Susie Ibarra

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Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra (born November 15, 1970 in Anaheim , California ) is an American percussionist , jazz drummer and composer .

Life

Ibarra grew up in a family of doctors from the Philippines in Seabrook, Texas, near Houston . As a child she learned the piano; later she played drums in a punk band . During her stay at Sarah Lawrence College , a Sun Ra concert prompted her to study jazz more intensively. She completed her formal studies at Mannes College of Music and Goddard College , where she graduated with a BA . Ibarra has lived in New York since 1989 , where she first took drum lessons from Milford Graves . She learned Kulintang from Danongan Kalanduyan .

Ibarra initially worked as a percussionist and interpreted Southeast Asian gong music. She also increasingly worked in the field of new improvisation music and jazz. She played with the David S. Ware Quartet , the Matthew Shipp Trio , as well as with John Zorn , William Parker , Assif Tsahar (with whom she was married), Pauline Oliveros , Joëlle Léandre , Derek Bailey , Wadada Leo Smith , Yo La Tengo and Thurston Moore . In addition, she also appears as a soloist. Since 1999 she has been recording phonograms under her name; in addition, she continues to play with musicians of various genres. In the Susie Ibarra Trio she plays with Jennifer Choi and Craig Taborn , in the group Mephista with Sylvie Courvoisier and Ikue Mori ; she also works in a duo with Mark Dresser and in the quartet of John Lindberg . In the group Electric Kulintang with Roberto Rodriguez she contributes to Asian American Jazz . In 2011 she appeared on Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers . She also works with the pianist Yūko Fujiyama and in world music with the guitarist Johnny Alegre .

In addition to jazz pieces, she also composes opera and avant-garde music . At the moment she is probably best known as a jazz musician. Her expressive technique and the inclusion of different styles and genres such as blues , gamelan and kulintang are particularly outstanding.

Discographic notes

  • Home Cookin ' (Hopscotch 1998, with Assif Tsahar)
  • Radiance (Hopscotch, 1999, with Charles Burnham , Cooper Moore )
  • Songbird Suite ( Tzadik , 2001, with Jennifer Choi, Ikue Mori , Craig Taborn)
  • Mephista: Entomological Reflections ( Tzadik , 2003)

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SURNAME Ibarra, Susie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American percussionist, jazz drummer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Anaheim , California