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  • Zosha Warpeha

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    Zosha Warpeha

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    Zosha Warpeha is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Performing on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, her music explores transformations of time and tonality. Warpeha’s solo debut silver dawn (Relative Pitch Records) has been lauded as a “breathtaking dialogue between Warpeha and her instrument” (I Care if You Listen), her compositional process “subverting tradition not as a political act, but as a point of departure” (Peter Margasak). She is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and her work has also been supported by the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

    Degrees Held

    MMus, Nordic Folk Music & Composition, Norges musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music) (2021)

    BFA, Jazz & Contemporary Music (Violin Concentration), The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music (2018)

    BA, Interdisciplinary Science, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (2018)

     

    Current Courses

    JCM Fundamentals: Improv 4
    JPER 2227, Spring 2025

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