Singer | Writer | New Yorker
NYC-based singer (mostly jazz) and writer. Lover of words, food, and all things Italian.
Duchess heads to Cincinnati, OH for an evening of swinging music and high-spirited humor. Details and tickets are available HERE.
Duchess debuts at the National Arts Club as part of their Fine & Mellow Jazz Series. One set only! Details and tickets HERE.
Trail songs are coming to Jazz at Lincoln Center! Details and tickets HERE.
With Justin Poindexter (guitar, vocals), Noah Garabedian (bass), Aaron Thurston (drums), Sasha Papernik (accordion, vocals)
Duchess debuts at The Mainstay in charming Rock Hall, MD! Details and tickets coming soon.
The Lonesome Pines (Hilary Gardner, Justin Poindexter, Noah Garabedian, Aaron Thurston, and Sasha Papernik) headline this free concert at the Harry Chapin Rainbow Stage at Heckscher Park in Huntington, LI as part of the Huntington Summer Arts Festival. Long Island trio The North Folk opens.
Two sets of music—standards, trail songs, and maybe some surprises—with Justin Poindexter (guitar) and Noah Garabedian (bass). Sets at 7 and 9pm. Details and reservations HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir performs highlights from the Renaissance era. At the heart of the program is the Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd, one of the period’s greatest masterpieces.
This performance will also be livestreamed. Tickets and details HERE.
On the Trail with The Lonesome Pines will be available wherever you get your music on Friday, March 8, 2024! CLICK HERE to presave.
“Cow Cow Boogie” will be available wherever you get your music on Friday, February 23, 2024! CLICK HERE to presave.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir performs an evening of enchanting choral music by Canada’s legendary pioneering female composer Ruth Watson Henderson. Please note, this performance will take place at Church of Our Saviour (Park Avenue at 38th Street), not Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Tickets and details HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir, directed by Ryan Jackson
Patrick Kreeger, organ and piano
Jeanne Lehman, reader
Step away from the bustle of Christmas preparations for an hour of choral music and congregational carols in the candlelit beauty of Kirkland Chapel. Broadway star Jeanne Lehman reads seasonal poetry as the Chamber Choir performs a selection of familiar music and new treasures. This performance will be livestreamed! Tickets and details available HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir, directed by Ryan Jackson
Patrick Kreeger, organ and piano
Jeanne Lehman, reader
Step away from the bustle of Christmas preparations for an hour of choral music and congregational carols in the candlelit beauty of Kirkland Chapel. Broadway star Jeanne Lehman reads seasonal poetry as the Chamber Choir performs a selection of familiar music and new treasures. Tickets and details available HERE.
The Lonesome Pines are celebrating the expansiveness and romantic allure of the American West with our Tarrytown debut at Jazz Forum Arts. Sets at 4:00 and 6:00pm. Tickets for the 4pm set HERE; for the 6pm set HERE.
Duchess brings swinging harmonies and big fun to Nelson Hall this spring. Tickets and details available HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir and Orchestra, directed by Ryan Jackson, with Patrick Kreeger, organ
A work of tremendous beauty and spiritual depth, Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem is a pinnacle of 20th-century choral music. An orchestra joins the Fifth Avenue Choir for the Lent concert, which also features From Darkness to Light, a striking cantata by the celebrated Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson.
Tickets and details for Friday, March 31 available HERE.
In-person and livestream tickets and details for Saturday, April 1 available HERE.
Duchess heads south for two performances at the Smithgall Arts Center in Gainesville, GA, backed by a terrific Atlanta-based band.
Details and tickets for March 17 HERE.
The March 18 show is SOLD OUT.
I’m headed back to beautiful Rock Hall, MD for an evening of intimate, story-driven Great American Songbook repertoire. I’ll be joined by three incredibly swinging exponents of the NYC jazz scene, Steve Einerson (piano), Dylan Shamat (bass), and Ken Fowser (saxophone).
$20; details and tickets HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir and Instrumentalists, directed by Ryan Jackson, with Patrick Kreeger, organ and piano
This concert features a powerful, genre-defying selection of music that sings of the blessings and challenges of human connection in the modern world. Selections include pop standards by Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel, as well as new choral music and art song by Saunder Choi, Daniel Ficarri, Jessica French and Gilda Lyons. At the heart of the program, and the inspiration for this concert’s title, is To the Hands, a stirring, modern-day masterpiece for choir and strings by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.
Details and tickets HERE.
Duchess is teaching an online master class for JazzVoice.com. Discover how three jazz soloists became one of the top vocal groups in jazz today. Get tips for creating arrangements, finding blend, and venturing into the world of harmony singing in jazz!
Enrollment is $15. Details and registration HERE.
Celebrating the expansiveness and romantic allure of the American West with an evening of genre-spanning songs encompassing jazz, vintage country, and Western swing. Featuring Justin Poindexter (guitar, vocals), Noah Garabedian (bass), and Aaron Thurston (drums, percussion).
Tickets and details available HERE.
Duchess swings into the season with two shows (December 17 and 18) at Atlanta’s Woodruff Center for the Arts as part of Jazz at the Ballroom’s festive holiday show, featuring a fantastic roster of musicians: the Konrad Paszkudzki Trio, Adrian Cunningham, Champian Fulton, and Alphonso Horne.
Tickets and full details HERE.
After the past two years of there being no place BUT home for the holidays, come to a different kind of “Holiday In.” It’s a hip, sophisticated twist on classic holiday tunes made famous by Broadway, Hollywood, and music legends such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. The Holiday ‘In’ production features the Konrad Trio with Konrad Paszkudzki at the piano, Dylan Shamat on bass, and Hilary Gardner providing the vocals.
Details and tickets HERE.
Duchess swings into the season at the Wall Street Theater in Norwalk, CT with Jazz at the Ballroom’s festive holiday show, featuring a fantastic roster of musicians: the Konrad Paszkudzki Trio, Adrian Cunningham, Tony DeSare, Champian Fulton, and special guest Terrell Stafford, hosted by Cristian Finnegan.
Tickets and full details HERE.
Duchess swings into the season at Chelsea Table and Stage as part of Jazz at the Ballroom’s festive holiday show, featuring a fantastic roster of musicians: the Konrad Paszkudzki Trio, Tony DeSare, Champian Fulton, and host Cristian Finnegan.
Tickets and full details HERE.
The Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir, directed by Ryan Jackson, with Patrick Kreeger, organ and piano.
Our fall concert offers music celebrating the beauty of the natural world and the beloved stories of its origin. Featuring In the Beginning, Aaron Copland’s vibrant a cappella showpiece, this immersive program transcends genre and era as it reflects the diversity and abundance of our earthly home. The concert also lends musical expression to the themes of the fall sermon series, Holy Ground.
Tickets and details HERE.
Duchess debuts at Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz! Two 50-minute sets, beginning at 3:00pm.
Featuring:
Michael Cabe (piano)
Matt Aronoff (bass)
Paul Wells (drums)
Tickets and more details HERE.
An unprecedented customized, immersive and interactive online event, the Jazz Journalists Association 2022 Jazz Bash will combine Awards presentations, live music performances from across the US, panel discussions with Awards winners and unique presentations including story-tellers and musicians’ jokes, in five unique “rooms” of SyncSpace.live.
Register HERE. Event is free to JJA members, Awards nominees and Jazz Heroes, $25 for the general public.
With Justin Poindexter (guitar, vocals) and Noah Garabedian (bass), Aaron Thurston (drums).
Tickets and venue details HERE.
Jazz at the Ballroom brings Accentuate the Positive to Symphony Space for an evening of the unforgettable music from the Songbook that kept Americans company for over four transformational decades.
Details and tickets HERE.
Jazz at the Ballroom brings Accentuate the Positive to Symphony Space for an evening of the unforgettable music from the Songbook that kept Americans company for over four transformational decades.
Details and tickets HERE.
In 1944, Bing Crosby made Johnny Mercer’s song Accentuate The Positive a hit in film and on the radio. It later became known as one of the songs that got Americans through WWII. The popular songs of the day, now called the Great American Songbook, became an unofficial catalogue of tunes that comforted and connected Americans at home and abroad during hard times.
Taking inspiration from Bing Crosby’s hit song, Jazz at the Ballroom presents Accentuate the Positive, an evening of the unforgettable music that brought Americans inspiration and consolation during some of the country’s darkest moments, from the 1920s through the 1940s.
The Konrad Paszkudzki Quartet shares the stage with guest host, NBC News Correspondent Pete Williams, and an award-winning cast of musicians. Along with photographs, film footage, and commentary, this will be a night celebrating the memorable music that kept America company for over forty transformational years.
Details and tickets HERE.
This show will welcome a limited live studio audience with a ticket-holder reception. Proceeds from both ticket sales and livestream listener donations will help fund need-based scholarships for the 26th Annual Litchfield Jazz Camp.
Details and tickets here, free livestream link at litchfieldjazzfest.com.
Featuring:
Michael Cabe - piano
Matt Aronoff - bass
Jared Schonig - drums
The FAPC Chamber Choir and Soloists, directed by Ryan Jackson
with The Shelest Piano Duo, Kirkland Chapel & Live Stream
A dramatic and powerful prayer for deliverance from death and hell, Verdi’s Requiem is a thrilling product of years of experience as the world’s greatest opera composer. The Shelest Piano Duo join us for the world premiere of Ryan Jackson’s thrilling new arrangement of this masterpiece for piano four-hands.
Hear Verdi’s superb vocal writing as never before in an electrifying performance that explores all the drama and dynamics of the score with the incisive diction and vibrant sound that has come to define the Fifth Avenue Chamber Choir. These performances are dedicated to the memory of Antoine Hodge, beloved choir member who passed away from complications due to COVID-19 in February 2021. Sung in Latin with English subtitles.
In-person + live stream tickets & details HERE.
