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Anna Jalkéus

Anna Jalkéus is a Boston based singer, harpist, and composer known as a powerful, creative musician who writes genre bending music with fearlessness and originality. She has received many national awards such as the JEN Young Composer Showcase, Swedish Monica Zetterlund and Ted Gärdestad awards, scholarship from STIM (Swedish ASCAP), and was awarded “Outstanding Performance” with her band in DownBeat Student Music Awards 2017. She is a sought-after collaborator and frequently appears as a side(wo)man in experimental, contemporary jazz groups. Born in 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden, Anna grew up traveling worldwide with Swedish a cappella phenomenon The Real Group, seeing as both of her parents were original members. Since then, Anna has performed at major venues in US cities such as NYC, Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City, as well as internationally in Hong Kong, China, Germany, Norway, and all over Sweden, including a performance at the Stockholm Jazz Festival in 2013.

Anna Jalkéus Group’s debut album “Estrogenia” was released in 2018 and features ten of Anna’s compositions. The album’s title is the name of a super heroine created by Anna in 2016; Estrogenia is the protector of equality between all people regardless of gender, race or sexual orientation. Anna has also written and premiered a concerto for jazz voice, harp and orchestra entitled “The Rise of Estrogenia” covering Estrogenia’s origin story and her fight against her nemesis “The Nasty Orange Monster”. Anna is a highly respected educator and was a member of the renowned UNT Jazz faculty 2017- 2019, teaching voice lessons and improvisation as well as directing the award winning UNT Jazz Singers in the fall of 2018. She is an active performer, teaches lessons in jazz harp and composition, does studio work, and her compositions for harp ensemble will be published by Lyon&Healy Music early 2019. When she is not performing, composing or teaching, Anna enjoys horseback riding and playing the theremin.

Awards

2017 Travel Grants for World Harp Congress in Hong Kong $1,500 Awarded by UNT CoM, Toulouse Graduate School and UNT International. 2017 Downbeat Student Music Outstanding Performance Award Anna Jalkéus Group. Category: Small Vocal Jazz Group 2016 Young Composer Showcase Award Presented as a winner at the 2017 JEN Conference in New Orleans, LA with the small group composition “Above”. 2015 Monica Zetterlund Up-and-Coming Jazz Musician Award 2013 Ted Gärdestad Songwriting Award 2011 STIM (Swedish ASCAP) Composition Award


Tags

"Anna Jalkeus has carved her way onto the jazz/fusion world with her distinct band and sound of her own. Her debut album Estrogenia is a journey inside the artist. It's not linear or simple. It's a thought-provoking work of art. (...) Estrogenia is a compelling debut recording by a fascinating artist and equally compelling group. This is original jazz at its best." - Devon "Doc" Wendell, LA Jazz Times
Primary Instrument

Vocals

Location

Boston

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Bachelor of Music, Jazz Performance from Royal College of Music Stockholm '15 Graduate Artist Certificate, Performance from University of North Texas '17 Graduate Teaching Fellow at University of North Texas 2016-2017 Adjunct Faculty at University of North Texas 2017-2019 teaching jazz voice private lessons, advanced vocal improvisation and directing the UNT Jazz Singers and Avenue C vocal jazz ensembles. Available hours on a case-by-case basis, please contact [email protected] for most current info and rates.

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Estrogenia

Self-released
2018

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Estrogenia

From: Estrogenia
By Anna Jalkéus

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