photo: Susie Knoll

Theo Bleckmann. A jazz singer and new music
composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, GRAMMY NOMINATED and
ECHO award recipient Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly
sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful, leading
his work to be described as “from another planet” (New York Times), as
“magical, futuristic,” (AllAboutJazz), “limitless” (Citypaper,
Philadelphia) “transcendent” (Village Voice) and “brilliant” (New York
Magazine).

Bleckmann has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent
albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas
standards, of Berlin Kabarett, and of popular “bar songs” (all with
pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles
Ives (with jazz/rock collective Kneebody), and his new acoustic Solos
for Voice “I dwell in possibility”.
Bleckmann has additionally collaborated with musicians and
composers, including Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, John Hollenbeck,
Sheila Jordan, Phil Kline, David Lang, Kirk Nurock, Ben Monder, Michael
Tilson Thomas, Julia Wolfe, John Zorn, the Bang on a Can All-stars, and,
most prominently, Meredith Monk, with whom Bleckmann worked as a core
ensemble member for fifteen years.
He has recently been interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the Letterman show with Laurie Anderson.