Anna Webber Residency Concert
Saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber, whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music, has been widely heralded for her “visionary and captivating” music (Wall Street Journal). A Guggenheim Award-winning composer who was recently appointed NEC Jazz Studies Co-Chair, Webber has released numerous critically acclaimed albums. This concert is the culmination of her NEC residency, and Webber will perform with NEC students she has coached, as well as with her Simple Trio featuring pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer John Hollenbeck.
All music on tonight's program was composed by Anna Webber.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live
Music for Quartet
Walking Piece
Bonus Oats
I Don't Want to be Happy
Good Cauliflower
PunctuationArtists- Anna Webber, flute, tenor saxophone
- Kai Burns, guitar
- Itay Goldstein, bass
- Noah Mark, drums
Music for Septet
Loper
Idiom II
ArrayArtists- Anna Webber, flute, tenor saxophone
- Shota Renwick, clarinet, tenor saxophone
- Josh Gagnon, trombone
- Hidemi Akaiwa, piano
- Evan Haskin, guitar
- Nick Isherwood, bass
- Dominic Vance, drums
Music for Trio
Slingshot
Mire
Foray
Idiom VII
Untitled
Moveable DoSimple Trio
Anna Webber has been working with her Simple Trio since 2013. The trio features bandmates John Hollenbeck on drums and Matt Mitchell on piano. The music of the Simple Trio highlights what The New York Times called the “range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation” in songs that feel like living things and lead the audience in different directions on each listen. Their third album, Idiom, was released to significant critical acclaim in 2021, following on the heels of two albums on Skirl Records: Binary (2016) and SIMPLE (2014).
Ensembles- Simple Trio
Artists- Anna Webber, flute, bass flute, tenor saxophone
- Matt Mitchell, piano
- John Hollenbeck, drums