Emma Rawicz (live @Transition Festival 2024)

She describes herself on Instagram as “Emma Rawicz (ra-vich), noise architect”. The 21-year-old Emma Rawicz is the latest discovery on London's vibrant jazz scene, which has been causing a worldwide stir for years. And despite her young age, she has already achieved an enormous amount: winner of the Parliamentary Jazz Awards, finalist at the Jazz FM Awards and the BBC Young Jazz Musician Competition.

Line-up
Emma Rawicz - sax, Ivo Neame - piano, Kevin Glasgow bass, Asaf Sirkis -drums

Setlist Emma Rawicz
00:00 A Wide, Wide Sea
08:18 The Oak Tree
15:16 Rebecca

The ascent of saxophonist Emma Rawicz has been meteoric. Born in rural north Devon in 2002, as a child she studied classical violin and didn’t take up saxophone until her mid-teens, but by 2022, aged 20, she was on the Royal Academy of Music jazz course and had released her debut album, Incantation. Rawicz has chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia, meaning she sees specific colours when she hears certain sounds. This inspired her approach to writing for Chroma, her latest album, on which all but one of the tracks are named after obscure colours such as rangwali and viridian.

Editors: Melchior Huurdeman, Aad van Nieuwkerk, Sakti Khedoe
Camera & lighting: Ramon de Boer, Marijn Zurburg, Leon Jackson
Sound: Vera Kraaijkamp
Producer: Jorinde Hiddema/Pippa Harris
Director/Editing Reinier Bruijne


This video was recorded at Transition Festival TivoliVredenburg 2024 for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO
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