Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS February 10, 2020 Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450 Tickets & Information: 212/854-7799 [email protected] millertheatre.com Lauren Bailey Cognetti, 212/854-1633 [email protected] “The lyric beauty of her tone, the easy fluidity of her technique, and the extroverted manner of her delivery make this music accessible to all.” — The Chicago Tribune Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts concludes its 2019-2020 Jazz series with Anat Cohen Quartetinho Saturday, March 7, 2020, 8:00 P.M. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Tickets: starting at $25; Students with valid ID: starting at $7 https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-anat-cohen-quartetinho?e=076444d635 Page 1 of 7 Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM Anat Cohen, photo by Shervin Lainez. Jazz Saturday, March 7, 2020, 8:00 P.M. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Anat Cohen Quartetinho The charismatic and prolific GRAMMY-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen returns with her expressive artistry and captivating stage presence. Cohen has earned accolades from audiences, critics, and peers alike, including “Clarinetist of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007. ARTISTS: Anat Cohen, clarinet & bass clarinet Vitor Gonçalves, accordion & piano Tal Mashiach, bass & guitar James Shipp, percussion, vibraphone, electronics https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-anat-cohen-quartetinho?e=076444d635 Page 2 of 7 Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM Anat Cohen anatcohen.com An established bandleader and prolific composer, GRAMMY-nominated Anat Cohen has established herself as one of the primary voices of her generation on both the tenor saxophone and clarinet. Born in Tel Aviv, Cohen began clarinet studies at age 12 and played jazz on the clarinet for the first time in the Jaffa Conservatory’s Dixieland band. At 16, she joined the school’s big band and learned to play the tenor saxophone, which she later played in the Israeli Air Force band. Through a World Scholarship Tour, Cohen matriculated at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1996. Three years later, she moved to New York and spent the following decade touring with Sherrie Maricle’s all-woman big band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra. She also worked in Brazilian groups including the Choro Ensemble and Duduka Da Fonseca Jazz Quintet, along with David Ostwald’s Gully Low Jazz Band, performing the music of Louis Armstrong. In 2014, she was the music director for the Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60, an all-star band that toured the U.S. for the festival’s 60th anniversary. In 2017, Cohen played all the major European festivals as part of the all-star, all-female band Artemis alongside artists including Renee Rosnes and Cécile McLorin Salvant. She has also toured in a duo with pianist Fred Hersch, as well as with Cuban singer Omara Portuondo. Cohen has performed for audiences at New York’s Village Vanguard, Jazz Standard, Iridium, The Jazz Gallery, and the JVC Jazz Festival. She has also appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s Yoshi’s, Boston’s Regattabar, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Her July 2007 engagement at the Village Vanguard in New York was an historic one as she became the first female reed player and the first Israeli to headline at the club. Since 2005, Cohen has released a series of recordings as a bandleader on her Anzic Records label. Happy Song (Anzic), the debut album of the Anat Cohen Tentet, was released in 2017, followed by Live in Healdsburg, the debut duo recording of Cohen and Fred Hersch in 2018. In 2019, Cohen released three albums that received GRAMMY nominations: Triple Helix, Tentet’s second recording; Outra Coisa with Marcello Gonçalves; and Rosa Dos Ventos with Trio Brasileiro. She has also recorded four albums as part of the 3 Cohens Sextet with her brothers, saxophonist Yuval and trumpeter Avishai: One (2003), Braid (2007), Family (2011), and Tightrope (2013). Among her many awards and distinctions, Cohen was named Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007. In DownBeat, she was named top clarinetist in both the readers and critics polls for multiple years, Rising Star in the soprano https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-anat-cohen-quartetinho?e=076444d635 Page 3 of 7 Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM and tenor saxophone categories, and Jazz Artist of the Year. In 2009, she received the ASCAP Wall of Fame prize for composition and musicianship. Vitor Gonçalves vitorgoncalvesmusic.com Vitor Gonçalves is a pianist, accordionist, composer, and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an illustrious career in Brazil, playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Itiberê Zwarg, and many others, Gonçalves moved to New York City in 2012, where he currently resides. In addition to leading his own projects, Gonçalves collaborates with Anat Cohen, Vinícius Cantuária, Anthony Wilson, Cyro Baptista, and Yotam Silberstein, among others. Ensembles that he co-leads include SanfoNYa Brasileira and Regional de NY. Gonçalves performs regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, and The Jazz Gallery, and has played in jazz festivals and venues around the world, including Newport Jazz, Jazz à Vienne, Umbria Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal. He has been featured in NPR’s Jazz Night in America and The New York Times as a guest of Spok Frevo Orquestra. In 2017, Gonçalves released his debut album on Sunnyside Records, Vitor Gonçalves Quartet, featuring Dan Weiss (drums), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Todd Neufeld (guitar). He received two 2020 GRAMMY nominations, for Best Latin Jazz Album with Thalma de Freitas and for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album with Anat Cohen Tentet. Tal Mashiach Tal Mashiach is a multi-instrumental performer and composer, and a prominent young voice in the Israeli music scene. In 2015, at the age of 21, Mashiach moved to New York after receiving a full scholarship from The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Since then, he has performed and toured with artists including Avishai Cohen, Anat Cohen, Mulatu Astake, Jason Lindner, Ravi Coltrane, Marcus Gilmor, Roman Diaz, Shai Maestro, Gilad Hexelman, Nasheet Waits, among many others, at venues and festivals around the world including the Newport Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, New York’s SummerStage and Winter Jazzfest, Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University. In addition to his work as a sideman, Mashiach leads his own group https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-anat-cohen-quartetinho?e=076444d635 Page 4 of 7 Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM TM Street Band. Born in 1993 in Harashim, Israel, he began playing classical guitar at the age of 11 and won many prizes including first prize in the national competition for classical guitar at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance and the Excellence Scholarship of the America- Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF). In September 2011, Mashiach joined the Israeli Army program for excellent musicians. During that time, he started playing the double bass and studying classical music and jazz. From 2012 to 2014, he studied at The Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv where he played in the Representations Big Band conducted by Yuval Cohen. During his studies, he performed at the Rostov Jazz Festival in Russia with the Chosen Ensemble conducted by Gilad Ronen. Mashiach was awarded AICF grants for jazz and classical music between 2006–2016, with an excellence grant in 2008/09 (classical guitar) and in 2014/15 (double bass). James Shipp jamesshipp.com James Shipp is a sought-after Brazilian percussionist and a multi-instrumentalist in bands both mostly-improvised and tightly arranged, a composer of music for experimental theater, and a producer of recordings, bringing to bear his knowledge of both acoustic and analog electronic instruments to a wide range of projects. As a leader, Shipp has been performing his mostly satirical songs solo and with his band since 2016. He is a member of the MakeSpeak Ensemble, a collaborative trio that composes and performs music for dance and theater. Since 2012, he has performed as a duo with trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis; they released their first album, Indigo, to audiences at the Wangeratta Festival of Jazz & Blues in Victoria, Australia. Shipps’ band Nós Novo, founded in 2007, took improvisors’ ears to traditional Irish repertoire and released Strange Sweethearts in America in 2009. Shipp currently tours with the Anat Cohen Tentet, Jean Rohe & The End of the World Show, Banda Magda, Nadje Noordhuis Quintet, and Christina Courtin (Pilot Violet). He has recorded and performed with Paquito d’Rivera, Kurt Elling, Snarky Puppy, Bokante, Kate McGarry, Becca Stevens, Bob Lanzetti, Kronos Quartet, and Sting. Shipp has been a bandleader, composer, producer, and workshop facilitator for Carnegie Hall’s social impact programs for the last decade, working with thousands of people of all https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-anat-cohen-quartetinho?e=076444d635 Page 5 of 7 Miller Theatre's Jazz series presents the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, 3/7 2/10/20, 600 PM ages in prisons, jails, hospitals, shelters, and schools throughout New York City.