Anat Fort

Anat Fort (born March 8, 1970 near Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli modern jazz pianist and composer.

Live and act

Fort grew up listening to classical music and taking piano lessons as a child. She began to improvise and compose at an early age. On the advice of her piano teacher, she studied at the Eastman School of Music and William Paterson University since the early 1990s , where she is tutored by Rufus Reid and Harold Mabern . In 1996 she moved to New York City, where she studied with Paul Bley and Harold Seletsky. The musician founded her own band and became an important part of New York's alternative jazz scene. On her second album she interpreted her compositions with a top-class band; This in-house production was taken over by Manfred Eicher in the program of the label ECM, which he runs. On her third album “And If”, released in 2010, the pianist presents herself with her regular trio, with whom she has been working in New York for ten years.

She also writes chamber and symphonic music.

Discography

• Peel (Orchard Records 1999, with Andreas Henze, Heinrich Köbberling , Aaron Stewart, Dan Nadel)
• A Long Story (ECM 2004, with Perry Robinson , Ed Schuller , Paul Motian )
• And If (ECM, 2009, with Garry Wang, Roland Schneider)
• Anat Fort, Gianluigi Trovesi Birdwatching (ECM, 2016, with Garry Wang, Roland Schneider)
• Anat Fort Trio: Color ( Sunnyside Records , 2019)

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait at Arte ( Memento from December 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait at AllAboutJazz
• Anat Fort at Allmusic (English)