Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Charlotte Greve - alto saxophone/voice
Jean Kim - piano/voice
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Yoon Sun Choi
A Korean-Canadian improvising vocalist and pianist, Choi has been based in New York City since 2000. Her main musical projects are with her longtime collaborative duo with pianist Jacob Sacks, the YSC Quartet and her new quintet - Advocate as well as her solo voice/piano work. Choi has performed and collaborated with renown artists such as Jane Ira Bloom, Samir Chatterjee, Steve Coleman, Mark Dresser, Mark Elias, Gerry Hemmingway, Darius Jones, D.D. Jackson, Oliver Lake, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Sarah Weaver, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. She has performed in some of the finest concert houses and music venues including The Blue Note, Birdland, The Stone, Roulette, The River Theater, Roy Thompson Hall and Carnegie Hall.Choi received a BMus in classical piano and composition at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a BMus in voice and jazz performance at the University of Toronto. She studied voice with Thomas Schilling and piano with Sofia Rosoff.
Charlotte Greve
Charlotte Greve is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and singer originally from Germany. She has released nine albums as a leader, two of which received the ECHO Jazz Prize (German equivalent of a GRAMMY). In 2022 she was awarded “Artist of the year” at the German Jazz Prize.
Charlotte’s Brooklyn-based indie-pop influenced band Wood River released their Debut LP in 2015 and released their second full length album “More Than I Can See” on Yellowbird Records in 2020. Her large scale multi genre piece “Sediments We Move” was released on New Amsterdam and Figureight Records in October 2021 and received significant attention.
Further projects in New York include the trio "The Choir Invisible” and the ambient duo “Sooner”. As a side-woman, Charlotte continues to collaborate with different artists such as Chris Morrissey, Matt Pavolka, Cassandra Jenkins and Laura Veirs.
Charlotte has been granted several awards for her work, including the 2012 and 2018 Echo Jazz, the 2010 JazzBaltica Award and the 2008 Praetorius-Musikpreis.
Since 2010 Charlotte has been touring with her own projects in the US, Europe, and South Asia and played at several major jazz and pop festivals such as Jazz Baltica, Jazzfest, Berlin, Haldern Pop, and Jazzfest Kolkata.
Born in 1988, Greve began playing classical flute at the age of eight and picked up the saxophone at age the age of sixteen. She received her undergraduate degree at the Jazz Institute Berlin in 2012. The same year, she moved to New York City to pursue a graduate degree at NYU Steinhardt.
Jean Sophie Kim
Pianist, singer and educator JEAN SOPHIE KIM has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber player throughout North America, Europe, North Africa. She has performed at the Alcazar Palace in Seville, Weill Recital Hall in New York, Seoul National Arts Center and the Banff Centre in Canada, among others.
She has degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Western Ontario.
She has worked as an assistant director and conductor on the creative team for David Lang’s Mile Long Opera in 2018 for the architecture firm Diller, Scofidio and Renfro. She was also choral conductor at the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus for over ten years. Her performances with the chorus include Zankel Hall, BAM, Kings Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Additionally she has collaborated with pop producer David Maurice of Fox Grove Music on commercial music endeavors from children’s songs to avant-garde pop. She has performed her two women cabaret show called ‘So… Is this a Date?’ in various cabaret venues in New York City and beyond. In the Fall of 2022 Jean was awarded a fellowship with Bespoken, a Women in Music Mentorship program. Jean has also been appointed Composer in Residence at Hillman Opera.
Sara Schoenbeck
The Wire magazine places Sara Schoenbeck in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her "riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.”
While focusing on the intersection between extended technique and melody Sara works to expand the notion of what the bassoon is capable of in both notated and improvised music.
Sara is a member or performed with Anthony Braxton’s 12+1(tet), the Nels Cline Lovers Orchestra, the Gravitas Quartet, Michael Leonhart Orchestra, SEM and Wet Ink composers collective. Sara has performed at major venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center out of doors, the Guggenheim, Disney Hall, SXSW, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Tempere Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Biennale Musica in Venice Italy, Vancouver Jazz Festival and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Sara can be heard on music and film recordings including Matrix 2 and 3, Spanglish and Dahmer. She is looking forward to releasing her debut album as a leader in a series of intimate duets with in the Fall of 2021 on Pyroclastic Records.
Sara received her BFA from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.