12/28 Daniela Schächter Trio
December 28, 2024 07:00 PM until December 28, 2024 10:00 PM
Live music is back on stage at The Mad Monkfish! For those who can't make it to the Jazz Baroness Room, Monkfish now streams live all of its performances on their Facebook page. 1st Show: 7:00-8:15pm and 2nd Show: 8:45-10:00pm
Daniela Schächter, piano & voice
John Lockwood, acoustic bass
Les Harris Jr., drums
Daniela Schächter jazz vocalist, pianist and composer. By her mid-teens was already performing publicly in Sicily, Italy, as well as doing studio session work. Daniela has won many prestigious awards, such as the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition 2005, The Sister in Jazz Competition 2002, the Betty Carters Jazz Ahead Competition 2002, the Tindari 93, Prize for the best jazz duo with her brother Davide. Daniela has performed with John Clayton Jr. and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, John Dankworth, the New York Voices, Terri Lyne Carrington, Patti Austin, Kevin Mahogany, Carmen Lundy, Regina Carter, Christian McBride, Ingrid Jensen, Tiger Okoshi, Shirley Horn and Al McKibbon among others. She has also been conducted by Quincy Jones, Patrick Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Clayton Jr., Elmer Bernstein, Bob Brookmeyer, Justin DiCioccio and Phil Wilson. Daniela Schächter was guest artist of the prestigious Marian McPartland Piano Jazz radio program, the Java Jazz Festival and the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival in 2006. She is currently leading her group in several venues in New York and Boston, where she resides.
Her fourth album “Vanheusenism” A Tribute To Jimmy Van Heusen was released in October 2016.
Daniela is Professor at Berklee College of Music Boston MA since 2008.