“An audacious artist [who] flouts genre limitations, singing songs for the love of it and delivering an inventive, thrilling, appealing musical vision” Andrea Wolper works “in a milieu that begins with jazz and reaches out to embrace an expressive area that is uniquely her own.”

Andrea’s eclectic tastes and multidisciplinary talents have led the vocalist, composer, improviser, poet to forge her own path. She has led several ensembles, and also recorded and/or performing for other artists across jazz genres, including Jay Clayton, Will Connell, Bob Gluck, Heavenly Big Band, Matt Lavelle, Frank London, William Parker, Patricia Nicholson Parker, and others. Performance credits include clubs and concert halls in her New York home base, across the U.S., and beyond. She has been awarded a number of composing residencies, and Cadence Magazine called
her songwriting "easily superior.” Recordings have landed on a number of Best-of-Year lists, and she is one of the great jazz singers in The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide” (Back Beat Books). A past President of International Women in Jazz and Advisor to the Jazz Vocal Coalition,

Andrea is also a writer whose journalism and poetry have appeared in numerous publications; among her works are two books, including Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives(with Julie S. Peters; Routledge). Andrea teaches vocal technique and coaches singers in her private studio, and teaches clinics and master classes at colleges and conservatories nationally and internationally.