Sabrina Lastman Quartet

The Sabrina Lastman Quartet is an innovative jazz, South American (African roots & folklore traditions) and contemporary music project. It reflects the many influences that Sabrina has experienced while living in her home country Uruguay, in Israel, and more recently in New York. The Quartet plays original compositions, and arrangements of music by Latin American composers like Ruben Rada, and Egberto Gismonti, being some of her compositions inspired by the poetry of renowned South American writers. She brings those experiences – so far away from each other – to an artistic unity, showing that cultural bridges can be built. As a vocalist, Sabrina expands the possibilities of the voice, finding a rich variety of sonorities, colors, and textures. Sabrina sings in Spanish, English and Portuguese, keeping in each language a deep meaning of text and voice quality. The Quartet is formed by musicians: Emilio Solla (piano), Pablo Aslan (double bass), and David Silliman (drums & percussion).

Tango Jazz Duo

The Tango Jazz Duo touches the boundaries of South American music, contemporary music and jazz, and plays original compositions by Sabrina Lastman, and interpretations of tango repertoire with pianist/composer Fernando Otero. A new sound that challenges traditional and modern Latin American music.

Candombe Jazz Project

The Candombe Jazz Project presents oral tradition songs, new arrangement of songs composed by important figures of the Uruguayan music scene, and original compositions by Sabrina Lastman and Beledo.  Candombe is a drum-based musical style of Uruguay, that has its origins in Africa Bantu traditions. The Candombe Project encompasses a range of styles among jazz, funk, rock, tango and experimental elements. Musicians: Beledo (guitar & piano), Don Harris (trumpet), Bakithi Kumalo (bass), Arturo Prendez (candombe drum), David Silliman (drums & percussion), Manuel Silva (candombe drum), and  Agrupación Tambores Macú.

Interdisciplinary Performances

On Becoming

On Becoming is an original music theatre work for two a cappella voices that unites and explores the boundaries between music, movement and theatre. This work explores the dimensions/dynamics of the self, and the perpetual capacity of transformation. Conception & compositions: Sasha Bogdanowitsch and Sabrina Lastman.

Dialogues of Silence

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. 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.