April 22, 2019
Doors At 7. Music At 7:30pm
Brooklyn based saxophonist and composer Anna Webber performs a set of solo music followed by a duo set with Chicago percussionist Tim Daisy. Don’t miss the chance to hear these two artists collaborate in what’s sure to be an exciting evening of sound exploration.
Set 1 - Anna Webber (saxophone/flute) solo
Set 2 - Anna Webber and Tim Daisy (percussion) duo*
*NOTE: Anna was originally scheduled to perform Set 2 with Katherine Young, however due to unforseen circumstances Katherine will no longer be able to make it. Acclaimed percussionist Tim Daisy will join Anna instead.
“Reedist Anna Webber, a Brooklynite by way of British Columbia, is one of the most exciting new arrivals on the New York avant-garde jazz scene in the past couple years. ...her detail-rich writing recalls the work of elders as disparate as Tim Berne and Henry Threadgill, and her busy motion evokes a fizzy sort of exhilaration.” - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
Anna Webber is a New York-based flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Her new album, Clockwise, featuring a septet comprised of several of the most creative musicians working in New York’s avant-garde, is released on Pi Recordings (February 2019).
Webber’s other projects include her Simple Trio, with John Hollenbeck and Matt Mitchell, and a big band co-led with Angela Morris. She has performed and/or recorded with projects led by artists such as Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Dave Douglas, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, John Hollenbeck, and Geof Bradfield, among others.
Webber is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. She has additionally been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation (2015) and residencies from the MacDowell Colony (2017), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2015), and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2014). In 2014 she won the BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Composition Prize as a member of the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop. Webber is originally from British Columbia.
Photo credit: Peter Gannushkin
April OPTION performances are generously sponsored by Petzel gallery.
