10:30 PM Set 11:30 PM Session

KATIE WEBSTER - Saxophone
Anna Fortuna - Vibraphone
David Macchione - Bass
Ilya Blazh - Drums

Katie Webster is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser based out of Brooklyn, NYC, and is originally from Seattle, WA. Her work captures a bold and expressive approach to improvisation and composition. She has performed at renowned international venues including Bird's Eye Jazz Club (CH), Porgy and Bess (AU), The Loft Köln (DE), A-Trane Berlin (DE), Bern International Jazz Festival (CH), and Monterey Jazz Festival (CA). Katie has performed with musicians such as Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, Tim Berne, Val Jeanty, and Pablo Held.

As both bandleader and collaborator, recent work includes projects such as Loomtone (sextet, co-led with Miranda Agnew), New Web (quartet, co-led with Agnew), Amaranth (quartet, co-led with Anna Fortuna), and the Katie Webster Group. In February-March 2025, she and Agnew were awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in music composition, exploring an intentionally collaborative compositional process writing for improvising musicians featuring voice, cello, alto saxophone, trumpet, bass, and drums.

Katie is the recipient of the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Phoebe Jacobs Prize. She is an awardee of the 2023/24 Focusyear Fellowship in Basel, Switzerland, where the ensemble performed regularly with internationally recognized musicians such as Wolfgang Muthspiel, Sara Serpa, Guillermo Klein, and Lionel Loueke. In 2022, she received a commission from MassArt Art Museum and the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice in collaboration with Joana Vasconcelos’ The Valkyrie.

She is also a recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship presented by Berklee in conjunction with the Monterey Jazz Festival. A 2022 graduate of Berklee College of Music, Katie went on to pursue her Master’s degree at the Global Jazz Institute, studying with Danilo Pérez, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, George Garzone, and Francisco Mela.

This event is All Ages

Seating is first-come, first-served; the last 10 spots in the room are standing room. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE SWITCHING SETS OR DAYS.

KATIE WEBSTER - Anna Fortuna - David Macchione - Ilya Blazh - Set and Session

KATIE WEBSTER - Anna Fortuna - David Macchione - Ilya Blazh - Set and Session