Performances + Events
Anna Webber
Education and Training
BA, McGill University; MM, Manhattan School of Music; MM, Jazz Institute at Berlin’s Universität der Künste.
Awards and Recognition
Margaret Whitton Award from the Jazz Gallery NYC, 2022
Igna Maren Otto Fellowship in Music Composition; American Academy Berlin, 2021
Top of the “Rising Star – Flute” Category; Critic’s Poll, Downbeat Magazine, 2020
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018
Charlie Parker Award; BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, 2014
#6 Best Album of 2019 in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll
Berlin Prize Fellow, 2021
“Rising Star” flutist in the 2020 Downbeat Critic’s Poll
Featured Links
Internationally Acclaimed Flutist, Saxophonist and Composer Anna Webber Appointed Co-Chair of NEC's Jazz Studies Department Webber/Morris Big Band: Pulse at Roulette Anna Webber's Simple Trio and Idiom VI at Roulette Twenty Questions - Anna Webber Interview Jazz Speaks - Anna Webber Interview Anna Webber on Wikipedia Shimmer Wince Review by Peter Margasak New York Times Best Jazz Albums of 2020The band featured on Shimmer Wince is a new group, consisting of Adam O’Farrill on trumpet, Mariel Roberts on cello, Elias Stemeseder on synthesizer, and Lesley Mok on drums. A prolific bandleader, Webber also has been working with her Simple Trio, featuring John Hollenbeck and Matt Mitchell, for over a decade, as well as leading many other groups, such as a large ensemble, a septet, and the afore-mentioned big band. She has performed and/or recorded with projects led by artists such as Dan Weiss, Roscoe Mitchell, Ranja Swaminathan, Jen Shyu, Dave Douglas, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, John Hollenbeck, and Trevor Dunn, among others.
Grants from the Copland Fund (2021 & 2019), the Shifting Foundation (2015), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2017), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts; and residencies from Exploring the Metropolis (2019), the MacDowell Colony (2017 & 2020), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2015), and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2014). Webber is originally from British Columbia.
Curriculum Vitae
BA, McGill University; MM, Manhattan School of Music; MM, Jazz Institute at Berlin’s Universität der Künste.
- Margaret Whitton Award from the Jazz Gallery NYC, 2022
- Igna Maren Otto Fellowship in Music Composition; American Academy Berlin, 2021
- Top of the “Rising Star – Flute” Category; Critic’s Poll, Downbeat Magazine, 2020
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018
- Charlie Parker Award; BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, 2014
- #6 Best Album of 2019 in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll
- Berlin Prize Fellow, 2021
- “Rising Star” flutist in the 2020 Downbeat Critic’s Poll
- Internationally Acclaimed Flutist, Saxophonist and Composer Anna Webber Appointed Co-Chair of NEC's Jazz Studies Department
- Webber/Morris Big Band: Pulse at Roulette
- Anna Webber's Simple Trio and Idiom VI at Roulette
- Twenty Questions - Anna Webber Interview
- Jazz Speaks - Anna Webber Interview
- Anna Webber on Wikipedia
- Shimmer Wince Review by Peter Margasak
- New York Times Best Jazz Albums of 2020
Affiliated Departments and Programs
Jazz Studies
