Nathalie Musardo was born in Lausanne of French and Italian origins and lives in Zurich. Graduated in music education, choral conducting (diploma in 2007 with Michel Corboz and Michel Marc Gervais, HEM Geneva), flute (Françoise Moret and Brigitte Buxtorf, HEM Lausanne), musicology and sinology (Universities of Geneva and Zurich) she has also studied singing, among others with Gyslaine Waelchli, Marie-Claire Cottin, Danielle Schmid, Tim Brown, Karen Brunssen, Andrew Byrne and Ariane Leanza.

 

Today she conducts several choirs in Zurich and its region: Mixed choir PhoniXang, catholic Church choir Cäcilia Tägerig, Children's and youth choirs of Music school Uster Greifensee, and different projects ad hoc.

 

As a mezzo-soprano, she sings/has sung in various professional and semi-professional choirs (Ensemble Vocal Féminin Callirhoé, Chamber choir Turicum, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Chamber choir of the Haute École de musique de Genève, Baroqueries du Swiss Consort…). 

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In addition to classical music, she focuses as a soloist on bossa nova, jazz and French chanson (duos with several jazz pianists or with accordionist Daniel Studer, who passed away in 2021). In 2018, she founded with pianist Johannes Röhrenbach the band The Blue Crew – "Bossa Nova, Mashups, Jazz & Co", with which she sings and plays the flute in concerts, lounge music or during jam sessions.

 

Besides her activity as a performer, she teaches pop/jazz singing at Music school Uster Greifensee and privately. She regularly produces arrangements for the ensembles she works with, whether for a cappella choir, jazz group or orchestra. She is also a music editor for the jazz and classical music section of Aux arts etc. (French-speaking cultural platform in Zurich and Ticino), creates websites and manages communication on social media for several cultural partners.