Confluence with Jody Redhage Ferber

Confluence with Jody Redhage Ferber

Jody is a passionate proponent of creative live music that blurs genres and connects the sensitivity of chamber music and the spontaneous, in-the-moment magic of jazz improvisation. Over the past 18 years of working as a professional cellist, composer, vocalist, recording artist, educator and concert presenter, she has created music and events with a wide network of musicians, visual artists, venues, audiences, and students.

She has performed on five continents at venues and festivals including:
- Carnegie Hall (Stern and Weill halls)
- Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and Appel Room
- Radio City Music Hall
- Disney Hall (L.A.)
- Davies Symphony Hall (S.F.)
- Chicago Symphony Hall
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- The Barbican (London)
- Queen Elizabeth Hall (London)
- Hollywood Bowl
- Lollapalooza
- Austin City Limits
- Montreux, North Sea, San Francisco, Cape Town, Portland, and Montreal jazz festivals
- Village Vanguard and Tokyo’s Blue Note

Called an "Adventurous cello songstress" (Time Out NY), Jody has been praised for her "exceptional technical command" (Steve Smith, Night After Night). She has commissioned over 30 new works for cello, voice & electronics, including pieces from Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, Paula Matthusen, Ted Hearne, and Judd Greenstein. Her solo album for voice, cello, and electronics, minutiae and memory (New Amsterdam Records), features eight compositions and was named "one of the year’s 10 best albums" (Textura magazine).

She has worked with new music figures such as Bang on a Can founders David Lang, Michael Gordon & Julia Wolfe, and composers Terry Riley and George Crumb.

In the pop world she has performed with Neil Diamond, Enya, Sufjan Stevens, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Foxy Brown, the Roots, Meatloaf, Guster, Duncan Sheik, Dar Williams, and Sara Bareilles.

In the jazz world she was a member of Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society band (2010–2015) and has performed and recorded with Fred Hersch, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ron Carter, Andy Milne, Gino Sitson, Camila Meza, Snarky Puppy, and her GRAMMY-nominated husband, Alan Ferber.

She currently plays in a string quartet project recording and premiering new compositions by modern jazz composers; in a trio with her husband, trombonist & composer Alan Ferber, and his twin drummer Mark Ferber; and works as a recording cellist for a range of artists.

Television appearances include ABC’s The View, the CBS Early Show, NBC’s The Today Show, the Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular, Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and BET’s Mo’Nique Show.

You can hear her on the Super Grover segments on Sesame Street and on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.