Our next album The Candombe Jazz Sessions with the Sabrina Lastman Quartet will be released in March 2012 by ZOHO Music.

Sabrina Lastman Quartet are: Sabrina Lastman (voice/songs), Emilio Solla (piano/arrangements), Pablo Aslan (double bass), David Silliman (drums/percussions).

Special guests: Alexander Norris (trumpet), Meg Okura (violin), Dave Eggar (cello), Ernesto Villa-Lobos (violin), Daphna Mor (recorders), Arturo Prendez (Candombe drum piano), Manuel Silva (Candombe drum repique) and Fabricio Teodoro (Candombe drum chico).

Listen to “Axis” from The Candombe Jazz Sessions:

Tour Dates: 

- March 4, 7:30 pm – Cd Release @ Joe’s Pub (Manhattan, NY) [BUY TICKETS]

- March 10, 8 pm – Pregones Theater (Bronx, NY) [BUY TICKETS]

Sabrina Lastman Trio  will be playing on Monday, December 12 with two New York great musicians: Fernando Otero (pianist/ Grammy Award Winner) and Pablo Aslan (double bass/ Grammy Nominated) at Bar Next Door.

The Trio we’ll be presenting songs from the album “The Folds of the Soul“, the up coming album “The Candombe Jazz Series” (ZOHO Music, March 2012) and a couple of new tunes.

Sabrina Lastman Trio
Sabrina Lastman – voice/ songs
Fernando Otero – keyboard
Pablo Aslan – double bass

Monday, December 12, 2011 | 2 sets 8:30 & 10:30 PM
Bar Next Door | 129 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012
www.lalanternacaffe.com

General Admission – $12 + 2 drink minimum
Reservations @ 212 529 5945. It is highly recommended to reserve a table for any of the two sets. BND is an intimate 28 seat room

Join us for the last concert of 2011!!

THIRD ANNUAL “VITAL VOX” FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE AT BROOKLYN’S NEW ROULETTE, NOV. 5 & 6, 2011

Artists include Iva Bittova; Toby Twining Music; Judith Berkson; Dafna Naphtali; Gelsey Bell w/ Paul Pinto; and Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman

VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. The 3rd Annual festival will take place on November 5 and 6 at 8pm, at the brand new Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn, NY (2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR). Tickets are $15 ($10 Students/Seniors/Members) and can be purchased at www.roulette.org or by calling 917-267-0363. VITAL VOX (www.vitalvoxfest.com) celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States.

• The November 5, 2011 program (Voice + Keys) includes ‘Vor an Sicht’ by Judith Berkson; ‘Scaling’ performed by Gelsey Bell and Paul Pinto; ‘{kaleid-o-phone}’ performed by Dafna Naphtali.

• The November 6, 2011 program (Voice + Strings) includes ‘Wood in the Wind’ performed by Iva Bittova; Toby Twining Music (Toby Twining & Malina Rauschenfels); SoCorpo (Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman)

For more information and tickets reservation visit www.vitalvoxfest.com and www.roulette.org

A very special 2-day double bill of multi-media music engagement with performances of Contemporary Jazz & Avant-Folk

Sounding Word includes two original performances:

River of Painted Birds by Sabrina Lastman &
Present, Past and Future Sees by Sasha Bogdanowitsch.

Saturday, July 30, 10 pm
Sunday, July 31, 3 pm
Performing Arts Marathon (PAM)
Baruch College, Nagelberg Theatre
55 Lexington Ave., NY
For tickets reservation call (866) 811 4111 or buy on line at www.teatroiati.org/programs/pam

Check the dates for the tour with Fernando Otero:

Monday, April 11, 6:15 pm
Dialogues of Silence
Bronfman Hall, The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
Free entrance

Tuesday, April 12, 8:30 pm
Dialogues of Silence &
Free Improvisation w/ Ido Bukelman (guitar) & Ran Livneh (double bass)
Barbur
6 Shirizly St. Nachlaot
Jerusalem, Israel
Free entrance

Thursday, April 21, 9:30 pm
Duo with Fernando Otero (piano)
Elemento Design Gallery
15 Hazorfim St., Old Jaffa
Tel-Aviv, Israel
www.elemento-design.com

Friday, April 22, 1 pm
Duo with Fernando Otero (piano)
“Jazz in the Boulevard”
Ben Gurion Bv. bet. Dizengoff & Ben-Yehuda
Tel Aviv, Israel

Friday, April 22, 10 pm
Duo with Fernando Otero (piano)
Milestone Jazz Club
Gan Shmuel 38810
www.shuni.co.il/shows.asp

Saturday, April 23,  9 pm
Duo with Fernando Otero (piano)
Cinematheque Jerusalem
Derech Chevron 11
Jerusalem, Israel
www.jer-cin.org.il

Monday, April 25, 8:30 pm
Duo with Fernando Otero (piano)
Shablul Jazz
HaAngar 13, Tel Aviv Port
Tel Aviv, Israel
www.shabluljazz.com

Wednesday, April 27, 4 pm
Jerusalem Conservatory Hassadna
22 Emek Rephaim St.
Jerusalem, Israel

The Sabrina Lastman Quartet will be playing new arrangements and some new music on Tuesday, March 29,  7 pm at the Metropolitan Room. This will happen after the recording sessions for our up coming album.

Buy tickets HERE

34 West 22nd St., between 5th and 6th Avenues
New York, NY 10010
http://metropolitanroom.com

On March 23 and 24 we are entering the studio to record the Sabrina Lastman Quartet with Pablo Aslán (double bass), Emilio Solla (piano), David Silliman (drums & percussions) + special guests!!

SABRINA LASTMAN QUARTET
Saturday, February 12, 2011 | 7pm @ CONSERVATORY
1591 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ (located next to The Union County Performing Arts Center)
Tickets: $15 | Buy tickets Online
Reservations & information: TEATRO Sí: 908-301-9496

Sonography: Homage to Julio Herrera y Reissig
Friday, February 18, 2011 | 8 pm at Le Poisson Rouge

Performances by Sabrina Lastman, Marcelo Toledo, Marcos Wasem, Ernesto Estrella & Aldo Mazzucchelli on texts by the Uruguayan Modernist Julio Herrera y Reissig.

Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Free admission

River of Painted Birds by Sabrina Lastman is a new work commissioned by NYSCA to be premiered at VITAL VOX. This music performance is created for solo voice (sung & spoken), and prerecorded voice & sound tracks (tape recorder/walkman, computer) combining composed sections and free improvisation. It looks for a musical balance among elements of jazz, experimental and contemporary music. This new piece is inspired by the poetry and texts of writers and thinkers –ex-political prisoners– that created their work as a consequence of the repression during and after the dictatorship period of the seventies in Uruguay. River of Painted Birds was created on Ubuntu (OS) using Linux, SooperLooper, Ardour, Jack, and Ladish programs.

VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL explores the myriad power of the human voice in its solo and ensemble forms across a multitude of genres. This three day festival is in its 2nd annual appearance and will occur on November 11, 12, and 13 2010 at 8:30pm at the ISSUE Project Room at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, in Brooklyn, NY. (F/G Subway to Carroll St or F/M/R to 9th St./4th Ave.) Tickets are $10 ($9 in advance) and ca…n be purchased at www.issueprojectroom.org or by calling 718-330-0313. VITAL VOX (www.vitalvoxfest.com) celebrates composer-performers in the vocal arts who stretch and expand the voice in new and original ways, continuing a strong contemporary tradition developed in the United States.

With international influences springing from such countries and regions as Taiwan, East Timor, Slovakia, Africa, South India, and more; genres ranging from jazz, experimental, contemporary, free improvisation, “noise” music, and abstract solo opera; and themes ranging from “maintaining one’s composure”, to cinematographic music theater inspired by the life, films and death of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, VITAL VOX has wide ranging scope and appeal.

PROGRAM
November 11
Jen Shyu – Inner Chapters performed
Nat Baldwin – Songs for Double Bass and Voice
Sabrina Lastman – River of Painted Birds
Chris Mann – The Art of the Diff

November 12
Corey Dargel – Hold Yourself Together
Samita Sinha – Cipher
C Spencer Yeh – Improvisations 11-12-10
Joan La Barbara – Gatekeeper

November 13
Lori Cotler with Glen Velez – Takadimi Duo
Audrey Chen – Untitled for 2010 Present
Sasha Bogdanowitsch – Past and Future Sees
Magic Names – The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Songs performed by Gisburg

VITAL VOX: A VOCAL FESTIVAL – www.vitalvoxfest.com
November 11, 12, & 13 | 2010 | 8:30pm
ISSUE Project Room at the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY (F/G Subway to Carroll St or F/M/R to 9th St./4th Ave.)
Tickets are $10 ($9 in advance) at www.issueprojectroom.org or calling 718-330-0313.

“Ear ♥ Music” Chamber Music series @ The Tank presents:
ON BECOMING |  September 21, 7:00 PM

On Becoming is an original music theatre work for two a cappella voices, recorded music, electronics, and live instruments. This work explores the dimensions and dynamics of the self, and its perpetual capacity of transformation. Presented by SoCorpo (www.socorpo.com).

Conception & compositions:
Sasha Bogdanowitsch: voice, doso’ngoni, swarsangam, percussion, halo and electronics
Sabrina Lastman: voice, kantele, percussion and electronics

Ear ♥ Music is where New Yorkers can get their aural fix. Featuring some of New York’s most cutting edge performers, composers and programming, this is a modern chamber music series presented to an intimate crowd. We believe that audiences want to be engaged – not simply entertained – by the music they go out to hear. We nurture our listeners by presenting repertoire that is challenging yet relevant, and by providing context for our work. Ear ♥ Music:Makers opens discussions about the art-music of now taking the work of interviewed composers as a starting point. These events also include live performance. 

Price: $10.00.  Buy Tickets HERE

The Tank is located at 354 W 45th St, New York.

Visit Ear ♥ Music at Facebook:  http://bit.ly/earheart

Visit The Tank:  www.thetanknyc.org

On Monday, September 6, 7:30 pm we’ll be playing with the Sabrina Lastman Quartet at Joe’s Pub for the first time!!

SLQ: Sabrina Lastman, Emilio Solla, Pablo Aslán, David Silliman and guest musicians TBA.

Make your Reservations in advance: www.joespub.com

This project is made possible in part with public funds form the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council:

Candombe Jazz Project (Afro Uruguayan Music) is a New York City-based ensemble playing Candombe, the Afro Uruguayan music tradition. The Candombe Jazz Project presents an exciting concert of oral traditional songs, new arrangement of songs composed by renowned Uruguayan songwriters, and original compositions by Sabrina Lastman.

Featuring Uruguayan vocalist/composer Sabrina Lastman, Uruguayan guitarist/composer Beledo, Uruguayan master of candombe drum Arturo Prendez, and special guest Agrupación Lubola Macú.

July 15, 2010 (8pm) – IATI Theatre (http://www.teatroiati.org)

Musicians:

Sabrina Lastman (voice/songs) – www.sabrina-lastman.com
Boledo (guitar) – www.beledo.com
Arturo Prendez (candombe drum)
Special Guest: Agrupación Lubola Macú

Other Credits:

Photos:              Michael J. Palma
Sound Engineer:   Pawel Szarejko
Sound System:    World in One Pan Arts

What is Candombe?

Candombe is a drum-based musical style of Uruguay. This rhythm developed in the Rio de la Plata area — Buenos Aires and particularly in Montevideo — among the black slaves brought by the Spanish colony in the 18th Century. Candombe is based on Bantu African drumming and other influences the African community received from the new environment they lived in. In Uruguayan culture this drum-based musical style is highly significant and extremely popular, going strong on the streets, halls and carnivals all over the country.

Candombe is a polyrhythmic three-part-drums-ensemble formed by the three tambores called chico, repique and piano, and the music composed on the basis of this rhythm encompasses a range of styles like funk, jazz, rock and tango, among others.

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SoCorpo, the vocal ensemble comprised of Sasha Bogdanowitsch & Sabrina Lastman, will present On Becoming at La Mama Moves Festival on Fridays June 11 & 18 at 10 pm.

On Becoming is an original music theatre work for two a cappella voices, recorded music, electronics, and live instruments. This work explores the dimensions & dynamics of the self, and its perpetual capacity of transformation.

SoCorpo creates interdisciplinary work that unites and explores the boundaries between music, sound, movement, theatre and visuals, and whose music stretches the possibilities of the human voice and bridges gaps between contemporary new music, jazz, folk and world music. In 2009 SoCorpo released the album On Becoming based on this performance. www.socorpo.com

On Becoming
Fridays, June 11 & June 18 | 10 pm
La Mama Theatre – The Club
74A East 4th St. NY, NY 10003, bet. 2nd Ave. & Bowery

Ticket:  Adult $15, Student/Senior $10
Purchase tickets here:  www.ovationtix.com

After a great tour this week with Philip Hamilton’s VOICES in New England, Sabrina will be performing “Dialogues of Silence” at the New York City College of Technology on April 20 at 3 pm, and is open to the public.

Dialogues of Silence is an interdisciplinary performance of voice, sound and movement. This new music theatre piece is based on the poetry and inner world perception of Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño (1920-2009). In this performance, Vilariño’s existentialist poetry meets music & sounds that create a world beyond the limits of the text’s power.Dialogues of Silence consists of a solo vocal artist who translates the poetic atmosphere into a dance and sound experience.

Dialogues of Silence
Tuesday, April 20 |  3 pm
New York City College of Technology
Atrium Amphytheatre
300 Jay St., Brooklyn
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Free admission

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs awarded Sabrina a 2010 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant to support the Sabrina Lastman Quartet.

Tuesdays, 01/19 – 03/23; 6:30pm to 8pm
A.R.T./New York Spaces
520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10008

Singing is a way of discovering oneself, a dialog with our inner self and an experience of communicating with others. The voice can take us to a deep journey of sounds, qualities, styles and expressions. For this journey to be healthy, energetic, and artistic, we need an approach to the voice as an instrument; we need to learn from it and about it.

This workshop focuses on the development of the voice through breathing, body awareness and voice technique (pitch quality, range, support -physical strength-, emission & intonation). During this process we’ll work on collective singing, individual song interpretation, sound exploration and voice improvisation. Through work on body releasing and voice technique, we bring our body/mind to a state of open and creative presence. Open to all levels.

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Check the concerts coming up in February 2010:

2/7/2010 3:00 PM at The Flea Theatre
Cost: Free
Music with a View. Singing compositions by Sasha Bogdanowitsch.

2/17/2010 8:00 PM at Tututma

2/20/2010 3:45 PM at Museo del Barrio
Cost: Free
Candombe Jazz Project performing at the Heckscher Theatre.

KJCC Poetry Series, curated by Lila Zemborain

Tuesday, December 3, 7:00 p.m. (download pdf)
Dialogues of Silence, by Sabrina Lastman, is an interdisciplinary performance based on the poetry and inner world perception of Uruguayan poet Idea Vilariño. It consists of a solo vocal artist who translates the poetic atmosphere into a dance and sound experience.

Readings in Spanish. Reception to follow.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s MFA Program in Creative Writing in Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.