Fay Victor's Herbie Nichols SUNG
Saturday, September 27
TIME: 5:00pm-6:00pm
VENUE: Logan center Performance Hall. 915 east 60th st.
A photo of Fay Victor looking at the camera against a red background wearing a cheetah print top, orange beaded earrings, with her hair wrapped in a snakeskin print scarf (Photo by Deneka Peniston). Followed by a photo of Fay Victor’s Herbie Nichols SUNG playing on stage in front of a crowd, the photo has blue and pink tones (Photo by Matt Merewitz).
Fay Victor
Described as “an avant-garde Nina Simone with the performance punch of Betty Carter” (MOJO Magazine), New York-based sound artist, composer, educator, and bandleader Fay Victor uses performance, improvisation, and composition to examine representations of modern life and blackness.
Victor has performed at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, The Kolner Philharmonie, De Young Museum, Symphony Space, The Earshot Jazz Festival, The Winter Jazz Festival, and the Bimhuiss, and has shared stages with luminaries such as Gary Bartz, Archie Schepp, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Randy Weston, Misha Mengelberg, Roswell Rudd, and Moor Mother. She has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums as a leader.
Victor is also a member of the esteemed new music ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, and co-directs its educational wing, Ensemble Evolution. She has an esteemed reputation as a member of the faculty at the College of Performing Arts at the New School, where she teaches interdisciplinary practices and vocal performance, and at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, where she runs a private vocal salon. She spent the spring of 2025 as a visiting professor at Harvard University in the Department of Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry. She gives talks and clinics on jazz,creative improvisation, and composition at institutions around the world. Moreover, she is the Board Chair for the Jazz Leaders Fellowship, an initiative of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music to fund black women/non-binary jazz leaders of the present and future.
The musicians:
Fay Victor - voice, lyrics, conception
Anthony Coleman – piano
Michael Attias – alto/baritone saxophone
Ratzo Harris - double bass
Tom Rainey - drums