✦ Special guest — live Q&A
Anat Cohen
Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds around the globe with her expressive virtuosity and magnetic stage presence, earning esteem both as a musician's musician and as a performer who charms new recruits to the jazz art like few others. With her acclaimed albums, sold-out world tours and Grammy Award nominations adding up over the past two and a half decades, and glowing profiles from NPR's Fresh Air and The New York Times, the Brooklyn-based Anat has evolved into one of the music's great border-bounding leaders, as not only an artist but as an educator, an ambassador. At the core is always her jubilant, ever-exploratory music-making, as a soloist, bandleader, collaborator and composer.
“Anat does what all authentic musicians do: She tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listeners to their own dreams, desires and longings.” — Nat Hentoff