Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra (born 15 November 1970 at Anaheim / California) is an American percussionist, composer and Jazzschlagzeugerin.

Life and work

Ibarra grew up in a originating from the Philippines doctor's family in Seabrook (Texas ) near Houston on. As a child, she learned piano; later she played in a punk band drums. During their stay at the Sarah Lawrence College, she led a Sun Ra concert, more of an interest in jazz. She completed her formal studies at the Mannes College of Music and the Goddard College, where she received a BA completed. Since 1989, Ibarra has lived in New York, where she worked at Milford Graves took drum lessons. Kulintang she learned at Danongan Kalanduyan.

Ibarra worked as a percussionist and interpreted Southeast Asian gong music. Increasingly, they also worked in the field of contemporary improvised music and jazz. They played with the David S. Ware Quartet, Matthew Shipp Trio which, as well as with John Zorn, William Parker, Assif Tsahar ( with whom she was married ), Pauline Oliveros, Joëlle Léandre, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Yo La Tengo and Thurston Moore. Addition, however, it also occurs as a soloist. Since 1999 she takes on recordings under her name; next she continues to play with musicians of different genres together. In Susie Ibarra Trio with Jennifer Choi plays and Craig Taborn, in the group with Sylvie Courvoisier and Ikue Mephista Mori; continue to operate in a duo with Mark Dresser and the quartet of John Lindberg. In the group Electric kulintang with Roberto Rodriguez contributes to the Asian American jazz music.

She composes alongside jazz tunes and opera music and avant-garde music. Currently, she is probably best known as a jazz musician. Your expressive technique and the inclusion of different styles and genres such as blues, gamelan and kulintang are particularly prominent.

Disco printing specifications

  • Home Cookin ' ( Hopscotch, 1998, Assif Tsahar )
  • Radiance ( Hopscotch, 1999, with Charles Burnham, Cooper Moore)
  • Songbird Suite ( Tzadik, 2001, Jennifer Choi, Ikue Mori, Craig Taborn )
  • Mephista: Entomological Reflections ( Tzadik, 2003)

Awards

  • " Best Drummer" - Village Voice
  • " Best Drummer" - Downbeat
  • " Best Drummer" - The Wire
  • " New Talent of the Year - 1997 " - Jazziz Magazine
November 15 Anaheim, California Punk subculture Mannes College The New School for Music Bachelor's degree William Parker (musician) Derek Bailey (guitarist) Yo La Tengo Charles Burnham (musician) Tzadik Records Down Beat The Wire (magazine)
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