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Vena

Vena is an American professional violinist and teaching artist with a passion for collaborative music and performance art. After studying, teaching, and freelancing in the greater-Philadelphia region for 10 years, Vena set off to travel the world with her violin. Her travels have almost always intersected with her passion for music performance, bringing her to Italy, Ireland, the Middle East, Nepal, India, China, and Japan, where she currently resides.

Albert Marquès / Rachel Therrien: Dialogue (Vol. I & II)

by Artur Moral
January 30, 2026

Except for the most radically experimental music, in a jazz context increasingly dominated by written scores that leave little room for improvisation, the appearance of a musical diptych centered on the latter is undoubtedly most welcome. This applies both to individual discourse and to creation shared simultaneously by various performers. Granted, many listeners may be absolutely ...

Vena

By Rachel Therrien

Label: Bon SaiMusic
Released: 2020
Track listing: Folks Jam; V for Vena; Parity; Pigalle; 75 Pages of Happiness; Assata; Bilka's Story; Emilio; Women; Synchronicity; This Isn't Love; Bleu Tortue; Migration; Folk Tube.

Rachel Therrien: Vena

by Mike Jurkovic
April 6, 2020

A hot organ intro accompanies the simple, fifty-two second, folk-dance breeze of “Folks Jam" before sweeping you into the grander, ballroom dance that is “V for Vena." It's an alluring intro to trumpeter/flugelhornist Rachel Therrien's fifth album as a leader. You quickly hear the beauty of Therrien's playing: there's no need to nerdily testify ...