Amy Kohn is a pianist, accordionist and singer who's imaginative music is heard via contemporary classical artists (Ethel String Quartet, Pianist Guy Livingston) to Italian children’s theater (Fantaghiro’) to innovative US and European radio (BBC Radio 3 and 6, WNYC, Netherlands’ Concertzender and others). In the past year and half, she’s performed her music in tandem with Italian pianist Debora Petrina (NientAltroKeDonne) and solo at festivals throughout Italy and Croatia including UBI Jazz, Woma Jazz, Festival Segnali All’Orizzonte, and FoPA. She leads her 7-piece band to NY venues such as Joe’s Pub and the Issue Project Room. In 2006, Amy released her last album, I’m in Crinoline, and she’s working on the next, extra-lustrous one, with songs about fake airplane-sex, orange-shaped heartache, Brazilian neon, and L.E.D lights. She is honored to be a featured singer, along with Chaka Khan and Norah Jones, on a CD and DVD of legendary Producer Arif Mardin’s music, coming out this year. With a voice as “idiosyncratic as they come.which is all part of the fun” (Pitchfork Media Feature), Amy gives us songs that are “not like much else you've ever heard” (Three Weeks, Scotland).
Amy Kohn è una pianista, fisarmonicista e cantante la cui musica immaginativa viene ascoltata attraverso artisti contemporanei (il quartetto d'archi Ethel, il pianista Guy Livingston) o in onda su innovative stazioni radio americane ed europee (BBC Radio 3 e 6, Resonance Radio, speciale live alla WNYC Spinning on Air, Netherlands’ Concertzender e altre). Nell'ultimo anno ha suonato la sua musica in solo e in tandem con la pianista Debora Petrina in vari festival italiani e croati tra cui UBI Jazz, Woma Jazz, Geni Musicali e al Festival of Performing Arts a Pola (Croazia). Amy dirige la sua band di 7 componenti suonando nei locali di New York come Joe's Pub e Issue Project Room. Nel 2006 Amy ha rilasciato il suo ultimo album, I'm in Crinoline, e attualmente sta lavorando al nuovo, con canzoni su simulatori di volo, neon brasiliani a mal di cuore a forma di arancia. E' onorata di essere stata scelta, come Chaka Khan e Norah Jones, dal leggendario Arif Mardin (produttore di Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones e tanti altri) in un CD e DVD di prossima uscita sulla vita e la musica di quest'ultimo.
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