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 been privileged to create music and events with a vast network of inspiring musicians, visual artists, venues, audiences, and students.

Notable venues and festivals:
- 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, Capetown (South Africa), Portland, and Montreal jazz festivals
- The 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. This work culminated in her solo album for voice, cello, and electronics, minutiae and memory (New Amsterdam Records), featuring eight compositions and 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 from 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.

Current projects include a string quartet project recording and premiering new compositions by modern jazz composers; a trio with her husband, trombonist and composer Alan Ferber, and his twin drummer Mark Ferber; and active work as a recording cellist for a range of artists.

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

Her music: Elevation (for Peregrine Falcons) from 'Air Songs'.