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Francesca Prihasti
Prihasti graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2012 (BMus) and New York University in 2018 (MMus), during which time she studied privately with the likes of Judy Bailey and Mike Nock (AUS) as well as Kevin Hays, Alan Broadbent, Peter Bernstein, Drew Gress, Ari Hoenig and Alan Ferber (USA)
Prihasti has performed in Indonesia, Australia and the United States at various jazz venues and festivals such as Motion Blue Jakarta, Java Jazz Festival, Jazz goes to Campus, Jazzgroove Association, Venue 505, Colbourne Avenue, Manly Jazz Festival, Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, The Sound Lounge, Provincetown Playhouse, Silvana, Shrine, Club Bonafide, and ShapeShifter Lab.
In 2017, Prihasti was selected as a promising artist to represent the New York University jazz department with performances and masterclasses in Costa Rica.
Prihasti has released two albums of original compositions to critical acclaim with prominent New York jazz musicians. Her first release, “Night Trip” in 2014 featured Marco Panascia (double bass) and Ulysses Owens Jr. (drums), followed by her second album, “Evolving” in 2015 featuring Rodney Green (drums) and Orlando Le Fleming (double bass).
Prihasti’s third album “Adriana” is set for release in early 2019 featuring Drew Gress (bass), Dave Pietro (alto and soprano sax), Alan Ferber (trombone), Michael Rodriguez (trumpet and flugelhorn).
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Francesca Prihasti: Adriana
by Dan Bilawsky
Francesca Prihasti paints a series of fantastic notions and tuneful tales on Adriana. For this, her third album following Night Trip (Self Produced, 2014) and Evolving (Self Produced, 2015), the young pianist expands her palette while drawing meaning from the personal realm: The album's inspiration is Prihasti's late mother, Adriana, who passed away in May of 2017, so there's a woeful shadow of a sort cast across the project. But don't write this off as a downcast date. Rather than ...
read more“ Night Trip is a pleasant debut album, accomplished and tuneful, performed by a close-knit, inventive group” -The Australian, John Mcbeath-
“Evolving is an album of romantic music that floats and drifts idyllically with light rhythms and melodious concepts, following the composer’s narrative ideas. It’s expressively played, and the overall effect is one of agreeable harmoniousness” - The Australian, John McBeath -
“Prihasti’s sprightly solo glides with imaginative melodic ideas” - The Australian, John McBeath
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