About this Event
Join us at the Escondido Music and Arts Company for a solo performance by NYC-based jazz pianist Yvonne Rogers! She will be performing a suite of originals in celebration of her most recent album The Button Jar. Don't miss it!!
“The Button Jar, the solo release from pianist and composer Yvonne Rogers, presents a singular and compelling new voice on the instrument that reflects a wisdom beyond her years… She can plumb the depths of feeling with the sparest line, and she can swamp your gunwales with harmonically dense and highly kinetic compositions while subverting rhythmic expectations and taking occasional short, explosive side trips—possibly with a dose of humor…. an exceptionally original, imaginative, and wise effort.” – Mel Minter, Musically Speaking (Read the Full Interview)
“A gorgeously introspective recording that underlines her gifts both as composer and improviser…. The music is distinguished by a vivid imagination that seems to draw from a vast range of sources and inspirations, with a palpable grasp and knowledge of jazz and classical traditions that’s impressive in such a young player. More impressive is how she weaves them together. There’s nothing on this record that lacks purpose, and there’s something admirable about a musician who doesn’t find the need to overload their first major recording with ideas…. The Button Jar feels like a statement.” – Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street (Read the Full Review)
"She belongs to this new generation of talented and adventurous pianists, which also includes Craig Taborn, Alexander Hawkins, Sylvie Courvoisier, and Kris Davis herself. One would give anything to see and hear her play live.” – Eric Therer, Jazzmania (Read the Full Review)
Yvonne Rogers is a pianist, composer, and multimedia artist from Maine, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Described as a “Fresh, new voice on piano,” (Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Collective), she is in demand as both a side-person and bandleader in New York and beyond. She has performed at venues and festivals including the Jazz Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, the Blue Note, Mezzrow, Smalls, Bar Bayeux, the Kennedy Center, NYC Winter Jazz Fest, Jamboree (ES), Porgy and Bess (AT), Birdseye (CH), the DC Jazz Festival, the Deer Isle Jazz Festival, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. She has performed with artists including Ralph Alessi, Linda May Han Oh, Ingrid Laubrock, Harish Raghavan, Sara Serpa, and more. Yvonne is a 2024 Next Jazz Legacy Awardee, a grant recognizing outstanding women in jazz founded by Terri Lyne Carrington and facilitated by New Music USA. She is a commissioned artist for the 2025 Duck Creek Arts Music Series, where she will premier new music for her quartet. Yvonne was a member of the 2021/2022 Focusyear Band in Basel, Switzerland, where she performed with jazz masters including Kris Davis, Sullivan Fortner, Tineke Postma, Jorge Rossy, Larry Grenadier, Lionel Loueke, Chris Cheek, Elena Pinderhughes, Miguel Zenón, and more. Yvonne has been awarded a variety of other opportunities and accolades including the 2025 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency, the 2024 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award from ASCAP, Dee Dee Bridgewater’s Woodshed Network Residency, Ralph Alessi’s School of Improvised Music, and the Sisters in Jazz Combo in which she worked with Ingrid Jensen. In October 2022 she was commissioned by the Big Basel Festival and Fondation Beyeler to compose and conduct a piece for large ensemble inspired by a Louise Bourgeois sculpture. A 2021 graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester, Yvonne holds two degrees: a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano Performance from the studio of Gary Versace and a Bachelor of Arts in African and African American Studies.
Currently Yvonne performs with Ingrid Laubrock’s “Lilith,” Adam O'Farrill’s “Elephant,” and Alden Hellmuth’s “Good Intentions,” as well as leading her quartet. Her debut album “Seeds” was released in 2023 on Relative Pitch Records and is available on Bandcamp and all other streaming platforms. Yvonne’s work is rooted in improvisation and play. Growing up on the rural Maine coast, Yvonne began writing music that followed the meditative patterns and systems of nature before having any conventional understanding of theory or harmony. She carries this sense of creative abandon with her wherever she is in the world.
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The Escondido Music and Art Company, 121 East Grand Avenue, Escondido, United States
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