Quarantine Concert Series_#227: Alex Hamburger Quartet

An die Musik Live!

409 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Alex Hamburger Quartet

This is a recording of their live performance on March 25, 2021.

Alex Hamburger: Flute and Voice
José Luiz Martins: Piano
Tyrone Allen: Bass
Keith Butler Jr.: Drums

Growing up in Washington DC as the daughter of two accomplished artists -- a drummer and a dancer -- Alex's love for music started very early. She began studying classical flute at age 7 and soon began improvising and sitting in on her father's gigs. She later began studying jazz formally and became a member of Paul Carr's Jazz Academy of Washington where she got to play and sing all over the country with incredible musicians such as Randy Brecker, Javon Jackson, Warren Wolf and Carmen Bradford. 

After high school, Alex moved to New York to attend SUNY Purchase as a James Moody Scholar and had the opportunity to study with world-renowned musicians such as Gary Smulyan, Jon Faddis, Todd Coolman, Kenny Washington, Ingrid Jensen and Doug Weiss. Alex was also selected as a member of the Banff Jazz and Creative Music Program under the direction of Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey in 2017.

Since moving to New York, Alex has played at a variety of venues around the city such as Smalls, Birdland, The Blue Note, The Stone, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, Rockwood, The Falcon and The Zinc Bar as well as many venues and festivals internationally such as The Telluride Jazz Festival, The Vienna Jazz Festival, Basel Off Beat Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Porgy and Bess, Bohemian Carverns, The Jazz Educators Network Conference, and The Washington Women in Jazz Festival. She has played in many different groups as a side woman as well as her own projects.

In college, she was a co-leader of the HD Quintet that released a full-length album “Live in the Studio” and toured all around the East Coast. She now co-leads both a trio and duo project that both have released EP’s in 2019 (“Yarns” by Hamburger Papalardo Light and “Vapor Trails” by Alex Hamburger & José Luis Martins).

In fall of 2019, Alex was selected to be in the prestigious Focusyear band at the JazzCampus in Basel, Switzerland where she lived, studied and played for a year alongside masters such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Seamus Blake, Billy Childs, Guillermo Kien, Dave Liebmann, Jorge Rossy, Norma Winston and more. The band also recorded and released an album of original music "Open Paths" as well as toured around Europe. 

The Alex Hamburger Quartet is set to release their debut full-length album “And She Spoke”  in the Fall of 2021. This album is a collection of music by female composers that I've arranged and music I've written based on poetry by female poets, including Alex’s grandmother. Alex is also a 2021 recipient of the Chamber Music of America Performance Plus Grant where in which she and her quartet will be working with the great Ingrid Jensen.

Streaming cost is $10
Donations are welcomed

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