To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign.
About the Artists:
Andrea Wolper: “An audacious artist [who] flouts genre limitations, singing songs for the love of it and delivering an inventive, thrilling, appealing musical vision” vocalist, composer, improviser, poet Andrea Wolper works “in a milieu that begins with jazz and reaches out to embrace an expressive area that is uniquely her own.”...
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To continue safely serving our community of artists and audience members, Arts for Art is filming and releasing new performances on Tuesdays and Thursdays in January, February, and March. A pay-what-you-can donation is required to view each video. All donations will go towards AFA’s Artists & Friends Campaign.
About the Artists:
Andrea Wolper: “An audacious artist [who] flouts genre limitations, singing songs for the love of it and delivering an inventive, thrilling, appealing musical vision” vocalist, composer, improviser, poet Andrea Wolper works “in a milieu that begins with jazz and reaches out to embrace an expressive area that is uniquely her own.”
Working frequently as both leader and side-person, Andrea leads her own ensembles; was a founding member of the free improv trio, TranceFormation, with pianist Connie Crothers and bassist Ken Filiano; and appears as a side person across jazz genres, recording and/or performing for artists including Jay Clayton, Will Connell, Bob Gluck, Matt Lavelle, Frank London, William Parker, Patricia Nicholson Parker, and others. Her recordings as leader, co-leader, and side person have landed on a number of "Best of Year" lists, and she is one of the "great jazz singers" in "The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide” (Back Beat Books).
Virg Dzurinko: VIRG DZURINKO is a pianist who is equally at home with jazz standards and free improvisation. For years, she played steady gigs in clubs and restaurants in and around New York City. Her own band included Alex Gressel (bass), Gary Levy (alto), Ed Ornowski (drums). She also played in groups headed by Charley Krachy (tenor) and with Jan Leder (flute). After a long hiatus from the performing scene, Virg started doing sessions with an ever-expanding number of musicians and eventually began playing in public again.
VIrg is member of the free jazz collective, Accessible by Canoe Only, along with Ryan Messina, Nick Lyons, Atsushi Ouchi (multiple horns), Takafumi Kosaka (percussion), and Will Jhun (tenor). The group began performing in 2016, and has a recording in a the works.
Among the musicians Virg has performed with are instrumentalists Vijay Anderson, Daro Behroozi, Adam Caine, Daniel Carter, Claire de Brunner, Andrew Drury, Ken Filiano, Birgitta Flick, Alex Gressel, Will Jhun, Jessica Jones, Takafumi Kosaka, Charley Krachy, Jan Leder, Eva Lindal, Adam Lane, Gary Levy, Nick Lyons, Jon McCutcheon, Ryan Messina, Atsushi Ouchi, Sean Smith, Joe Solomon, Joanna Sternberg, Satoshi Takeishi, Federico Ughi, John Wagner, Mareika Wiening, Michael Wimberly; and vocalists Maryanne DeProphetis, Dori Levine, Alexis Parsons, and Andrea Wolper. Virg has performed at various venues in the NYC area including The Stone, Birdland, Roulette, Greenwich House, Cornelia Street Cafe, the Howland Cultural Center, the Firehouse Space, iBeam, Scholes Street Studio.
Judith Insell: Judith Insell, a New York native, has been an active member of the New York jazz, classical, and pop scene since the mid nineties. Violist can play anything!
Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Antonio Hart, and Miguel Zenon are just a few of the many jazz greats with whom Ms. Insell has had the pleasure of performing and recording. She has performed throughout the eastern United States with the chamber jazz string group “Sojourner.” As a founding member of “Sojourner,” Ms. Insell has not only explored self expression through improvisation, she has also ventured into the realm of composition with the title track of the group’s CD “Journey” and arranging such standards as Thelonious Monk’s “I Mean You.”
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