Artist Info: Elana Sasson

Elana Sasson is a vocalist, composer, and bandleader creating music at the intersection of Kurdish and Persian traditions, contemporary jazz, and Mediterranean folkloric influences. She explores themes of identity and duality: weaving emotive modal melodies, intricate harmonic textures, and diverse instrumentation to dialogue between tradition and modernity.

Shaped by years of training with master musicians from Iran and Kurdistan and studies at the Berklee College of Music [read more...]