Claudia Schwab is an award- winning originally Austrian fiddle player, singer and composer who lives and works in Ireland. Described as 'one of the most creative artists on the Irish music scene today' (Dr. Mel Mercier- Irish World Academy Limerick), she has published two CD's of original work in 2014 (Amber Sands) and 2017 (Attic Mornings), which received a variety of reviews by magazines such as FATEA ('pretty much unforgettable'), Folkworld ('she makes Yodel music modern and happening'), Songlines and Roots ('crazy and yet strangely attractive').
Claudia's musical journeys have brought her all over Europe, over to to India, Indonesia, Egypt and the US, as part of orchestras and bands as well as touring her own solo project (Quartet, Solo). Notable performances have included appearances at the Cairo Jazz Festival (EGY), Electric Picnic Festival (IRE), the International Gamelan Festival Solo (IDN), Cacéres Irish Fleadh (ESP), Rudolstadt World Music Festival (DE), Fleadh TV (IRE), Body & Soul Festival (IRE), Shrewsbury Folk Festival (UK), Glatt & Verkehrt Festival (AT), folkArt Festival (AT), the Button Factory (IRE), Vicar Street (IRE), Sargfabrik Vienna (AT) and Moldova Ethno Jazz Festival.
Writing and touring her own works regularly, she also features on numerous recordings and collaborations with a range of cross-genre artists, including Seamie O'Dowd, Cathy Jordan and Brian McDonagh (Dervish), Seanan Brennan and Dee Armstrong (Kíla), Austrian string-trio Netnakisum, Matija Solce (Ethno in Transit), Nick Roth (Yurodny), Duke Special, Pt. Sukhdev Prasad Mishra, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Colin Dunne, Padraig Meehan, Nina Hynes, Matthias Schriefl, Niwel Tsumbu, Hannah James, Kate Young and many more.
In 2019, she was commissioned to write for the NCH- Sounding the Feminists Commissioning Scheme 2019 and was awarded a Next Generation Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council (2019), the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2019 with the Band “Shreefpunk + Strings”, followed by the Hubert Von Goisern Förderpreis in 2020.
Claudia currently performs with the Claudia Schwab Quartet, accordionist/clog dancer and singer Hannah James, jazz trumpetist Matthias Schriefl, Plúirín na mBan (feat. Cathy Jordan & Irene Buckley), the Irish Gamelan Orchestra and Sligo-based band The Craic Addicts.
