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Jody Redhage Ferber
Jody Redhage Ferber, passionate advocate of creative new music and chamber music, is a "a new music dynamo...Redhage is cultivating a growing repertoire of indie art song that breaches genre boundaries and makes for stirring listening" (MusicWorks magazine). Praised for her “exceptional technical command,” (Steve Smith, Night After Night), Redhage Ferber has premiered over 100 works, including almost 30 that she has commissioned for her voice, cello, and electronics from some of today's most talented composers. An active composer herself, she writes mainly for chamber jazz ensemble Rose & the Nightingale, and co-arranges and performs new repertoire for the unique instrumentation of cello/voice, trombone, & drums/percussion with her husband, Grammy-nominated trombonist and composer Alan Ferber, and his twin, drummer Mark Ferber. As a multi-style cellist, Redhage Ferber is a busy recording session player and a mainstay performer on several groundbreaking scenes, contributing to the ever-increasing 21st century blur of musical boundary lines.
AS A MULTISTYLE CELLIST
Although classically-trained, with studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of California Berkeley, and the Manhattan School of Music, Redhage Ferber began playing nonclassical styles as a teenager. When she settled in New York City in 2003, her adventurous and open nature led to musical exploration across a spectrum of styles, and Redhage Ferber quickly garnered attention as an "Adventurous cello songstress (Time Out NY)," commissioning new solo works for her voice, cello, and electronics, and is hired as a double-threat cellist & backing vocalist for pop and jazz artists. Redhage Ferber has performed on five continents in venues including Carnegie Hall (Stern and Weill Halls), Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Merkin Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music opera house, the Whitney Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits. The Ferber Duo recently premiered their own chamber jazz-inflected arrangement of the C Major Bach Suite at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in March 2020. From 2010 to 2015, Redhage Ferber toured with Best New Artist Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding's Chamber Music Society, performing worldwide at the Montreal, North Sea, Montreux, Cape Town South Africa, San Francisco, and Portland Jazz Festivals, and in the Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Halls in London, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, a week-long residency at Tokyo's Blue Note Jazz Club, a week at the Village Vanguard, on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Series, and for Holland and France's NPR stations. She has performed and recorded with jazz luminaries Fred Hersch, Ron Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Andy Milne, and the New York Voices, with new music luminaries George Crumb, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Lois V. Vierk, and Julia Wolfe, and with pop icons Neil Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Meatloaf, the Roots, Clay Aiken, Enya, Duncan Sheik, Guster, Hem, My Brightest Diamond, Fall Out Boy, Chromeo, and Sara Bareilles, among others. Jody has appeared on TV playing on ABC's The View, the CBS Early Show, NBC's The Today Show, the Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular, Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and BET's Mo'NiqueShow. She has recorded for Sesame Street, and on many albums, commercials, and films, and can be heard on the soundtrack of HBO documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.
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