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Lisa
Sokolov is a frontline New York jazz vocalist, improvisor
and composer. Her work embraces the best of new music,
free and straight ahead jazz. Her recording angel Rodeo
received Best CD of the Year from Cadence Magazine and
her newest CD Lazy Afternoon is receiving extensive radio
play in The US and Europe and press kudos.
Her own studies began as a classical pianist and singer
with conservatory prep education and traditional musical
training. Her intrigue with the music of John Coltrane
led her to search out Coltrane's bassist Jimmy Garrison
at Bennington College in Vermont. Choosing this school,
she found herself able to study with trumpeter Bill Dixon,
saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, and drummer Milford Graves, as
well as composers Vivian Fine and Louis Calabro.
Arriving on the New York scene in 1977, Lisa began collaborating
with bassist William Parker. This collaboration has continued
now for 22 years. These years also included working in
trio with singers Ellen Christie and Jeanne Lee. Lisa
also was heard regularly with pianists Wayne Horvitz and
Robin Holcomb in the days of Studio Henry. Indeed over
the years she has worked with many new music and jazz
notables including Rashid Ali, Badal Roy, Andrew Cyrille,
Mark Dresser, Jimmy Lyons, Irene Schweitzer, Steve McCall,
Butch Morris, Gerry Hemingway, Didi Jackson, Blue "Gene"
Tyranny, Hilton Ruiz, Mike Richmond, Don Cherry and Jim
McNeely.
Her performances include solos, duos, quartets, big bands,
(she is a regular in William Parker's Little Huey Orchestra
and appeared on his latest CD and Walter Thompsons Big
Band), and her own Voice/Movement/Theater work and choral
works. She has been heard at the Montreaux Jazz Festival,
the Spoleto Festival, the Kool Jazz Festival. The Knitting
Factory, the Baltic Scandal Festival, The Bottom Line,
Alice Tully Hall, Synphony Space and many other venues.
Lisa has recorded on Soul Note, Uneet, Aum and Laughing
Horse Records. Her CD angel Rodeo featuring her quartet
with David Gonzalez, Badal Roy and Mike Richmond received
rave national press, Best CD of the Year from Cadence
magazine and extensive radio play. 1999 brings Lisa.s
latest recording Lazy Afternoon onto the scene with a
great critcal response and a new level of refinement in
her material. Lisa is now in the studio again, recording
her compositors for large choral ensemble and doing preproduction
work on her latest performance/poetry project.
As a teacher of voice and improvisation, Lisa is a Master
Teacher and Head of the Voice Faculty of The Experimental
Theater Wing at New York University, Tisch School of the
Arts since 1985. She was also a longtime faculty of The
Graduate Program of Music Therapy at NYU . Ms. Sokolov
is invited internationally to perform, teach workshops
and master classes in her vocal techniques to artists,
therapists, physicians and people just wanting to contact,
connect and sing. Her performance and vocal techniques
have been written up in magazines, newspapers and in educational
texts on improvisation.
Lisa is also acknowledged for her contribution to the
field of Music Therapy in her trainings, work and writing
on the wider application of the role of voice in this
culture. She is the Director of The Institute for Embodied
VoiceWork in New York where she trains post graduate music
therapists and is often the keynote speaker at conferences,
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