Song Yi Album Release Concert

"This Girl sings Music, and makes it sound upside down! .. while it's right side up!" - George Garzone

Hailing from South Korea, Song Yi Jeon is a singer and composer who deftly combines modern jazz harmony and odd time signatures with singable melodies that instantly catch the ear of the listener. Born in August, 28th, 1984 in Republic of Korea, Song Yi Jeon had from age 7 an early training, such as Piano, Korean traditional singing, Korean traditional drums, and drawing.

She studied classical composition at the University of Music and Fine Art in Graz, Austria and Jazz voice at the Music University in Basel, Switzerland developing her clean, pure voice with unique instrumental improvising skill. Her background with classic composition let her to have the perfect understanding of harmony structure, and makes her improvisations incomparable to any instrument players. Since September 2011 to May 2014 Song Yi Jeon had studied at Berklee college of Music where she awarded Billboard Endowed Scholarship by Performance Devision 2013 and she was selected as first recipient of Quincy Jones CJ Scholarship. Heavily influenced by instrumental Jazz Music, the refined compositions of Song Yi Jeon have clear musical direction and taste.

Jeon has performed with Simon Shaheen, Billey Drewes, Jamey Haddad, Peter Slavov, Guillermo Klein, Bill McHenry, Jeff Ballard, Vadim Neselovskyi, George Garzone, Tiger Okoshi and studied with Lisa Thorson, Guillermo Klein, Jorge Rossy, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Tiger Okoshi, George Garzone, and many enormous musicians, and played at many clubs and festivals at the Whynot Jazz room, Shapeshifter Lab, Blue Note, the Falcoln, the Bitter End, Institute of Contemporary Art(ICA)in Boston, Regattabar Courtyard in Boston, Basel Clubfestival, Off Beat Jazzfestival Basel 2011 CH, Langnau Jazz festival 2011 CH, Next Generation Jazz Festival Monterey 2012 CA etc.