Results for "Sara Bielanski"

Sara Bielanski

Sara Bielanski is a versatile American vocalist whose varied repertoire encompasses jazz, gospel, R&B, opera and art song, and improvisation. Her voice has been described by critics as "resplendent", and her contemporary interpretations as "unforgettable", "the real thing", and "mystifying and beautiful" (artfuse.org, 2012). An avid jazz musician, Sara has performed with legends Sheila Jordan, Ra-Kalam Bob Moses, Rufus Reid, Jim McNeely, Stan Strickland, and Peter Cassino, and had the distinct pleasure of studying with the late Charlie Banacos. Bielanski studied at the esteemed Jazz in July program at UMass Amherst, as well as the Lake Placid Jazz Institute in upstate New York

Sara Bielanski: From the Heart

by Tyran Grillo
March 11, 2017

Vocalist Sara Bielanski's debut album is heartfelt in the most descriptive sense possible for being inspired by the open-heart surgery that saved her life in 2011. Bielanski, who comes from a classical background yet has always nurtured a love for jazz standards, decided it was time to let that love shine in the studio, and the ...

From the Heart

By Sara Bielanski

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Night Lights; Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise; Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year; East of the Sun (And West of the Moon); Sweet Georgia Brown; So Many Stars; Scars (Bielanski); Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love).

Sara Bielanski: From the Heart

by Victor L. Schermer
December 20, 2016

This is vocalist Sara Bielanski's debut album, and for it she brought together a group of fine musicians with connections to the Berklee School of Music and The New England Conservatory, institutions where for well over more than a half-century many of our most outstanding players have gotten their jump start. Bielanski herself is a fine ...