish music in all its diversity. In 1989, she was among the prizewinners at the Concours national de jazz Paris–La Défense. To date, she has recorded around 20 albums.
On Stage
In the mid-1990s, Timna headed the Jazz Vocal Department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In 1999, she performed the role of Jenny in Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera with Ensemble Modern Frankfurt; in 2000, she appeared in the title role of Evita at the Lake Stage in Klagenfurt. For many years, she led and toured with the peace project Voices for Peace, bringing together Palestinian and Israeli musicians. In Chant for Peace, she entered into a musical dialogue with the monks of Heiligenkreuz; the resulting recording was released by Deutsche Grammophon and awarded a Gold Record.
Further stage appearances include Golde in Fiddler on the Roof at Schloss Kittsee in 2008 and at the Stadttheater Bozen in 2015. In 2022, Timna made her debut in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the Haus der Musik in Innsbruck, performing with the chamber orchestra under the direction of Oswald Sallaberger. Since 2023, she has collaborated regularly with the Morphing Chamber Orchestra.
Since 2011, Timna has been the director of her father’s art collection at Villa Brauer in Vienna and has also increasingly devoted herself to painting and sculpture.
