Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 40 years on 5 continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi – an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. His solo work utilizes an expanded palette of sonic language, creating a kind of personal idiom all its own. In an ensemble setting, he leads a new quartet Crossings 4, with Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara, as well as his longstanding trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla, and collaborates around the world with fellow improvisors like Evan Parker and Kazuhisa Uchihashi.

Notable recordings include Lockdown, with Courvoisier and Julian Sartorius on Clean Feed, his Quintet for Clarinet and Stirngs with the Mivos Quartet, The World of Odd Harmonics, Ryu Nashi (new music for shakuhachi), and Inner Diaspora, all on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, as well as Live at Roulette with Evan Parker, The Fell Clutch, and Are You Be on Rothenberg’s Animul label