Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Clara Kennedy - guitar/cello/voice
Samantha Kochis - flute
Kyoko Kitamura - voice/piano

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Korean-Canadian now American improvising vocalist and pianist, Yoon Sun Choi has been based in New York City since 2000. Her main musical projects are with her longtime collaborative duo with pianist Jacob Sacks and her solo voice/piano work. `Choi has performed and collaborated with renown artists such as Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Steve Coleman, Mark Dresser, Mark Elias, Gerry Hemmingway, Darius Jones, D.D. Jackson, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Sarah Weaver, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. She has performed in some of the finest concert houses and music venues including The Blue Note, Birdland, The Stone, Roulette, The River Theater, Roy Thompson Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Juilliard-grad and multi-instrumentalist Clara Kennedy plays cello, guitar and sings. She has performed in venues such as The Bowery Ballroom, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, MoMA and Carnegie Hall. As a singer & guitar player she has performed extensively throughout the city - from regular Saturday nights at Mexican restaurants to opening for Goldfrapp at The Beacon Theater. She held the cello/guitar chairs on the Broadway musicals Groundhog Day and Kimberly Akimbo.

“Samantha Kochis is a Brooklyn-based flutist, improvisor, and composer who explores various creative environments as an artist of experimental music. In her creative works, Samantha draws from the tradition of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation to engage sonic conversations with listeners and collaborators alike. Samantha is the co-founder of “Phonotonic”, an artist collective dedicated to building community among experimental and improvising artists who share the experience of gender-based oppression.”

Kyoko Kitamura is a Brooklyn-based vocal improviser, composer, multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She co-leads the quartet Geometry with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, guitarist Joe Morris and cellist Tomeka Reid, as well as the trio Siren Xypher with violist Melanie Dyer and pianist Mara Rosenbloom. For over a decade, Kitamura collaborated extensively with composer Anthony Braxton, and is the creator of the documentary Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music which DownBeat Magazine calls “an invaluable resource for Braxton-philes." Multidisciplinary credits include Matthew Barney’s Secondary, Audra Wolowiec‘s (waves) and choreographer Rachel Bernsen’s Novel Formats. Kitamura is a visiting faculty at Bennington College.