Anat Cohen Quartetinho at Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York City, USA.
Date: Saturday, October 04, 2025
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Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts
kicks off its 2025-26 Jazz series with
Anat Cohen Quartetinho
The magnetic, prolific Grammy-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist returns to Miller
Saturday, October 4, 7:30PM
Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street)
Tickets starting at $25; Students with valid ID starting at $10
Saturday, October 4, 2025, 7:30PM
Anat Cohen Quartetinho
The charismatic and prolific Grammy-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen brings her expressive artistry and magnetic stage presence back to Miller. Named “Clarinetist of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007 and a perennial favorite in DownBeat’s critics and readers polls, Cohen and her vibrant quartet perform an evening of music rich with swing, Brazilian rhythms, and adventurous improvisation.
Artists
Anat Cohen, clarinet
Vitor Gonçalves, piano
Tal Mashiach, bass
James Shipp, drums
About the Artists
Anat Cohen, clarinet
http://www.anatcohen.com
Clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has established a wide-ranging career over the past two and a half decades as a soloist, bandleader, collaborator, and composer. She has been credited as a primary force in re-establishing the clarinet as a solo instrument in the 21st century. Cohen 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.
Cohen has performed across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and India, headlining at the Newport and Umbria jazz festivals as well at the Chicago’s Symphony Center and New York’s Village Vanguard. As a collaborator, she has worked with artists ranging from Latin jazz star Paquito D’Rivera and breakout vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant to arthouse pianist Fred Hersch and the all-star, all-woman band Artemis, among others. Coinciding with her solo appearance on the cover of DownBeat’s March 2025 issue, she played four milestone concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
In 2024, Cohen released Bloom, her 21st album as a leader or co-leader and the second with her small group Quartetinho. In March 2025, she released Interaction on Anzic Records, the label she co-founded. The live recording features her family ensemble, The 3 Cohens—alongside her brothers, trumpeter Avishai and saxophonist Yuval Cohen—with Germany’s WDR Big Band. The project was arranged and conducted by Oded Lev-Ari, who also works with her Anat Cohen Tentet. That ensemble has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and SFJAZZ’s Miner Auditorium. In 2019, the Tentet’s second album Triple Helix was nominated for a Grammy Award. Since 2005, Cohen has recorded and released music on Anzic Records, ranging from small group projects, large ensemble work, and recordings exploring a world of musical styles. Not only have many of her albums as a leader included Brazilian classics and original pieces that Cohen composed under the influence of choro, samba, bossa nova and more; the clarinetist has also devoted multiple albums completely to Brazilian music, including Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with Brazilian guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro), both of which were Grammy-nominated.
Cohen teaches at the Stanford University Jazz Workshop, The New School, among other institutions, and has been Jazz Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute.
Vitor Gonçalves, piano
http://www.vitorgoncalvesmusic.com
Vitor Gonçalves is a pianist, accordionist, composer, and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an illustrious career in Brazil, playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Itiberê Zwarg, and many others, Gonçalves moved to New York City in 2012, where he currently resides. In addition to leading his own projects, Gonçalves collaborates with Anat Cohen, Vinícius Cantuária, Anthony Wilson, Cyro Baptista, and Yotam Silberstein, among others. Ensembles that he co-leads include SanfoNYa Brasileira and Regional de NY.
Gonçalves performs regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, and The Jazz Gallery, and has played in jazz festivals and venues around the world, including Newport Jazz, Jazz à Vienne, Umbria Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Coliseum in Lisbon, Portugal. He has been featured in NPR’s Jazz Night in America hosted by Christian McBride and The New York Times as a guest of Spok Frevo Orquestra.
In 2017, Gonçalves released his debut album on Sunnyside Records, Vitor Gonçalves Quartet, featuring Dan Weiss (drums), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Todd Neufeld (guitar). He received two 2020 GRAMMY nominations, for Best Latin Jazz Album with Thalma de Freitas and for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album with Anat Cohen Tentet.
Tal Mashiach, bass
http://www.talmashiach.com
Tal Mashiach is a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, performer, and composer based in Brooklyn. Born in Israel, he studied classical guitar and double bass, winning first prize at the national guitar competition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and receiving annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation for classical and jazz studies.
In 2015, after receiving a full scholarship from The New School, Mashiach moved to New York. Since then, he has performed and toured with artists including Avishai Cohen, Anat Cohen, Mulatu Astatke, Jeff Ballard, Nasheet Waits, Jason Lindner, Ravi Coltrane, Justin Brown, Shai Maestro, Omer Avital, among many others, at venues and festivals around the world including Carnegie Hall, Blue Note NY, Newport Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, Pit Inn Tokyo, SFJAZZ, Umbria Jazz, Montreal Jazz Festival. In addition to his work as a sideman, Mashiach leads the TM Street Band and GTO Trio. His most recent project, Tiyul, a solo album featuring his original compositions on classical guitar, was released in 2022.
James Shipp, drums
http://www.jamesshipp.com
James Shipp is a vibraphonist, percussionist, synthesist, and songwriter based in Brooklyn. Over the past 15 years, he has performed, recorded, and toured internationally with many of New York City’s leading artists. Trained as a jazz vibraphonist, he has become a sought-after Brazilian percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist, a composer for experimental theater, and a recording producer. He currently performs with the Anat Cohen Quartetinho and Tentet, Jean Rohe and the End of the World Show, Banda Magda, the Nadje Noordhuis Quintet, and Christina Courtin (Pilot Violet), and is the percussionist for Clube de Choro do Brooklyn. He has also recorded and performed with Paquito D’Rivera, Kurt Elling, Snarky Puppy, Bokanté, Becca Stevens, Sting, the Kronos Quartet, and others. He was nominated for two Grammys in 2020 for his contributions on vibes and percussion to the Anat Cohen Tentet’s Triple Helix and Miho Hazama and M Unit’s Dancer in Nowhere.
As a leader, Shipp writes and performs satirical songs and has released James Shipp Sings His Famous Songs (2022) and Strange Sweethearts in America (2009) with his band Nós Novo. With trumpeter Nadje Noordhuis, he has released Indigo (2017) and Multitudes (2023). He is also a member of the MakeSpeak Ensemble.
For more than a decade, Shipp has worked with Carnegie Hall’s social impact programs, directing and producing the Lullaby Project, the Future Music Project Ensemble, and music programming at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Two of his lullabies appeared on the Universal Music release Hopes and Dreams. In 2016, Shipp was a faculty artist at the Silk Road Ensemble’s Global Musician Workshop. He earned a B.M. and an M.M. from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.
About Miller Theatre
http://www.millertheatre.com
One of New York City’s most vital music venues, Miller Theatre at Columbia University is a thriving home for contemporary and early music that serves audiences, composers, and musicians. Founded in 1988, Miller’s mission is to develop new audiences; foster enthusiasm for the arts by pioneering new programming approaches; educate the public by presenting specialized programs to a broad audience; discover diverse repertoire and commission new works; and share the University’s intellectual riches with the public. Led by Executive Director Melissa Smey, Miller Theatre sparks engagement and personal connections to music through distinctive live performances and is deeply committed to fostering collaborative relationships with the composers and musicians who make this possible.
Miller Theatre’s 2025-26 Season is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation.