2024 January 2024 February 4, 2024 February 14, 2024 March 12, 2024 March 15, 2024 April 5, 2024 May 11, 2024 May 14 - 16, 2024 June 1, 2024 June 10 - 16, 2024 June 19, 2024 August 1 - 5, 2024 2023 January 12 & 13, 2023 Concept and composition: Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka Friday, January 27, 2023 February 8, 2023 February 15 - 18, 2023, 8:30pm ET all nights Feb. 15: Jen Shyu (voice, gayageum) Kenny Barron (piano) Lesley Mok (percussion) Kalia Vandever (trombone) February 17, 2023 March 5, 2023 April 27, 2023 May 4, 6, & 24, 2023 June 13, 2023 June 18, 2023 September 21, 22, 23, 2023 November 5, 2023 November 9, 2023 November 11, 2023 November 29 - December 1, 2023 December 6, 2023 December 7, 2023
Jen Shyu in residence at Loghaven Artist Residency
Knoxville, TN
2pm, PT, Jen Shyu performs at SFJAZZ with Kenny Barron (Resident Artistic Director)
Kenny Barron, piano / Jen Shyu,vocals & gayageum, Kalia Vandever,trombone / John Patitucci,bass / Lesley Mok,drums
San Francisco, CA
7:30pm, Asia Society, "Coal + Ice" Exhibition Opening with Abigail Washburn & Martha Redbone
NYC
Jen gives class via Zoom at University of California-Irvine (UCI)'s ICIT Colloquium (curated by Rajna Swaminathan)
Irvine, CA
Jen teaches masterclass at Manhattan School of Music
NYC
8pm, singing Letters: a project led by pianist Kris Davis and Mimi Chakarova - silent film project
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Performing "Pulling" with Reggie Workman, Ayana Workman, & Jason Kao Hwang, poetry by Maya Milenovic-Workman
Trinity Church, NY, NY
7pm Solo Performance on May 16, Georgetown Day School Jazz and Creative Music Residency
HS Black Box Theatre, Washington, D.C.
9pm ET, Performing "Pulling" with Reggie Workman, Ayana Workman, & Jason Kao Hwang, poetry by Maya Milenovic-Workman
Eric Dolphy Festival
The New School, NY, NY
Performing at Kaoru Watanabe's Bloodlines Interwoven Festival at Kaatsbaan Kultural Park
Co-presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center
Tivoli, NY
Jen performs at Vision Festival, NYC
Jen teaches at Siena Jazz Workshop
Siena, Italy
7pm ET at Asia Society: In the Green Room project with Sumi Tonooka
Performers: Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), Sumi Tonooka (piano), Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), Linda May Han Oh (bass)
Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as part of its Creative Inflections program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to support leading jazz artists and presenting organizations in innovative collaborations that enable artists to take creative risks and expand the genre’s listenership by attracting younger and more diverse audiences.
8pm ET, Carolina Performing Arts presents Jen Shyu's Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Digital Program also here)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
8:30pm, performing Immanuel Wilkins' Stone Residency
Immanuel Wilkins (alto sax), Susie Ibarra (drums), and Bill Frisell (guitar)
55 W. 13th St, NY, NY 10011
Jen Shyu Residency at the Stone (curated by John Zorn)
55 W. 13th St, NY, NY 10011
Feb. 16: Jen Shyu (voice) Ben Monder (guitar) featuring Reggie Workman (bass)
Feb. 17: Jen Shyu solo (voice, compositions, Taiwanese moon lute, piano, Japanese biwa)
Feb. 18: Jen Shyu (voice) Val Jeanty (SoundChemist) Sumi Tonooka (piano)
3:00pm - 4:30pm ET, Asian American Jazz Symposium at Columbia University
Complete Symposium 9am - 6:00pm, Register HERE
If sold out, you can join the webinar accessible HERE (Webinar ID: 952 3344 7391, Passcode: 231599)
Jen Shyu presents "Projecting Tradition Into the Future* in Three Solo Works" on a panel with Hafez Modirzadeh
Hosted by Kevin Fellezs, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, NY, NY
2pm, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses at Ampersand Festival 2023
Kimball Theatre, 428 W Duke of Gloucester St
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Jen performs Fertile Land, Fertile Body solo work-in-progress for the Music In the Mansion series
6:30pm & 8:30pm (2 sets), The Mansion at Strathmore
Tix $30 (complimentary wine included each set)
10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852
Jen Shyu teaches as Paul Simon Music Fellows Guest Artist at schools in NYC
7pm - 9pm, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) Celebration
Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony + Cohort 5 World Premiere Film Screening + Cohort 6 Announcement
NY, NY
10pm ET, Vision Festival at Roulette
With Reggie Workman's Celebration Band: Reggie Workman (bass), Odean Pope (tenor sax), Jason Moran (piano), Jen Shyu @jenshyu (vocals), Elijah Thomas (flute), Elizabeth Panzer (harp), Tapan Modak (tablas), and Gerry Hemingway (drums)
Tickets HERE for all events; Tickets HERE for Reggie Workman's Celebration Band
Brooklyn, NY
M³ Festival 2023 at Roulette, featuring 21 composer-performers-bandleaders from Cohorts 3 & 4
Tickets available here for Sept. 21, 22, & 23
Sept. 24: Closing reception and launch of New Suns Issue 9 + M³ Anthology 5 @ Center for Fiction
RSVP HERE before Sept. 8
Brooklyn, NY
6:30pm - 8pm (one set only) at the Jazz Gallery
"When the Ancestors Speak" Trio with Val Jeanty (SoundChemist), Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa), & Sumi Tonooka (piano)
Presented by Center for Remembering and Sharing
NY, NY
Giving a performance/lecture at Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2023 | The Creative and Transformative Spirit of Korean Music
Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
8pm, ArtBath, solo performance in the Sunken Garden (sold out! Email me to find out about waiting list)
Blue Building, NYC
Northern Illinois University Residency: Giving Keynote address for Rebel Music Conference, workshops music students and the NIU AAPI community
Dekalb, IL
6pm - 7pm ET, Free virtual panel "Electric Sonic Language: Arooj Aftab, La Doña, Jen Shyu, and Meklit in Conversation"
Zoom link HERE
3pm, Jen Shyu's "Projecting Tradition Into the Future in Three Solo Works" talk at Jessie Cox's series "the Comparing Domains of Improvisation"
RSVP here to attend in-person as well as Zoom
Columbia University, NYC