Anna Kristin Webber

saxophone, flute, composition

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Reedist Anna Webber, a Brooklynite by way of British Columbia, is one of the most exciting new arrivals on the New York avant-garde jazz scene in the past couple years. ...her detail-rich writing recalls the work of elders as disparate as Tim Berne and Henry Threadgill, and her busy motion evokes a fizzy sort of exhilaration.
-Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

Anna Webber (b. 1984) is a flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. Her new album, Clockwise, featuring a septet comprised of several of the most creative musicians working in New York’s avant-garde, is out on Pi Recordings (February 2019). Webber is joined on Clockwise by Jeremy Viner, Jacob Garchik, Chris Hoffman, Matt Mitchell, Chris Tordini, and Ches Smith.


In addition to this septet, Webber also leads the critically acclaimed Simple Trio, featuring drummer John Hollenbeck and pianist Matt Mitchell, with which she has released two albums on Skirl Records: Binary (2016) and SIMPLE (2014). Together with saxophonist/composer Angela Morris, she co-leads the Webber/Morris Big Band, which released its debut album, Both Are True, on Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Music in April 2020. Her other projects include Jagged Spheres with Devin Gray and Elias Stemeseder; EAVE with Erik Hove, Evan Tighe, and Vicky Mettler; and The Hero of Warchester with Nathaniel Morgan and Liz Kosack.

...pay attention to Webber, both in the moment and in the future.
-Bill Meyer, Downbeat


Webber has performed and/or recorded with Dan Weiss’ Sixteen; Jen Shyu’s Jade Tongue; Matt Mitchell’s A Pouting Grimace and Sprees; Dave Douglas’ ENGAGE; the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble; Ches Smith’s Laugh Ash; Adam Hopkins’ Crickets; Geof Bradfield’s Yes and...; the Chris Tordini Quartet; Ohad Talmor’s Grand Ensemble; Fabian Almazan’s Realm of Possibilities; Noah Garabedian’s Big Butter and the Eggmen; the Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble; a sextet from Bang on a Can All-Stars member Ken Thomson; Harris Eisenstadt’s Recent Developments; and the Marike van Dijk Stereography Project. She recently played in the world premiere of Sila: The Breath of the World by Pulitzer Prize-winner John Luther Adams at the Lincoln Center.


Webber is a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. She was top of the “Rising Star – Flute” category in Downbeat Magazine Critic’s Poll in 2020. She has additionally been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation (2015), the New York Foundation for the Arts (2017), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts and residencies from Exploring the Metropolis (2019), the MacDowell Colony (2017 & 2020), the Millay Colony for the Arts (2015), and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (2014).

Originally from British Columbia, Webber studied music at McGill University in Montreal before moving to New York City in 2008. She holds master’s degrees from both Manhattan School of Music and the Jazz Institute Berlin.

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BandCamp
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Videos:
Simple Trio plays Underhelmed
Webber/Morris Big Band
Rectangles 2/Cats/etc
The Hero of Warchester
with PERCUSSIVE MECHANICS
with Adam Hopkins' Crickets
with the Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble

Also I made all of these videos for KIM FEST 2015 in Berlin


Anna Kristin Webber

feel free to contact me regarding performances, private lessons (composition or instrumental), questions about music/scores, etc

akwebber@gmail.com
www.annakristinwebber.com

For European booking, please contact Lalo at AKAMU Productions
akamu.net
email Lalo

As a leader:


As a co-leader:


As a sideperson:
Jacob Garchik - Clear Line
Raf Vertessen - LOI
Brian Krock - Big Heart Machine Live at the Jazz gallery
Dave Douglas - Engage
Colin Hinton - Simulacra
Remy Le Boeuf - Assembly of Shadows
Adam Hopkins - Crickets
Ken Thomson - Sextet
Enrique Haneine - The Mind's Mural
Geof Bradfield - Yes and...
Marike van Dijk - The Stereography Project feat. Jeff Taylor and Katell Keineg
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble- All Can Work
Jen Shyu - Song of Silver Geese
Matt Mitchell - A Pouting Grimace
Erik Hove - Polygon
Harris Eisenstadt - Recent Developments
Fabian Almazan & Realm of Possibilities - SWR Newjazz Meeting 2015
Dan Weiss - 16: Drummers Suite
Guilhem Flouzat - Portraits
Erik Hove - Saturated Colour
Marike van Dijk - The Stereography Project
Noah Garabedian - Big Butter and the Egg Men
Simon Kanzler - Talking Hands
Martin Kruemmling - The Vision Behind
Ben Bryden - Flying Scot
Daniel Jamieson - Sudden Appearance
Stefon Harris and Blackout - Urbanus
André Bourgeois - Eau de Mai

Rectangles

Released on July 31, 2020 on Out Of Your Head Records' Untamed Series

Marc Hannaford - piano;
Adam Hopkins - bass;
Mark Ferber - drums;
Anna Webber - tenor sax/compositions

Buy it here:
BandCamp

Tracks:
Rectangles 3

Binary

Released on October 25, 2016 on Skirl Records

SKIRL 033
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums;
Anna Webber - flute//tenor sax/compositions

Buy it here:
BandCamp
Skirl Records

Tracks:
Rectangles 2
Impulse Purchase
Rectangles 3a
Rectangles 1b
Underhelmed
Tug o' War
Rectangles 3b
Binary
Meme
Disintegratiate
Rectangles 3c
Rectangles 1a

SIMPLE

Released on Sept 16, 2014 on Skirl Records

SKIRL 027
Matt Mitchell - piano;
John Hollenbeck - drums;
Anna Webber - flute/alto flute/tenor sax/compositions

It's packaged in a DVD-sized digipack with artwork from Karlssonwilker!
Buy it here:
BandCamp
Skirl Records

Tracks:
Carnophobia
Emoticon
1994
Simplify Simplify
Washington
I Don't Want To Be Happy
Zigzag

REFRACTION

Pirouet Records - PIT3079 - Released January 6, 2015

Anna Webber - flute/alto flute/tenor sax/compositions;
James Wylie - alto sax/clarinet;
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Julius Heise - vibraphone/marimba;
Igor Spallati - bass;
Martin Kruemmling - drums;
Max Andrzejewski - drums/marimba

Buy it here:
BandCamp
Pirouet Records
iTunes

Tracks:
Five (Action)
Tacos Wyoming
Climbing on Mirrors
Theodore
Relentless!
The All Pro 3 speed
Friction/Vif (Reflection)

PERCUSSIVE MECHANICS

Pirouet Records - PIT3069
Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax/compositions;
James Wylie - alto sax/clarinet;
Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Julius Heise - vibraphone/marimba;
Igor Spallati - bass;
Martin Kruemmling - drums;
Max Andrzejewski - drums

Buy it here:
BandCamp
Pirouet Records iTunes

Tracks:
Dan:ce
Certain Transcendence
Terrarosa
Percussive Mechanics
Vigilance
Sleeping Is Giving In
Histrionics
Let It Cut More Deep
EINS!

Third Floor People

Nowt Records - NOWT 005
Montreal People: Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax; Erik Hove - alto sax; Jean-Sebastien Williams - guitar; Phil Melanson - drums

New York People: Anna Webber - flute/tenor sax; Matt Holman - trumpet; Owen Stewart-Robertson - guitar; Fred Kennedy - drums

Buy it here:
BandCamp
iTunes

Tracks:
Third Floor People I
Awkward
Parallelissimo I
Glimpses
Hymn
Stop Rocking
Une Myriade
Boo Boo Boo Daa
Le Pont
Parallelissimo II
Third Floor People II

Jagged Spheres II

Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Devin Gray - drums;
Anna Webber - flute, tenor sax

Only available digitally! You can stream and buy this here at Bandcamp

Tracks:
Dragnet (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Surely Shortly I (Gray)
Suitcase Champion (Webber)
Erdapfeldoag mit Spinat (Stemeseder)
Snatched (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Surely Shortly II (Gray)

Jagged Spheres

Elias Stemeseder - piano;
Devin Gray - drums;
Anna Webber - flute, tenor sax

You can stream and buy this from our BandCamp page
jaggedspheres.bandcamp.com

Tracks:
Jaggedsphere (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
For Erik (Webber)
Health Bars (Stemeseder)
Two And A Half (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Getting Hit Off My Bike, By a Nice Cab Driver At 3:33am In Williamsburg (Gray)
Two (Stemeseder/Gray/Webber)
Nineeight (Stemeseder)

TAC Trio: CIX

Chris Tordini - bass;
Theo Bleckmann - voice;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute

This was a 2020 Quarantine Project, made remotely and collaboratively. Each of us recorded two solo improvisations, which were then passed around, round robin-style, to the other two members of the band. Chris Tordini mixed the album. Artwork by Theo Bleckmann
Released October 2, 2020

Digital download only, available on Bandcamp

Tracks:
Recitative
Combustible
Of
Coronda
Gatehouse
Noa

The Hero of Warchester

Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone;
Liz Kosack - synthesizer;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone

Cassette + digital download available at Prom Night Records

Tracks:
buzzard
everyone needs a hero
distair
wringling
bile

The Four Americas - Hero of Warchester

Nathaniel Morgan - alto saxophone;
Liz Kosack - synthesizer;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone

The Seer of Warchester (and provider of spoken word) is Ben Willis
Artwork by Brian Henkel

Released January 27, 2018. Only available via digital download here: Bandcamp

Tracks:
The Four Americas
Backseat Ranger
The Three Fourmericas
Last Fashion Hero
A Pond of Time
A burden the ham is worse, too in the butch.
Agent Morrison
The Harold of Warchester
The Scholar of Warchester
Florets of Arabia

EAVE

Erik Hove - alto saxophone, flute;
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute;
Vicky Mettler - guitar
Evan Tighe - drums

Released February 16, 2018. Cassette + digital download available on Bandcamp or the Astral Spirits website

Tracks:
Meriwether
Liver-Eating
Gold Fever
Axe or Chisel
Denver Bob
The Night of the Burning River
A Well-Worn Path
Owyhee
Yakima
Memorandum

Clockwise

Released on February 22, 2019 on Pi Recordings

PI79
Anna Webber - tenor saxophone, flute, bass flute, alto flute
Jeremy Viner - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Jacob Garchik - trombone
Christopher Hoffman - cello
Matt Mitchell - piano
Chris Tordini - bass
Ches Smith - drums

CD + digital download available from:
Bandcamp
Pi Recordings

Tracks:
Kore II
Idiom II
King of Denmark I / Loper
King of Denmark II
Clockwise
Array
Hologram Best
King of Denmark III
Kore I

Both Are True

Released on April 3, 2020 on Greenleaf Music

GRE-CD-1075
Angela Morris - conductor, tenor sax, flute
Anna Webber - conductor, tenor sax, flute
Jay Rattman - alto sax, soprano sax, flute
Charlotte Greve - alto sax, clarinet
Adam Schneit - tenor sax, clarinet
Lisa Parrott - bari sax, bass clarinet
John Lake - trumpet
Jake Henry - trumpet
Adam O'Farrill - trumpet
Kenny Warren - trumpet
Tim Vaughn - trombone
Nick Grinder - trombone
Jen Baker - trombone
Reginald Chapman - bass trombone
Patricia Brennan - vibraphone
Dustin Carlson - guitar
Marc Hannaford - piano
Adam Hopkins - bass
Jeff Davis - drums

CD + digital download available from:
Bandcamp

Tracks:
Climbing On Mirrors
Duo 1
Both Are True
Rebonds
Coral
And It Rolled Right Down
Foggy Valley
Duo 2
Reverses

Scores are available for purchase as album packs.

One can currently buy the scores for:
Both Are True (individual scores + parts also available through this link
Clockwise (individual compositions also available on the Pi website)
Binary
SIMPLE
Refraction
Percussive Mechanics

For something that's not listed here or to ask about purchasing parts, please write me an email and we can work something out!
akwebber@gmail.com

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