| Jody Redhage Artist's Website >> Cellist, composer, and vocalist Jody Redhage performs a wide variety of musical genres. A classically trained cellist, Jody studied classical cello repertoire and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of California Berkeley, and the Manhattan School of Music with some of today's most celebrated chamber musicians, including Peter Salaff, Bonnie Hampton, Sylvia Rosenberg, Julia Lichten, David Geber, Mikhail Kopelman, and David Krakauer. Jody's dual passions for chamber music and new music have led her to participate in an array of cutting-edge, experimental chamber music projects. Jody herself began composing at age 19, and since then has premiered many works of her own for chamber ensembles, as well as countless premieres of fellow composers' works. In the past several years, she has embarked on a project in which she simultaneously sings and plays cello. As recipient of the 2005 Hertz Fellowship, Jody was able to develop this project by commissioning a repertoire for her voice and cello from some of New York's most talented emerging composers. Jody went into the recording studio in the summer of 2006, and the CD culmination of this commissioning/recording project, "All Summer in a Day," was released on New Amsterdam Records on February 1, 2007. Jody graduated with her master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in May 2005, and she now resides in Brooklyn. Her interest in a wide variety of musical genres has led her to regularly perform with classical, jazz, rock, and pop groups in New York City and throughout North America. Jody has worked with composers Pierre Boulez, Martin Bresnick, Margaret Brouwer, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Jed Distler, Joshua Fried, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Steve Reich, Todd Reynolds, Terry Riley, John Thow, Lois V. Vierk, Nils Vigeland, Julia Wolfe, and Evan Ziporyn. Additional notable collaborations include performances with members of the Tokyo String Quartet, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Flux Quartet, Sequiter, Tactus Contemporary Ensemble, Neil Diamond and band, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Meatloaf, the Roots, Clay Aiken, Enya, Duncan Sheik, and Guster. Currently she is the cellist for the Anechoic Chamber Ensemble, the ensemble Yes is a World, and the Composers' Collective, Inc. Band. She has recently formed a new group, the Y Trio, with Eileen Mack (clarinet) and Jonathan Shapiro (percussion). Jody has appeared on TV playing on ABC's "The View," the CBS "Early Show," and NBC's "The Today Show," and "Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular." Her own compositions, as well as works from her CD, have been aired on several NPR stations, including WNYC's "Evening Music." Jody particularly enjoys the recording studio environment, and has recorded for a variety of pop, rock, classical, jazz, orchestral and new music recordings. She has recently composed and recorded a piece for four cellos and soprano (with male soprano Anthony Roth Costanzo) for a scene in director M Blash's upcoming movie "Lying," coming soon to NYC's Landmark Theater. O1C Performances: OOGOG & Jody Redhage |
