2026 Music Masters Jazz Concert

Presented by East End Arts Council and sponsored by avid music enthusiasts Harlan and Olivia Fischer, the Music Masters Intensive program continues to be a tuition-free program offering a unique, in-depth learning experience for young local musicians while expanding its focus to explore a variety of genres each year.

Proceeds from concert ticket sales support the East End Arts Council music scholarship fund. Youth under the age of 18 are free. Additional donations are appreciated.

The 2026 Music Master is Olivia Foschi, accompanied by Bill Smith. Italo-American jazz singer and composer Olivia Foschi discovered her passion for jazz while studying guitar and music theory in high school. In 2001 she was given the opportunity to study classical Neapli voice with singer and composer Aavaas in Kathmandu and shifted her approach to vocals paying paticular attention to color and rhythm. After obtaining a degree in English Literature, Olivia went on to study jazz voice at the University of Music in Rome and subsequently pursued undergraduate studies in Jazz Performance through Middlesex University at the Music Academy in Bologna.

With three albums to her credit, and several others as a featured artist, her latest release “A Window Within” (2024) has gained international recognition and cemented her place in the jazz world. Olivia consistently weaves together the rich tapestries of her multicultural upbringing with her profound passion for jazz. She is described as “an artist with an elegant style and distinct musical vision” by Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz, and ‘truly original and far from the norm as a composer and as a vocalist” by H. Allen Williams, Jazz Times.

Olivia has performed in festivals and on major stages throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, sharing the stage with esteemed muscians including Gill Goldstein, Thruman Barker, Ulysses Owens Jr., Gregoire Maret, Chris White, Jr., Joseph Jarman, Alex Sipiagin, Helio Alves, Tommy Campbell, Bill O’Connell, and Yotam Silberstein, among many others. For more information please visit: www.oliviafoschi.com

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