Lake George Arts Project

Jody is a passionate proponent of creative live music that blurs genres and connects the sensitivity of chamber music and the spontaneous, in-the-moment magic of jazz improvisation. Over the past 18 years of working as a professional cellist, composer, vocalist, recording artist, educator and concert presenter, she has been privileged to create music and events with a vast network of inspiring musicians, visual artists, venues, audiences, and students.

Jody has performed on 5 continents at venues such as Carnegie Hall (Stern and Weill halls), Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and Appel Room, Radio City Music Hall, Disney Hall (L.A.), Davies Symphony Hall (S.F.), Chicago Symphony Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Barbican (London), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Hollywood Bowl, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and at the world’s biggest jazz festivals including Montreux, North Sea, San Francisco, Capetown South Africa, Portland, and Montreal jazz festivals, and the Village Vanguard and Tokyo’s Blue Note.

Called an “Adventurous cello songstress” (Time Out NY), Jody has been praised for her “exceptional technical command” (Steve Smith, Night After Night). She has commissioned over new 30 works for cello, voice & electronics, including pieces from some of today’s new music superstars (Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, Paula Matthusen, Ted Hearne, Judd Greenstein), culminating in her solo album for voice, cello, and electronics of minutiae and memory (New Amsterdam Records), featuring 8 nuanced and immersive compositions, and named “one of the year’s 10 best albums” (Textura magazine).

Jody has worked with established new music luminaries such as the Bang on a Can founders David Lang, Michael Gordon & Julia Wolfe, and with composition-sages Terry Riley and George Crumb. In the pop world, she has performed with Neil Diamond, Enya, Sufjan Stevens, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Foxy Brown, the Roots, Meatloaf, Guster, Duncan Sheik, Dar Williams and Sara Bareilles. In the jazz world, she was a member of Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society band from 2010-2015, and has performed and recorded with Fred Hersch, Terri Lyne Carrington, Ron Carter, Andy Milne, Gino Sitson, Camila Meza, Snarky Puppy, and her GRAMMY-nominated husband, Alan Ferber.

She currently plays in a string quartet project recording & premiering new compositions by a roster of modern jazz composers; in a trio with her husband, trombonist & composer Alan Ferber, and his twin drummer Mark Ferber; and is a busy recording cellist for an array of artists. Jody has appeared on ABC’s The View, the CBS Early Show, NBC’s The Today Show, the Rockefeller Christmas Spectacular, Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and BET’s Mo’Nique Show. You can hear her on the Super Grover segments on Sesame Street, and on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.