Sylvie Courvoisier TRIO feat. Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen

Sylvie Courvoisier is a Swiss-born composer, pianist, and improviser who has lived in New York City since 1998, working at the intersection of free jazz and experimental forms. As a bandleader, she builds sets that move between written material and open-ended interplay, with an ear for structure inside volatility.

Drew Gress is an American jazz double bassist and composer with roots in the Philadelphia area and long-standing ties to New York’s performance circuit. In the city he appears in varied settings, from Bar Bayeux with Igor Lumpert and Damion Reid to the Village Vanguard alongside Fred Hersch and Peter Erskine, and at The Jazz Gallery with the Sylvie Courvoisier Trio.

Kenny Wollesen is a drummer and percussionist working in jazz and related improvised music. In New York City, he is heard in venue rooms like Nublu and Ornithology Jazz Club, often in small-ensemble settings where the drum chair steers the conversation.

Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a native of Switzerland, has earned just renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the downtown jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades.