Improvisors Exchange Workshop: Janel and Anthony

Together and separately, both musicians have long been an important and active part of Washington D.C.’s new-music scene. Anthony Pirog, an omnivorous, multi-faceted guitarist who studied jazz at Berklee and has performed country, fingerstyle, rock and surf music and Janel Leppin, a conservatory trained cellist steeped in North Indian and Persian classical music, who also plays electric bass in rock bands, have created a lavishly detailed musical journey, by turns ravishing and harrowing. Janel and Anthony alternately charm and challenge, with music that draws from classical, experimental, jazz, rock and electronic traditions but that ultimately is simply theirs.

This workshop will introduce Janel & Anthony’s collaborative process in composition and improvisation, and the musical influences that inform their practice.

Janel and Anthony have releases on Cuneiform Records. More info available at Cuneiform Records

Improvisers Exchange programming is supported by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and University of Illinois School of Music.

Open to All, Admission Free

Photo by Shervin Lainez, courtesy of Cuneiform Records