Jazz: Noa Fort Quartet

Name: Jazz: Noa Fort Quartet
Start: 2024-12-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 E Main St, Waterbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06702

Schedule

Fri Dec 13 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

100 E Main St, Waterbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06702 | Waterbury, CT

Vocalist, pianist, composer, and music therapist Noa Fort is blurring the lines between written and composed, group and individual, inner and outer soundscape, giving and receiving; all on the path to healing, with music.
After a short stint as a biologist, researching bird migration in the desert, Fort decided to go back to her first love, music and pursued a degree in Music Performance (first for voice, then for piano) at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She became involved in the music scene in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, leading a Jazz quintet as well as working as a side woman for several bands and projects. She also started volunteering with teenagers with special needs, and slowly realized what she’d always known — that music can be used for more than self-expression; it can be used to create a connection where words fail, a path to healing, and a terrain to explore the self in relation to others.
While at school, Fort formed a trio, which later became the Noa Fort Quartet. The group developed a unique, cohesive, exploratory, and fresh sound, playing frequently at noted venues Cornelia Street Cafe and Rockwood Music Hall. Aside from her work as a leader, Fort started collaborating and performing with greats such as William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ken Filiano, Francisco Mela, Michael Attias, Satoshi Takeishi, Mary Prescott, and Simon Jermyn, among others.
In 2018 Fort released her debut album as a bandleader and composer, No World Between Us. Critically acclaimed, its release led to bookings at the DC Jazz Festival and BRIC Jazz Festival. All About Jazz called it “an album of comforting originality on all fronts…lyrics brimming with timeless themes.”
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