Drawing from jazz, Latin American, and contemporary music, often integrating extended vocal techniques, vocalist, performer, and composer Sabrina Lastman is described as “perennially eclectic and innovative” and as an artist who “embraces the audience with the sweetness of her voice,” Sabrina works in the areas of jazz and world music, and creates and performs interdisciplinary new music projects incorporating voice, sound, movement, and visuals.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sabrina has toured internationally and performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Blue Note, Joe's Pub, La Mama, Blues Alley Jazz, ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, Juilliard, New York University, Yale University, Rutgers University, Le Poisson Rouge, Harvard University, City University of New York, and Classical Guitar Association of New York, among others.
She has played with musicians such as Fernando Otero (Grammy Award Winner), Bakithi Kumalo, Tali Roth, Pablo Aslan (Grammy Award Nominated), Emilio Solla, Pedro Giraudo, Alexis Cuadrado, David Silliman, The M6, Philip Hamilton, and Leonardo Suarez-Paz. Her album "The Folds of the Soul" was nominated by the Graffiti Award 2008 as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and it was considered of cultural interest by the Ministry of Culture and Education in Uruguay.
Sabrina was awarded grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) & New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She is the co-artistic director ofVital Vox: A Vocal Festival that explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. Sabrina graduated from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel. www.sabrina-lastman.com
Her latest solo album The Candombe Jazz Sessions (ZOHO Music, 2012) with the Sabrina Lastman Quartet: Sabrina Lastman (voice/songs), Emilio Solla (piano/arrangements), Pablo Aslan (double bass), David Silliman (drums/percussions). Special guests: Alexander Norris (trumpet), Meg Okura (violin), Dave Eggar (cello), Ernesto Villa-Lobos (violin), Daphna Mor (recorders), Arturo Prendez (Candombe drum piano), Manuel Silva (Candombe drum repique) and Fabricio Teodoro (Candombe drum chico).
SABRINA LASTMAN QUINTET
METROPOLITAN ROOM
Friday, November 8, 2013 | 9:30 PM
34 West 22 Street, New York, NY 10010
Sabrina Lastman (voice & compositions)
Emilio Solla (piano & arrangements)
Edward Perez (double bass)
David Silliman (drums & percussions)
Meg Okura (violin)
Very Special Guest:
Fernando Otero
(piano, Grammy Award Winner)
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