https://www.danajessen.com/about daily 1.0 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1539199753383-SX7JWWGP7V057EI9IA41/Splintereeds_1100.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1518384371584-Q8TYP33W0PWPW4Z13MLH/Jessen_Reed.jpg About https://www.danajessen.com/schedule daily 0.75 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/b7d1dd5f-2452-4ec0-b79d-74751ba1a9f2/BOAC_2021_Stephanie+Berger+photographer.JPG Schedule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/dba4bb2d-2e60-4ccc-92d1-2d89c851240c/22_09-15_Splinter-Reeds-0310.jpg Schedule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1571342965057-6N2H3HQZRMA9L9P0QKR3/Jessen_Reed.jpg Schedule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/b99a8fee-eefd-46a7-8ace-0d097d32da5e/Dana_QubitPic1.jpeg Schedule - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/ad0b6ee9-4e53-4df4-ab75-456af55181d8/Rushes_Brugge.JPG Schedule - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.danajessen.com/media daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://www.danajessen.com/recordings daily 0.75 2023-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/bc6414d0-ba8a-4957-9c28-0e3083752698/690277901249_FrontCover_digital.jpg Recordings - Set (2023) by Dana Jessen and Taylor Brook on New Focus Recordings Set is a collaborative work that combines through-composed material with electroacoustic improvisations, resulting in an immersive musical experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1606871032147-ZNNVCAVDZK745GXZJS5N/Winter+Chapel+Cover+Final.png Recordings - Winter Chapel (2020) on Carrier Records In her second solo album, Winter Chapel explores the physicality of music through improvisations that are informed by acoustic space and the resulting physical experience of sound. "A remarkable album of disruptive beauty" - Avant Music News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1611866447312-5RJCP3EUDDCHA1Y6KSGB/690277900280_Frontcover_Digital.jpg Recordings - George Lewis’ Recombinant Trilogy (2021) on New Focus Recordings George Lewis’ new album features solo works with interactive electronics written for Claire Chase, Seth Parker Woods, and Dana Jessen. Seismologic (2017) for bassoon and four-channel sound is inspired by the seismic movement of massive faults. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1550196020098-VFM3UMRDVALGZH7JZ3B0/01+Carve+Cover+Image+Web.jpg Recordings - Carve (2017) on Innova Records Debut solo album featuring premiere recordings of works for bassoon and electronics by Paula Matthusen, Sam Pluta, Peter V. Swendsen, and Kyle Bruckmann. "Hers is an expressive presence with a warm tone and a refined vibrato, both of which preserve a humanistic heart in the midst of technological embellishment...In the end, it's Jessen's appealing musical personality that animates this outstanding collection of work." - Avant Music News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1599662497471-YOCW88Z7BF2XIWHOY10N/fcr222_cover.540x0.jpg Recordings - Hypothetical Islands (2019) on New Focus Recordings Splinter Reeds presents a bracing program of new works written for the group by composers Sky Macklay, Matthew Shlomowitz, Cara Haxo, Eric Wubbels, Theresa Wong, and Yannis Kyriakides. All of the works display an envelope pushing impulse that stretches the boundaries of this traditional instrumental format, carving out new repertoire and provoking new aesthetic perspectives. “On their second album, this agile quintet of single and double reed instruments embrace a more challenging and rigorous set of pieces… It’s hard to think of another reed ensemble project that drives so relentlessly.”- Peter Margasak, Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1549486568005-QOC5627EFFIE2U3FEZQJ/02+Ingrid+Laubrock.jpg Recordings - Ingrid Laubrock’s Contemporary Chaos Practices (2018) on Intakt Records Recording of Ingrid Laubrock’s two works, Contemporary Chaos Practices and Vogelfrei. Ingrid’s many reviews can be found HERE. Additionally, Vogelfrei was included in the NY Times Best 25 Classical Tracks of 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1606872048210-J608N4G2HD6RSWNGQXVT/Wig+31+Cover+def.jpg Recordings - Solo Songs For Instruments (2020) on Wig and Catalytic Sound Recording of Ig Henneman's Hardwood Floorboards for improvising bassoonist that incorporates the poetry of Sarah Lawson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1549487301344-OGP4PGKWPMUFJMNT9D42/ca21097_rushes_front.jpg Recordings - Rushes (2014) on Cantaloupe Records Recording of Michael Gordon's Rushes, an hour-long piece for seven bassoons. "These bassoonists make absolute light of the formidable challenges of technique, ensemble, and pitch that this music presents. They somehow achieve a luminous, unified glow that would not be possible with lesser forces or lesser players." - Q2 Music Album of the Week Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1599684916628-9YG24P43WZ20NF4QRUH5/Meshes+Thumbnail.jpg Recordings - Billy Martin’s Meshes (2020) on Amulet Records Recording of Billy Martin’s Meshes, a suite of conducted improvisations for ensemble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555878892116-7121V5GOHMJBVEZUHGXM/04+Splinter+Got+Stung+Cover+Image.png Recordings - Got Stung (2015) on Splinter Reeds Recordings Debut album from Splinter Reeds featuring new music by Marc Mellits, Ryan Brown, Ned McGowan, Erik DeLuca, Kyle Bruckmann and Jordan Glenn. "With this release of six new and recent works, Splinter Reeds, a quintet from the San Francisco Bay area, reveals the richness of color inherent in a small, all-reed ensemble." - Avant Music News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555879513128-9W43LVKOPQK6LUG5NMEH/06+allusions+swendsen.jpg Recordings - Allusions to Seasons and Weather (2014) on Oberlin Music Recording of Peter V. Swendsen's Northern Circles for bassoon, saxophone and electronics. "The music's greatest strength here is, well, its musicality. The field recordings and electronics are balanced powerfully with traditional musical elements – harmonic movement, fragmented folk figures, sounds of wind and water that coalesce into hypnotic stretches of rhythmic regularity." - Q2 Music Album of the Week Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555878840149-37U8GJDZI32UYGKWXVMV/03+Kemper+.png Recordings - Mythical Spaces (2018) on Ravello Records Recording of Steven Kemper's In Illo Tempore for saxophone, bassoon, AMI: Automated Monochord Instrument, and CARI: Cylindrical Aerophone Robotic Instrument. Gramophone Review can be found HERE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555881236194-O6OLR6LYUNGFIXYQNEXR/10+tricentric.jpg Recordings - Music of Dan Blake, Taylor Ho Bynum, & Ingrid Laubrock: Agora, Questions of Transfiguration, Vogelfrei (2016) on Tri-Centric Live recording of original compositions by Taylor Ho Bynum and Ingrid Laubrock with the Tri-Centric Orchestra, conducted by Taylor Ho Bynum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555880589559-OUNEKU9BVHAFCIKEYBGG/07+CalefaXL.jpg Recordings - CalefaXL (2011) on RIOJA Music by Bach, Ter Doest, Ravel, Reich, Strauss, Vleggar and Wagner arranged for 12 Reed Instruments. "CalefaXL juggles with notes, and keeps these in the air in a grand manner."- De Volkskrant "As CalefaXL, the twelve reed players shone...with new compositions and inventive arrangements."- Lonneke Regter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555880786804-87HHZA7KBTJFRJYWVR21/08+U-experimental.jpg Recordings - U-EX(perimental) (2011) on Evil Rabbit Records Improvisations with Meinrad Kneer, Mark Alban Lotz, Jodi Gilbert, Alfredo Genovesi, Guillaume Heurtebize, Mary Oliver, Yedo Gibson, Felicity Provan, Joost Buis, Koenraad Ecker and Maraatsj ten Hoorn. Several reviews linked HERE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1555881071101-7LAX3VQ4V3OHNPT7X082/09+lapidation.jpg Recordings - Anthony Coleman: Lapidation (2007) on New World Records Recording of I Diet On Cod perforomed by the Retake Iowa Ensemble. "The five pieces included were written over the span of the last decade, ranging from a piano solo to horn-heavy tentet, but despite the span of time over which they were composed, they show a strong and coherent voice, coming together something like a suite rich with Schoenberg-ian swells and instrumental tensions." - All About Jazz https://www.danajessen.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/062446a1-99ce-4be2-9391-e8738a507585/22_09-15_Splinter-Reeds-0084.jpg Projects SPLINTER REEDS Splinter Reeds is a paradigm-shifting reed quintet, celebrated for their virtuosic performances and adventurous programming. For more than a decade, the ensemble has been instrumental in shepherding new compositions into the contemporary chamber music repertoire by some of the foremost composers of our time while equally championing music by a new generation of artists. Founded in 2013 in Oakland, California, the ensemble comprises five musicians who are pioneers of their practice, individually expanding the possibilities of their instruments and collectively reimagining what a modern reed quintet can sound like. Splinter Reeds features Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Bill Kalinkos (clarinet), Nicki Roman (saxophone), Jeff Anderle (bass clarinet), and Dana Jessen (bassoon). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/5a0fda04-1780-4672-9041-7ae1619d55e2/Dana_QubitPic1.jpeg Projects - (un) WIRED Dana Jessen's (un) Wired is a solo electroacoustic and improvisatory project that incorporates sonic environments and live processing through Ted Moore's DJII interface. Jessen and Moore’s ongoing collaborative process began in 2021 and has led to performances that showcase Jessen's unique musical language interacting and improvising with live digital processes and sound worlds. (un) Wired has been presented at Splendor in Amsterdam, Cleveland’s CUSP Series, and the SPLICE Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/2c4f8373-2d9c-4708-b441-148d46c54f8b/SPLICE%2BBlank.png Projects SPLICE MUSIC SPLICE is an organization dedicated to the performance, creation, and development of music for performers and electronics. SPLICE is comprised of an annual Institute designed for performers and composers to study the integration of performance with electronics, the Ensemble who focuses on cultivating a canon of electroacoustic works, and an annual two-day Festival of concerts that blend engaging live performances with new technologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1878feb6-7c15-4ecb-8ede-76eba9c92a1f/01+Carve+Cover+Image+Web.jpg Projects CARVE Carve is Dana Jessen's solo program of music for bassoon and electronics, as well as the title of her debut solo album that blurs the lines between composition, interpretation, and improvisation. Jessen has cultivated a solo electroacoustic canon that includes works by George Lewis, Taylor Brook, Sam Pluta, Paula Matthusen, Peter V. Swendsen, and Kyle Bruckmann, among many others. She has been presented as a soloist at Amsterdam's Splendor, Studio LOOS in the Hague, the American Academy in Rome, University of Chicago’s CHIMEFest, Stanford's CCRMA, the Innova Festival in Minneapolis, the SPLICE Institute, Oberlin Conservatory, NYC's Avant Music Festival, SONiC Festival, and Bohemian National Hall, the Third Practice Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Wet Ink Presents series, and Chicago's Constellation, among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/a634afd1-eafc-4c5a-9dbf-eb7acb9b8806/DanaJessen_ReedCase-2%281%29.jpg Projects Jessen has additional ongoing projects including: Tendrils with Katherine Young and Ben Roidl-Ward; a trio with Sam Pluta and Eric Wubbels; a duo with Stephan Haluska; and is a regular collaborator with the Splice Ensemble. https://www.danajessen.com/carve daily 0.75 2019-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/1525973855047-RM8CW1QIXOZ8649R6WIJ/Carve+Cover+Image.jpg Carve CARVE Carve is Dana Jessen's solo program of music for bassoon and electronics, as well as the title of her debut solo album that blurs the lines between composition, interpretation, and improvisation. The program includes acoustic improvisations that are featured alongside commissioned works by composers Paula Matthusen, Peter V. Swendsen, Sam Pluta, and Kyle Bruckmann. The program is regularly expanding and the most recent addition is a new work by composer George Lewis called Seismologic for bassoon and four-channel sound. Her solo work has been presented at Amsterdam's Splendor, Studio LOOS in the Hague, the American Academy in Rome, Stanford's CCRMA, the Innova Festival in Minneapolis, Oberlin Conservatory's Stull Recital Hall, the SPLICE Institute in Kalamazoo, NYC's Avant Music Festival, NYC's SONiC Festival, the Third Practice Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Wet Ink Presents series in New York, and Chicago's Constellation venue, among others. Purchase from Innova Recordings https://www.danajessen.com/past-events daily 0.75 2021-01-28 https://www.danajessen.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://www.danajessen.com/set daily 0.75 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/bc6414d0-ba8a-4957-9c28-0e3083752698/690277901249_FrontCover_digital.jpg Set - Set by Dana Jessen and Taylor Brook Bassoonist Dana Jessen and composer Taylor Brook team up for a collaborative album length electro-acoustic work, Set, that combines through composed (Songs) and improvised sections. Much attention in the composed sections is devoted to an exploration of a range of extended techniques on the bassoon that Jessen has cultivated. The improvised sections are framed by guidelines that Brook provided and computer improvisation that accompanies the instrumental soloist. In these ways, the boundaries between composer and performer are blurred. Set is Jessen's third solo album and newest addition to the canon of works she has cultivated that blur the lines between composition, improvisation, and interpretation. Set was released in 2023 as part of the New Focus Recordings catalog and can also be found on Bandcamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a711b1d268b96c8d99a07c2/76a74629-3dd3-424e-9b95-4efb84ab3dd8/690277901249_BackCover.jpg Set