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Michael Shekwoaga Ode is a student of the game. Forever. Starting at a young age behind the kit, he quickly excelled and eventually landed a scholarship to the Oberlin Observatory, where he studied under the legend Billy Hart. With focus on musicality and a dedication to serving the music, Ode has created quite the name for himself in the Jazz World and created quite the resume…
Aidan Lombard, trumpet, was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Chicago. He began playing trumpet at age 10. Lombard attended the University of Miami as a Stamps Scholar and received a Bachelor of Music degree. He later received his master’s degree from the Berklee College of Music, where he performed with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute…
Georgia Heers is a vocalist and composer residing in Harlem. She recently moved to New York City from Greenville, South Carolina, to pursue her graduate studies at The Juilliard School. She aims to dedicate her life exploring the depths of music spanning across the African Diaspora. Georgia believes deeply in the healing components of music and artistic creation to cultivate community and healing.
The Wire magazine places Sara in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her "riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.” Originally from California now a Brooklyn resident, Sara focuses on the intersections between texture, melody and the ever-expanding notion of what the bassoon is capable of in both notated and improvised music…
Chris Ryan Williams (https://www.chriswilliamssound.com) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based between NYC and LA and most at home collaborating with contemporary improvisers and experimentalists. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work explores the dyad of ancestral trauma and power existing in all Black Americans. Investigating this has led to the creation of the modular piece I Ain’t Got No Spare (2019) which interweaves performance, homemade electronics, sound and projection; presented at Clockshop with a second installation iteration at Shatto Gallery through CultureHub. Selected recent and upcoming projects include: mehahn a theatrical meditation on grief and hereditary dissonance created alongside director Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Sans Soleil a duo with Patrick Shiroishi out on Astral Spirits (2021), On The Platform (2020) a collaboration with percussionist Booker Stardrum and animator Miranda Javid which premiered in the Netherlands at West Den Haag. Williams has received grants and/or been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, CultureHub, Atlantic Center for the Arts, WasteLAnd, and others. Williams has collaborated with creators Eyvind Kang, Joanna Mattrey, Miriam Parker, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Fay Victor, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Amanda Beech, Marjani Forte-Saunders, Eric Revis.
Hailed as “A fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” by the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Aakash Mittal is sculpting a dynamic voice that mines the intersection of improvisation, composition, sonified movement, and noise. Mittal’s work explores universal designs while being rooted in both South Asian and American musical traditions…
Ananya Ganesh is a pianist, improviser, and composer from Madras. They are currently based in Brooklyn and working to decolonize sound curating and material change-making.
Originally from Costa Rica, Kenneth Jimenez is a bass player and composer currently based in New York City. He’s performed with artists Francisco Mela, Michael Attias, Tom Rainey, Satoshi Takeishi, Angelica Sanchez, Gerald Cleaver, Ingrid Laubrock, Stephen Scott, Brian Lynch, Gary Campbell, Roxana Amed, Martin Bejerano, Jose Luis de la Paz and Emilio Solla.
Sam Wenc (b. 1990; Western Massachusetts) is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, and video. As a multi-instrumentalist, he utilizes guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, field recordings, and found objects to compose modal, process-based works that seek to challenge and blur concepts of what constitutes “folk music”…
Steven Crammer is a Brooklyn based freelance drummer performing in a wide range of improvised musical contexts. His distinct voice on the instrument stems from a deep love and study of music from straight-ahead to free improvisation, metal to Indian classical…
Mathias is a musician who has worked professionally for over a decade. Music has brought him around the world, and he has toured through most of Europe, Israel and the US, and he has grown to become a musician with an acute sensitivity, and presence. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mathias Højgaard Jensen got involved with music at the age of 9 when he taught himself to read sheet music at the piano...
Gideon Forbes is a saxophonist, composer, and educator in Brooklyn, New York. He has shared the stage with notable musicians such as Angelica Sanchez, Joe Lovano, and Joe McGinty & The Loser's Lounge. In 2018, he was an artist at the 2018 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. Gideon is a member of Nortonk, which released its eponymous debut album on Biophilia Records in May 2021.
gabby fluke-mogul is a New York based improviser, composer, & educator. fluke-mogul exists within the threads of improvisation, the jazz continuum, noise, & experimental music. Their playing has been described as “embodied, visceral, & virtuosic" & "the most striking sound in improvised music in years..." gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Fred Frith, Daniel Carter, Ava Mendoza, Jessica Pavone, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, & Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers, & visual artists.
Jeong Lim Yang gained her recognition from playing with New York City's veteran artists such as Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Adam Kolker, Michael Attias and Billy Mintz since she moved to the Big Apple in 2011. Yang's first leader album "deja vu", has reflected her pure inspiration of playing with these musicians and her compositional ideas resemble much of her hero's like Charlie Haden and Paul Motian.
New Jersey born pianist, composer and improviser Theo Walentiny grew up in an artistic home, his father an abstract painter and his mother an art therapist. Walentiny moved to New York City to continue his studies at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2014. While at The New School he has been fortunate enough to study with Reggie Workman, Jane Ira Bloom and Kirk Nurock among many others. It is here that Walentiny began to forge and solidify his sound drawing upon influences such as Andrew Hill, Tyshawn Sorey, Tōru Takemitsu and Henri Dutilleux.
Japanese pianist Tomomi Sato enjoys a diverse career as a collaborative artist, vocal coach, and pedagogue. A prizewinner of 2013 Seattle International Piano Competition, she has made solo and collaborative recital appearances in Europe, South America, Asia, as well as venues across the United States including Zankel Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, LACMA and others…
Hailed by La Nacion for his “beautiful sound and exquisite musicality”, Argentinean violinist Sami Merdinian has received worldwide recognition for his outstanding performances as a soloist and chamber musician. Sami has recently appeared with the Montevideo Philharmonic, the Argentinean National Symphony, The Charlemagne Orchestre, The GagneungPhilharmonic in South Korea…
Doug Wieselman – has worked and played with a variety of artists in different fields including John Lurie, Antony and the Johnsons, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, CocoRosie, Martha Wainwright, Jerome Robbins, Hal Willner, Butch Morris, Kronos Quartet and Robert Wilson…
Chhorn Sam Ath is a well-known singer and actor who also teaches at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. In 2007, Sam Ath was invited to perform at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Both singers hail from famous artist families and have performed extensively in Cambodia, New Zealand, and the US.
KEO DORIVAN, KEO SONANKAVEI, KEO SOPHY, POV REAKSMEYMONY, SAY TOLA, SNGOUN KAVEI SEREY ROTH
The ensemble features some of the leading instrumentalists and vocalists in Cambodia.
They have traveled and performed extensively around the world, in addition to some emerging musicians. Previous performances took members of the ensemble to China, Korea, Singapore, and the US. At present, some ensemble members work as independent artists while others teach at the Faculty of Music at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh.
