Catherine Sikora

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Catherine Sikora (* around 1980 in West Cork ) is an Irish jazz musician ( tenor , soprano and alto saxophone ).

Live and act

Sikora started her career as an autodidact . She then studied jazz interpretation in England before moving to New York City in 2000 to work in the avant-garde and modern creative jazz scene there (after a deliberate break in which she further developed her artistic approach) . She played in the duo Clockwork Mercury (with Eric Mingus ), in the formation Eris 136199 (with Han-Earl Park and Nick Didkovsky ), in a duo with Ziv Ravitz and as a soloist. She was involved in the recording of Whitney Moulton and François Grillot .

Sikora toured Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. In autumn 2014 she was Artist in Residence at the Center Culturel Irlandais in Paris, where she was working on a project inspired by the stories of her female ancestors. She was also the soloist in Eric Mingus' radical reinterpretation of the opera Tommy at the 2015 Adelaide Festival . The album Untitled: After (2018), presented with drummer Brian Chase , builds on the epic poem Beowulf . She also played with Elliott Sharp , Joe Giardullo , Karl Berger , Matt Lavelle , Ras Moshe , Art Bailey , Jeremy Bacon and Stanley J. Zappa .

Discographic notes

  • Eric Mingus, Catherine Sikora: Clockwork Mercury (2007)
  • Catherine Sikora, Ian Smith, Han-earl Park: Sikora-Smith-Park (Cork, 04-04-11) (2012)
  • Catherine Sikora, Han-earl Park, François Grillot: Tracks in the Dirt (2013)
  • Elemental (2013, with Ziv Ravitz )
  • Jersey (2016)
  • Christopher Culpo & Catherine Sikora: The Spectral Life of Things (2018)
  • Sikora / Culpo-Duo: The Paris Sessions, Volume 1: Mimesis (2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait (jazzrightnow.com)
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 21, 2019)
  3. ↑ biography
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Review ( All About Jazz )
personal data
SURNAME Sikora, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish jazz musician (saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH West Cork