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Jody Redhage

Called an “adventurous cello songstress” (Time Out New York), cellist, composer, and vocalist Jody Redhage's dual passions for chamber music and new music have led her to participate in an array of cutting-edge projects. Praised for her “exceptional technical command,” (Steve Smith, Night After Night), Jody has premiered over 100 works, including many of her own compositions for chamber ensembles, as well as premieres of fellow composers' works. Jody has also spent the past seven years developing the ability to simultaneously sing and play complex, rhythmically intricate and independent musical lines. As recipient of the 2005 Hertz Grant, Jody was able to develop this project by commissioning a repertoire of 21st century art song for voice, cello, and electronics from some of today’s most talented emerging composers. Her debut CD on New Amsterdam Records (www.newamsterdamrecords.com), All Summer in a Day, has been called “a freewheeling, slightly edgy and altogether "different" kind of musical experience…highly rewarding and worthwhile” (Dave Lewis, All Music Guide).

Jody graduated with her master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in May 2005, and she now resides in Brooklyn. Her interest in a wide variety of musical genres has led her to regularly perform with classical, jazz, rock, and pop groups in New York City and throughout North America. Jody has worked with composers Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Julia Wolfe and additional notable collaborations include performances with members of the Bang on a Can All- Stars, the Flux Quartet, Sequitur, Tactus Contemporary Ensemble, Neil Diamond and band, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Meatloaf, the Roots, Clay Aiken, Enya, Duncan Sheik, Guster, and Sufjan Stevens. Jody has appeared on TV playing on ABC's The View, the CBS Early Show, and NBC's The Today Show, Conan O’Brien, and the Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular. Her own compositions and music from her CD have been aired on several NPR stations, including WNYC's Evening Music and WFMU.

Jody’s original compositions are featured in her indie art song band, Fire in July. The group melds the sensitivity, detail and precision of art song and chamber music with the drive, intensity, and energy of pop, rock, and jazz improvisation. The multi-talented members of Fire in July are Jody on voice/cello, Ken Thomson on clarinet/bass clarinet; Alan Ferber on trombones; Dan Tepfer on piano; and Fred Kennedy on drums/percussion. Fire in July will be recording their first studio record in January 2009. Please visit www.jodyredhage.com for a list of upcoming performances, and listen to Fire in July at www.myspace.com/fireinjuly.

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Jody Redhage "Adventurous cello songstress" (Time Out NY) comes to Boston July 23

Jody Redhage "Adventurous cello songstress" (Time Out NY) comes to Boston July 23

Source: Michaella Holden

JODY REDHAGE & FIRE IN JULY PERFORM IN BOSTON Innovative Song Cycle Explores Spirituality, Nature, and Gardening New York City based cellist, vocalist and composer Jody Redhage and her band Fire in July will perform at Boston's Kaji Aso Studio (www.kajiasostudio.com) on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8 pm. Admission is $10. Kaji Aso Studio is located at 40 Saint Stephen Street in Boston, MA. Phone is (617) 247-1719. Fire in July is comprised of Jody Redhage, voice & cello; ...

"Wow, wow, wow! Give this woman a cello and stand back!" - Cello City Ink

"Adventurous cello songstress" -Time Out NY

"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

“Exceptional technical command” (Night After Night)

“a freewheeling, slightly edgy and altogether "different" kind of musical experience…highly rewarding and worthwhile” (Uncle Dave Lewis, All Music Guide)

Primary Instrument

Cello

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Jody Redhage, a passionate proponent of creative music, teaches intermediate and advanced cello lessons, as well as adventurous skills such as singing and playing at the same time, composition, and improvisation. Redhage coaches chamber music at Elm City Chamber Fest in New Haven, CT, and at Lyra Summer Music in Randolph, VT. Redhage also leads workshops on simultaneoulys singing and playing, and on electro-acoustic performance.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Introspection

You&Me Music
2023

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Falling

Tiger Turn Productions
2022

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Breath By Breath

Palmetto Records
2022

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Dime Dancing: The...

Shifting Paradigm Records
2020

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Of Minutiae and Memory

New Amsterdam Records
2011

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Mr. Weird

From: Introspection
By Jody Redhage

Narcissism

From: Introspection
By Jody Redhage

Orpheus

From: Falling
By Jody Redhage

Sisyphus

From: Falling
By Jody Redhage

Let's Fall

From: Falling
By Jody Redhage

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