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Ester Wiesnerova
Recently, Ester was named in Forbes' 30 under 30 list, and awarded the Best Newcomer of the Year award in the New Faces of Slovak Jazz competition. An accomplished composer, she was invited to perform her original music at venues such as Flagey Hall in Brussels, Wuhan Concert Hall in China, The Piano Man in New Delhi, and Smalls Jazz Club in New York City. As a vocalist, she has been featured onstage with Lionel Richie, Dave Holland, and Luciana Souza. Her original compositions have been performed at prestigious festivals worldwide such as Panama Jazz Festival, Guatemala Jazz Festival and EUROJAZZ in Mexico.
A passionate music educator, Ester has led numerous workshops and presentations in South East Asia, the US, and South Africa, and was a collegiate faculty member of the Global Music Institute in India. She also founded “Music Beyond Borders”, a jazz and contemporary music education non-profit in Slovakia which has served over 100 Slovakian students in just three years.
Ester received her graduate degree in Jazz Composition with Music in Education concentration at New England Conservatory and her undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance at the Berklee College of Music.
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Ester Wiesnerova: Blue Journal
by Richard J Salvucci
By any standard, this is a remarkable production. Ester Wiesnerova's debut recording, long in the making, reminds one of Joni Mitchell or Holly Near, although her music is not really music of social protest, but meditations on identity. Since some of it is in Slovak, a language not accessible to a nonspeaker, a listener takes it at face value, purely as music. Wiesernerova's compositions and arrangements are nothing if not striking, especially when framed by percussion, harp, bass and saxophone, ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Sometimes, catching the eye can be as important as catching the ear, at least in the beginning. Slovakian singer and composer Ester Wiesnerova definitely catches the eye with her debut release, Blue Journal. Inside a plain brown cardboard box is something of a tactile, as well as visual, treat:--a book covered in rich blue felt, full of photographs and song lyrics, held closed by a loop of black elastic and decorated solely by the title and artist's name written on ...
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