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Catherine

Upcoming shows:

Sun, April 22, 8:00pm – 10:30pm

Matt Lavelle's Twelve Houses, (large ensemble)

Firehouse Space, 246 Frost Street, Brooklyn. L to Graham Avenue

Friday April 27th

Duo with Cynthia Chathis (part of the Jazzmouth Festival)

The Press Room, Portsmouth, NH

Saturday, April 28th

With Eric Mingus

Jazzmouth Festival, Portsmouth, NH

Tuesday May 15th, 7:30-10pm

Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra

Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013

Sunday, May 27

COMA/ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002

Trio with Han-earl Park and Nick Didkovsky

  Catherine Sikora, Saxophonist

Equipment:

Catherine is proud to play Bari reeds and a Soprano Planet mouthpiece.

Press:

Sikora is a free-blowing player’s player with a spectacular harmonic imagination and an evolved understanding of the tonal palette of the saxophone.

-Chris Elliot, April 4 2007

I just picked up this cd, Lullabies for Wolves, last night direct from the artist and I'm really blown away. I was in town to see David Ware solo at the Stone and stopped by another venue just to grab this cd. The band, Beasts at Play, consists of Catherine Sikora on tenor and Ziv Ravitz on drums. It's a passionate, soulful cd reminiscent of Kidd Jordon's essential "Palm of Soul" release. Sikora's plaintive wail really grooves throughout. I highly recommend finding this… I don't know her and I've yet to see her live but this cd smokes. My favorite release of 07 thus far.

-Kevin O’Reilly, March 12 2007

A fascinating experience, listening to this recording. It reminds me of some of the things Max Roach did with Archie Shepp. I met Catherine a few weeks ago, and she had a number of interesting things to say about how the music came about.

I only have a raw provisional copy of the CD; I didn't know the definite one has come out in the meantime. Got to get one myself one of these days.

-Thomas Kohler, March 13 2007

All About Jazz forum

Sikora, who absolutely burns on “My Favorite Things,” deserves special mention—not only for her work on that tune, where she gets inside of Coltrane's style, but anywhere she plays.

-Budd Kopman, All About Jazz, October 2006

Sikora’s statements on tenor and soprano saxophone paid great attention to both silence and sound; her lines were as sharply defined as a strand of carefully spaced gems on a necklace.

-Fred Cisterna, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006

A creator of dissonant and melodic flowing lines, Sikora speaks clearly through her sax. Her phrases are purposeful statements and no notes are wasted.

-Noah Marmar, April 2006

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Photo by Jason X Lee