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ANAT COHEN QUARTETINHOThursday, January 15, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Center for Contemporary Arts
Santa Fe, NM
All About Jazz sings her praises as “One of the greatest…of our time.” More than any other, Anat Cohen is credited with “bringing the clarinet to the world.” With a satchel full of Grammy nominations in the World Music and Latin Jazz categories, Anat (clarinet & sax) and her ensemble of multi-instrumentalist virtuosos from around the world explore modern jazz, African grooves, New Orleans styles, and the lively sounds of Brazil and Latin America.
Bloom, Anat’s 21st album as a leader or co-leader and the second with her small group Quartetinho, was issued to rave reviews and a hit trans-Atlantic tour in 2024, with All About Jazz applauding the band’s “daring virtuosity and soulful joie de vivre.” Hot on the heels of that release comes a new live album: Interaction, issued by Anat’s label, Anzic Records, in 2025. Interaction presents the clarinetist as part of The 3 Cohens, the long-running family band that also stars her brothers, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval (both ECM artists). They were recorded in concert with Germany’s WDR Big Band, an ensemble renowned not only for its sound but also its collaborative flair. The arranger-conductor for Interaction is Anat’s Anzic comrade Oded Lev-Ari, who also plays that role with her Tentet, the 10-piece group that she has showcased at such venues as Carnegie Hall and SFJAZZ’s Miner Auditorium. Anat’s multiple Grammy nominations include one for 2019’s Triple Helix, the second album by the Tentet.
Anat has been credited as a primary force for re-establishing the clarinet as a solo instrument in the 21st century. She has been named Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007, and she has also been the top clarinetist in both the readers and critics polls in DownBeat every year since 2011.
Anat was born in Tel Aviv and attended the Tel Aviv School for the Arts, the Jaffa Music Conservatory, and later the Berklee College of Music, where she honed her jazz chops and expanded her musical horizons. She spent a decade touring with Sherrie Maricle’s all-woman big band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra; she also worked in such Brazilian groups as the Choro Ensemble and Duduka Da Fonseca’s Samba Jazz Quintet, along with performing the music of Louis Armstrong with David Ostwald’s “Gully Low Jazz Band.” Anat soon began to bend ears and turn heads; whether playing clarinet, soprano saxophone or tenor saxophone. In 2009, Anat became the first Israeli to headline at the Village Vanguard, the setting for perhaps the most celebrated live recordings in jazz history. Widely considered one of the world’s greatest clarinetists, she has been making history ever since.
GA $59 (rows 4 & back). PREMIER $89 (rows 1 – 3). Doors @ 7PM / Performance @ 7:30 / no opener.
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Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, 1050 Old Pecos Trl, Santa Fe, NM 87505-0397, United States
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