Photo Credit: Liz Kosack

Anna Webber (saxophone & flutes); Jeremy Viner (tenor saxophone & clarinet); Jacob Garchik (trombone); Christopher Hoffman (cello); Matt Mitchell (piano); Chris Tordini (bass); and Kate Gentile (drums & vibes)

Firehouse 12 is pleased to present saxophonist, flutist, and composer Anna Webber and her septet as they celebrate the release of their latest album, Clockwise on Pi Recordings. The ensemble features many of the most interesting improvisors currently working in Brooklyn’s creative avant-garde jazz scene: Jeremy Viner on clarinet and tenor sax, Jacob Garchik on trombone, Chris Hoffman on cello, Matt Mitchell on piano, Chris Tordini on bass, Kate Gentile on drums (Ches Smith on the recording), and Webber herself on flute, bass flute, alto flute, and tenor saxophone.

Webber has been called “one of the most exciting new arrivals on the New York avant-garde jazz scene” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader). "Clockwise is an exceptional, ever-adventurous outing from an artist whose stylistic shifting knows no bounds" (Brad Cohan, JazzTimes). "For her latest album, Webber assembled a band of like-minded jazz explorers...to pay tribute to the percussion-centric works of composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and Edgard Varése. The results can conjure a swirling storm, but as the songs lock into place and occasionally blow apart, Webber leads each singular, shape-shifting structure forward" (Chris Barton, The Los Angeles Times).

Anna Webber is a New York-based flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live the overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Webber’s other projects include her Simple Trio, with John Hollenbeck and Matt Mitchell, and a big band co-led with Angela Morris. She has performed and/or recorded with projects led by artists such as Dan Weiss, Jen Shyu, Dave Douglas, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith, John Hollenbeck, and Geof Bradfield, among others. Webber is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. She has additionally been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation (2015) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (2017), and residencies from Exploring the Metropolis (2019), MacDowell Colony (2017), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2015), and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2014). In 2014 she won the BMI Foundation Charlie Parker Composition Prize as a member of the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop. Webber is originally from British Columbia.

Find out more about Anna Webber here: http://annakristinwebber.com/