“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 "Women's 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.