Megan Schubert - voice
TZ - accordion
Akiko Pavolka - piano/voice
DoYeon Kim - gayageum

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Megan Schubert, vocalist and composer, has performed with robots while locked inside a giant Van de Graaff Generator; the role of Jane Jacobs in A Marvelous Order; for inmates at Sing Sing; for Elliot Carter celebrating his 100th birthday; in Jazztopad and Berlinerfestspiele; in the film opera River of Fundament.

Akiko Pavolka is a New York-based musician, composer and bandleader who’s strikingly original music blends pop and jazz with the music and sensibilities of her native Japan. She has been performing in New York since 1995 and also Europe, South America, and Japan. She has released six recordings and is preparing a seventh.

TZ From barely audible noises, quiet beatings, the breathing of the bellows to massive, full sounds and nervous, angular sounds, everything can be found in the energetic playing of the accordionist. Improvisationally she illuminates her instrument from different sides. Sometimes the sounds stand naked in space, sometimes they are superimposed and layered until it sounds orchestral. She juxtaposes economy with abundance and control with loss of control.

DoYeon Kim is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning virtuoso of the gayageum (a
traditional Korean string instrument). In addition to traditional Korean music, DoYeon specializes in free jazz, jazz, and improvisation. She regularly performs solo and group concerts worldwide in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. As a graduate of the New England Conservatory, and protégé of the world’s leading gayageum master Yi Jiyoung, DoYeon has performed alongside many distinguished improvisors, including Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez, Tony Malaby and Tyshawn Sorey. Her 2017 album Gapi was nominated for a Korean Grammy award, and her latest album Macrocosm, with Joe Morris, received international critical acclaim, and Grammy.com recognized her as one of 7 Musicians Pushing Ancient Asian Instruments Into The Future (2021). DoYeon’s approach to playing the gayageum, as well as improvised music, is a singularly unique experience.