Noted for free improvisation and collaborative composition in many genres including classical, new age, contemporary Jewish, folk, jazz, and soul, Jenni’s first love is classical violin. She maintains six other instruments: voice, viola, erhu, cello, octave mandolin, and piano.
She is the Music Director at HAMAKOM. Her current project is composing circle songs from Jewish liturgy with her mentor Roger Treece, from which her masters’ thesis in Jewish Music will culminate, and a new collection music for synagogues who want to prioritize congregational singing will be born.
“Yaladati,” Jenni’s third album, was released in 2021. Jenni composed/improvised, recorded, and produced 100% of the album. Her previous album “Freedom” (2017) is a spoken word poetry and improvised music project with four poets. The question they sought to answer through the project was: Can music add to poetry without distracting from the words? The album won an Independent Music Award.
Click on “Ymir” below to hear the single from the album “Freedom,” read and written by the amazing poet Jacob Sam-La Rose, with Jenni free improvising on violin. Underneath, click to hear Jenni’s two violin arrangement of Naomi Shemer’s beautiful Jerusalem of Gold, played by Jenni and Anastasios Mavroudis.
