December 12, 2002

Shelley Hirsch will perform solo and improvisational works with turntablists Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara. Hirsch will be celebrating her record release The Far in Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch (Tzadik) and Duets with Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence).

SHELLEY HIRSCH is a vocalist, composer, performance artist whose written and improvised work for stage, concert, record, film, television and radio has been presented on 5 continents. Hirsch has been called “enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic” by the NY Times. Her work incorporates extended vocal techniques, real and imaginary language, international music styles, stream of consciousness, electronics, characterizations, storytelling, movement and mixed visual media.

She has presented her mostly staged solo pieces at prestigious festivals, theaters and museums around the world including The Hebbel Theater (Berlin), WienerFestWochen (Vienna), The Zurcher InternationalTheaterSpektakel (Zurich) Adelaide State Theater (Australia) The Whitney Museum (NYC) Experimenta Festival (Buenos Aires), Helsinki Biennale (Finland) Angelica Festival (Bologna Italy)City of Women Festival (Llubliana Slovenia). She has performed improvised music with musicians Anthony Coleman, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Fred Frith , DJ Olive and Toshio Kajiwara, Min Zhou Feng among others and can be heard on dozens of CDs including her latest CDs Duets with Uchihashi Kasuhisa and a soon to be released solo CD The Far Out Far In Worlds Of Shelley Hirsch on Tzadik; States; her storytelling CD O, Little Town of East New York on Tzadik ; Haiku Lingo on No Mans Land (both with keyboardist David Weinstein) and with the groups September Band and X-Communication (both on FMP). She can also be heard on CDs by Richard Teitelbaum, Jon Rose, Elliot Sharp, Nicolas Collins, John Zorn, David Moss, Sven Ake Johannson and Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Butch Morris, Jim Staley, Hans Koch, Martin Schutz and many compilation CDs. Hirsch is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including NEA, NYFA , NYSCA and Creative Capital.