Yoon Sun Choi - voice/piano
Elsa Nilsson - flutes
Deidre Rodman - piano/voice
Brittany Karlson - bass

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Yoon Sun Choi, born in South Korea, raised in Canada and now a New York-based improvising vocalist and pianist using her vocal prowess that transitions effortlessly from resonant, haunting melodies to deep, resonant wails. Yoon has made significant contributions to the music scene over her twenty-year-long career performing and collaborating with esteemed artists including Mark Dresser, Darius Jones, Jacob Sacks, and Kenny Wheeler, on prestigious stages such as The Blue Note, Birdland, and Carnegie Hall.

Brooklyn-based flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson’s work engages high-level
improvising and layered, cinematic orchestration; her artistry, an earnest and actionable
desire to collaborate with multimodal artists and the changing world around her. The
Gothenburg native’s solo leader releases include include Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina
(2024), Pulses (2023), Atlas Of Sound - Coast Redwoods (2022), Dark Is Light Is (2021),
Hindsight (2020), After Us (2018) and Salt Wind (2017). She’s named Flutist Of The Year in
the Downbeat 2025 poll, is the 2018 winner of the National Flute Association’s Jazz
Flute Competition, and the recipient of multiple Chamber Music America grants,
including a 2022 New Jazz Works grant for Band of Pulses.

Originally from Idaho, Deidre Struck is a composer, pianist, and singer who moved to NYC in 1997 to play keyboards with the Big Apple Circus. She has three jazz albums on the Sunnyside label, one of which, Twin Falls, is a duo album with renowned bassist Steve Swallow.
She toured extensively with all-female group The Lascivious Biddies, and in 2010 began working at Carnegie Hall as a teaching artist with The Lullaby Project During her many years teaching at the summer camp her two daughters attended, Deidre fell in love with theater, and now writes and plays with Brooklyn Children’s Theater.

Bassist Brittany Karlson is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, improvised, and Appalachian music. Karlson is ½ of the Neuburg/Karlson duo with longtime collaborator drummer/percussionist Nick Neuburg. When performing solo, Karlson improvises, performs original songs under the moniker Karl, or ducks behind her bass with sound objects/props. She is a dedicated music educator, AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher, and assisted stretch practitioner. From Chicagoland, lived in Boston, based in Brooklyn, NY.