Matt Mitchell / Sara Serpa at Solar Myth

Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present two of the most creative and captivating voices in modern jazz, pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell and vocalist Sara Serpa, at Solar Myth on Thursday, December 4.

Called a “pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguard” by Nate Chinen in The New York Times, Matt Mitchell is a pianist, composer, and electronic musician interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He has a longstanding association with Tim Berne, and he has played extensively in the ensembles of many major figures in improvised music, including Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, David Binney, John Hollenbeck, Miguel Zenon, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Linda May Han Oh, Jonathan Finlayson, Mario Pavone, and Darius Jones. A native of Lisboa, Portugal, Sara Serpa is a singer, composer and improviser who, through her practice and performance, explores the use of the voice as an instrument. Described by JazzTimes as “a master of wordless landscapes,” Serpa has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians including John Zorn, Nicole Mitchell, Okkyung Lee, Linda May Han Oh, Kris Davis, Dan Weiss, Mark Turner, David Virelles, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. After crossing paths in Serpa’s multi-media Intimate Strangers project and as a duo on Ingrid Laubrock’s Purposing the Air, they reconvened to record their own compelling new album, End of Something....

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Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present two of the most creative and captivating voices in modern jazz, pianist/keyboardist Matt Mitchell and vocalist Sara Serpa, at Solar Myth on Thursday, December 4.

Called a “pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguard” by Nate Chinen in The New York Times, Matt Mitchell is a pianist, composer, and electronic musician interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He has a longstanding association with Tim Berne, and he has played extensively in the ensembles of many major figures in improvised music, including Dave Douglas, Steve Coleman, David Binney, John Hollenbeck, Miguel Zenon, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Linda May Han Oh, Jonathan Finlayson, Mario Pavone, and Darius Jones. A native of Lisboa, Portugal, Sara Serpa is a singer, composer and improviser who, through her practice and performance, explores the use of the voice as an instrument. Described by JazzTimes as “a master of wordless landscapes,” Serpa has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians including John Zorn, Nicole Mitchell, Okkyung Lee, Linda May Han Oh, Kris Davis, Dan Weiss, Mark Turner, David Virelles, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. After crossing paths in Serpa’s multi-media Intimate Strangers project and as a duo on Ingrid Laubrock’s Purposing the Air, they reconvened to record their own compelling new album, End of Something.

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