Yuzuha O'Halloran Trio Special Guest Jenna Harris

Join us to celebrate International Jazz Day 2024 and the return of our LIVE podcast series at a

brand new location: The Cellar at The Workman's Club!We kick off the evening with a live

podcast featuring headline Yuzuha O'Halloran, hosted by IWIJ founder Jennifer McMahon. We

open the music portion of the night with a solo performance by special guest Jenna Harris,

warming the crown up before Yuzuha and her Trio take to the Cellar stage, featuring Eoin

O'Halloran on bass and Hugh Denman on drums.

Yuzuha O'Halloran

Following her graduation from Newpark Music Centre with a BA in Jazz peformance, Yuzuha

has become an active part of the Irish Jazz and Contemporary Music scene and has

performed in venues and festivals all over the country with many of Ireland’s top musicians

and groups. These inculde Conor Guilfoyle, Max Zaska, Denise Chaila, Inni-K, Izumi Kimura,

Tommy Halferty, Glasshouse Ensemble and more.

Since 2020 she has performed with The Conor Guilfoyle Octet as part of an Arts Council

funded tour of Ireland playing the original arrangements of Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool,

the first of it's kind in Ireland. She has also recently toured internationally, with notable

performances in well-known venues including London’s Vortex Jazz Club, The Barbican as

part of London Jazz Festival and Reduta Jazz Club in Prague as well as being part of the first

Irish act to peform in Avignon Jazz Festival.

Jenna Harris

Jenna Harris is a vocalist, composer, and lecturer from Dublin who

specialises in jazz and improvised music. Jenna performs regularly as a

solo artist and with her band Berri. While she improvises with her voice and

improvises with the effects she uses to process her voice, a style of

improvisation has developed that intrinsically links the two, both feeding

back and forth from each other. Her solo performances often incorporate

reactive visuals that she builds as a platform to exhibit the voice as the instrument it is.

Jenna is the founding member of her band Berri, a three piece with leading

creative musicians Matthew Jacobson and Derek Whyte where Jenna

frequently loops and processes her voice, “a group that makes clear the

difference between a jazz singer and a singer of jazz songs" (The Irish Times).

Jenna regularly collaborates with guitarist and electronic musician Daniel

Jacobson (Zoid) and is a member of guitarist Tommy Halferty's quartet Voices.

She is the founding member of vocal group Claritas.

Jenna is a lecturer on the BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at

Dublin City University where she lectures in Voice, Instrumental Skills & Labs,

Ensemble Repertoire & Performance.

Solo

Jenna Harris – Commissioned Voice Generated Audio Visual piece here

Jenna Harris - Live video at the Project Arts Centre here

Jenna Harris - SoundCloud here

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