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Jazz artist Anat Cohen will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in Williams Center for the Arts. The concert will be the final performance in the 2009-10 Jazz Masters series.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $18 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009. Cohen will give a pre-performance talk at 7 p.m. in the Williams Center room 108.
An Israeli-born clarinetist/saxophonist, Cohen arrived on the New York jazz scene in 1999 in full stride. With an artistic palette extending from Brazilian choro and Afro-Cuban tunes to Middle Eastern rhythmic figures, Cohen combines traditional jazz with an intoxicating array of world music. Her most recent recording, Notes from the Village, captures the thrilling energy of her live shows with pianist Jason Lindner, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer Daniel Freedman.
According to The Washington Post, “Cohen has emerged as one of the brightest, most original young instrumentalists in jazz, expanding the vocabulary of jazz with a distinctive accent of her own.”
This performance is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters grant administered by the Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. The 2009-2010 Jazz Masters series at the Williams Center is supported by an NEA grant.
The 2009-10 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for its extraordinary support.