Vocalist, creator and educator born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Sabrina moved to Israel in 1999, and since 2005 she is living in New York. She was selected to participate in the Professional Training Workshop Monk on Monk: Vocal Works of Meredith Monk organized by The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, performing at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall in January 2006. She has played at the New York City Classical Guitar Society, Queen Sofia Institute, Martin E. Segal Theatre, Cornelia Street Cafe, and Blues Alley Jazz, among others.
She has performed with the Tali Roth Trio, Pablo Aslán, Fernando Otero, José Pedro Beledo, Jorge Camiruaga, Gustavo Casenave, Pedro Giraudo, Emilio Solla, David Silliman, Don Harris, and others. In 2006 Sabrina toured in Israel with Fernando Otero and Leo Roitman. In 2006 and 2007 she performed in Uruguay with Andrés Bedó, Roberto De Bellis, Jorge Trasante and Pablo Somma, presenting her project The Folds of the Soul, which was decalred of cultural interest by the uruguayan Ministry of Culture and Education.
This first solo album ─The Folds of the Soul─ was released in 2007 by the independent label Perro Andaluz. Sabrina was invited to sing her compositions based on the poems of Idea Vilariño, at the release of the book Idea Vilariño: La Vida Escrita. Lately the album has been nominated for the best jazz album of the year by the Graffiti Prize 2008 (best Uruguayan music).
In Israel Sabrina graduated from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance at the Jazz Department, where she studied with Robin Capsouto, Atalia Paniel, Iris Portugali, Jean Claude Jones and Slava Ganelin, among others. She also took part in the activities of the Movement Department at the Academy with dancers Anat Shamgar and Betty Shechter.
Sabrina was involved in projects playing Brazilian music, salsa, bolero, tango, Spanish music, contemporary music, and free improvisation with musicians and dancers. She has played with musicians Ora Boasson-Horev, Oleg Bogod, Giori Politi, Avi Berman, Dvir Katz, Yarden Eres, Gay Meir and Judy Lewis among many others. With these projects Sabrina played in festivals and venues as relevant as: Abu Gosh Vocal Festival (classical & world music), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Association Concerts, Master Class Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic at Jerusalem Music Centre, Kfar Blum Brazilian Music Festival, Jerusalem Prize (Jerusalem Municipality), Chemdat Yamim Festival (jazz & world music), Jerusalem Festival for the Arts, Rikudei Cheder Festival, Chutzot Ha-Yotzer and Chutzot Ha-yr festivals.
At Rimon School of Jazz & Contemporary Music, Milestone Club, Shablul Jazz, The Confederation House, Diaspora Museum of Tel Aviv, Mormons University, Bible Land Museum, Ha´Tavach Ha´Shvedi, Wise Auditorium, Felicja Blumental Music Center, and in cooperation with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among many others. In Jerusalem, she taught singing and voice production at Ron Shulamit Conservatory of Music and Dance, Keshet Conservatory of Music, High School of Arts, and at her own studio. She has worked in several performances with dancers, artists and musicians in Uruguay as well as in Israel, focusing in the relation among voice, text and movement.
In Montevideo Sabrina studied music theory and voice with Yolanda Pedemontti, Laura Baranzano and Jorge Schellemberg. She studied classical and contemporary dance with Ibis Longo, Ema Haberli, Contradanza, and Gustavo Collini (Argentina).
She was a member of several vocal groups, working in traditional jewish music, candombe, gospel and jazz styles, performing at Sala Verdi, Museo de Arte Precolombino, Agadu, Espacio de arte La Colmena, and Centro Cultural de España, among others. She was a soloist in the renowned Upsala Choir of Montevideo, and was involved in collective choreography creation, participating in interdisciplinary performances with dancers and poets in a variety of festivals: Poesia Joven Festival, Integrarte2 Bienal, Tododanza Festival and Insomnia Festival.
Calendar
Monday, September 6, 7:30 pm
Sabrina Lastman Quartet
Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., NY - http://www.joespub.com/
Tuesday, September 21, 7 pm
SoCorpo / On Becoming
The TANK, 354 W 45th St, NY - http://www.thetanknyc.org/
Wednesday, October 27, 8 pm
Dialogues of Silence
Rutgers University
Thursday, November 11, 8 pm
Vital Vox Festival
Issue Project Room, 232 Third St., Brooklyn, NY - http://www.issueprojectroom.org/
Projects
Sabrina Lastman Quartet
The Sabrina Lastman Quartet is an innovative jazz, South American (African roots & folklore traditions) and contemporary music project. It reflects the many influences that Sabrina has experienced while living in her home country Uruguay, in Israel, and more recently in New York. The Quartet plays original compositions, and arrangements of music by Latin American composers like Ruben Rada, and Egberto Gismonti, being some of her compositions inspired by the poetry of renowned South American writers. She brings those experiences – so far away from each other – to an artistic unity, showing that cultural bridges can be built. As a vocalist, Sabrina expands the possibilities of the voice, finding a rich variety of sonorities, colors, and textures. Sabrina sings in Spanish, English and Portuguese, keeping in each language a deep meaning of text and voice quality. The Quartet is formed by musicians: Emilio Solla (piano), Pablo Aslan (double bass), and David Silliman (drums & percussion).Tango Jazz Duo
The Tango Jazz Duo touches the boundaries of South American music, contemporary music and jazz, and plays original compositions by Sabrina Lastman, and interpretations of tango repertoire with pianist/composer Fernando Otero. A new sound that challenges traditional and modern Latin American music.Candombe Jazz Project
The Candombe Jazz Project presents oral tradition songs, new arrangement of songs composed by important figures of the Uruguayan music scene, and original compositions by Sabrina Lastman and Beledo. Candombe is a drum-based musical style of Uruguay, that has its origins in Africa Bantu traditions. The Candombe Project encompasses a range of styles among jazz, funk, rock, tango and experimental elements. Musicians: Beledo (guitar & piano), Don Harris (trumpet), Bakithi Kumalo (bass), Arturo Prendez (candombe drum), David Silliman (drums & percussion), Manuel Silva (candombe drum), and Agrupación Tambores Macú.Interdisciplinary Performances
On Becoming
On Becoming is an original music theatre work for two a cappella voices that unites and explores the boundaries between music, movement and theatre. This work explores the dimensions/dynamics of the self, and the perpetual capacity of transformation. Conception & compositions: Sasha Bogdanowitsch and Sabrina Lastman.
Dialogues of Silence is an interdisciplinary performance of voice, sound and movement. This new music theatre piece is based on the poetry and inner world perception of Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño. In this performance, Vilariño’s existentialist poetry meets music & sounds that create a world beyond the limits of the text’s power. Dialogues of Silence consists of a solo vocal artist who translates the poetic atmosphere into a dance and sound experience.
From the concert at El Museo del Barrio, with David Silliman, Pablo Aslán and Emilio Solla.
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