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Naomi Moon Siegel
An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel is committed to creating a positive, transformative music culture beyond conventional genre norms. Her original musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions and the sonorities of the natural world.
Siegel has been an innovative performer and recording artist since graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 2006. She explores the trombone as a vehicle for sonic expression colored by breath, spit, and physicality. As a composer and bandleader, Siegel has released two albums to critical acclaim. Her third album, “Shatter The Glass Sanctuary,” produced by Siegel and Allison Miller, is slated to come out in 2024, inspired by the theme of holding paradox in our troublesome and beautiful world.
A longtime collaborator with Wayne Horvitz, Siegel has performed with such luminaries as Jessica Lurie, Matthew Golombisky, Carmen Staaf, March Fourth Marching Band, Allison Miller, Julian Priester, The California Honeydrops, Martha Scanlan, Stuart Dempster, Skerik, and Thione Diop. With saxophonist Kate Olson, Siegel formed the folk punk jazz duo Syrinx Effect, which has released 4 albums and performed around the United States.Siegel is a recipient of Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus Grant, Jazz Journalists Association’s Jazz Hero Award, Montana Art Council’s Artist Innovation Award, and an Earshot Jazz’s Golden Ear Award for Emerging Artist of the Year. She was honored to be selected as a member ofMutual Mentorship for Musicians 4th cohort—a program started by Sara Serpa and Jen Shyu to empower and commission new compositions by historically underrepresented gender identities in music.
An adjunct professor of trombone at the University of Montana, Siegel is a dedicated music educator. She teaches guest artist clinics, private lessons, and is a faculty member at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Siegel is a staunch advocate for intersectional gender justice in jazz and music settings, leading workshops to build awareness and work towards positive systemic shifts in our music culture.
Awards
2023 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Hero Award
2022 ARPA Artist Grant Recipient from the Montana Arts Council
2022 Chamber Music America Performance Plus Grant
2019 Montana Arts Council Artist Innovation Award
2019 Inductee into the Missoula Blues & Jazz Society
2012 Earshot Jazz Emerging Artist of the Year Award
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Naomi Moon Siegel: Jeannine's Joy
by Scott Lichtman
When is the last time you heard an enthralling, pulsing jazz feel generated by a trombone-led horn section, a talking drum, cowbell, synth, an ethereal/African electric guitar, violin and rhythm section? For trombonist, composer and band leader Naomi Moon Siegel, such a blend of modern swing and world music sub-genres is her modus operandi. Siegel's vibe can best be described as “fluid;" for example, she opens with a mellow horn cadence in the studio version of “Jeannine's Joy," but swaps ...
Continue ReadingNaomi Moon Siegel Opens Up and Evolves
by Lawrence Peryer
The music of trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel captures both urban energy and rural spaciousness. Her formative years in Seattle's experimental jazz scene included collaborations with, and mentorship from, Wayne Horvitz and Julian Julian Priester. In 2016, she moved to Missoula, Montana--a decision that transformed her musical perspective and became the foundation of her newest work. Siegel's third album, Shatter The Glass Sanctuary (Slow & Steady Records), chronicles this period of transformation. With Allison Miller guiding the recording as ...
Continue ReadingTake Five With Trombonist-Composer Naomi Moon Siegel
by AAJ Staff
An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel is committed to creating a positive, transformative music culture beyond conventional genre norms. She has been an innovative performer and recording artist since graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 2006. Siegel kicked off her professional career on the West Coast in Oakland, California, and came of age as a composer and bandleader in Seattle's thriving improv scene. Siegel is a staunch advocate for intersectional gender justice in jazz and music settings, ...
Continue ReadingMeet Naomi Moon Siegel
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with composer-trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel. Currently living in Montana, Siegel's upcoming album is titled Shatter the Glass Sanctuary on Slow & Steady Records. It's due out on November 8, 2024. Playlist Kevin Sun “Outlawry" from Quartets (Endectomorph Music) 6:32 Matt Panayides “Ju Ju" from With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast Jazz) 6:49 Naomi Moon Siegel “Sabotage" from Shatter the Glass Sanctuary (Slow & Steady) 5:09 Naomi Moon Siegel “I. Holding All the Broken Pieces" ...
Continue ReadingNaomi Moon Siegel: Live at Earshot
by Paul Rauch
Trombonist and composer Naomi Moon Siegel burst onto the national scene through eight formative and enlightening years in Seattle. Steeped in the explorative jazz and improvised music scene there, she discovered her unique voice playing in projects such as Wayne Horvitz's Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, and the folk/jazz duo Syrinx Effect with saxophonist Kate Olson. In 2016 she released her debut album Shoebox View (self produced, 2016), showcasing her compositional talents as well as a trombone style ...
Continue ReadingNaomi Moon Siegel: Shoebox View
by Karl Ackermann
Seattle-based composer/trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel, is a member of Wayne Horvitz's Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and has performed with fellow trombonists Julian Priester and Wycliffe Gordon, among others, while maintaining a steady presence in the Northwest music scene. Not so coincidentally, Horvitz' appearance on five of the ten tracks recalls some of the pianist's pastoral tone on Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines Recordings, 2015).Produced on Siegel's own Break Open Records label, the original compositions on Shoebox ...
Continue ReadingNaomi Moon Siegel: Shoebox View
by Dan McClenaghan
Trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel represents the new breed of jazz artists, the ones who have to make it all happen themselves. In lieu of an established record label, the words “Self Produced" say it all. And while the ability and relative affordability of putting out a CD that is self funded--or fan direct funded--certainly eliminates a necessary culling process of artists who aren't quite ready to make this jump, Shoebox View, Siegel's marvelous debut, is one that the record companies ...
Continue ReadingCelebrated Composer-Trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel Releases Shatter The Glass Sanctuary On Slow & Steady Records
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AMT Public Relations
Available at Slow & Steady Records and Bandcamp. Trailblazing composer-trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel has announced the Nov. 8 release of her third album Shatter The Glass Sanctuary (#BOR-110), a collection of adventurous original works that chronicles her adjustment to small-town living in Missoula, Montana, after residing for many years in Seattle, Washington. The music follows her inward journey of emotional highs and lows, propelled ever forward by a stellar sextet of acclaimed Seattle musicians including pianist Marina Albero, guitarist Andy ...
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"Live at Earshot is introspective and celebratory, intimate and comprehensive. It is a declaration of purpose and an expressive jazz documentation. Live at Earshot is the sound of an artist making music with an individual style and noticeable creativity". — Audiophile Audition/ Doug Simpson
"This live recording might change the way you think about jazz trombone. Naomi Moon Siegel.... writes dreamy tunes that pack a punch and owe little to any easily identifiable idiom— not bebop, not fusion, not free jazz." —Absolute Sound / Derk Richardson
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Naomi Moon Siegel
Instrument: Trombone
Born: August 18, 1984
Publicist: AMT Public Relations
