Lisa Yves

Profile and Experience
 
To book a Jazz For Kids workshop at your school contact: lisayves@gmail.com

Profile

Lisa Yves is a singer/musician.  She has 30+ years of performing experience in voice and piano.  Lisa teaches voice and piano, performs with other musicians, produces her own albums and writes her own songs.

Experience


Founder and Leader of All Mom Rock Band--HRT which appeared on The Today Show

and Canadian reality show Rocker Moms 2004-Present

A Tribute to Bette Midler show--Boston and New York 2009-Present

Finalist Boston Popsearch--performed with Keith Lockhart at Symphony Hall June 2004

Performed with Harry Connick Jr. at the Knickerbocker Saloon 1989

Recorded with Dave McKenna for the Bose Company 2002

Produced cd series Jazz For Kids which has been heard internationally 1998-2002

Performed in Tokyo, Japan with Music Playground.com 1999

Licensing deals with Sony, BMG, Universal -Alphabet Scat (original song)

Original song Drinking in the Dark licensed by the feature film Green River (Mayon Films)



LISA’S  WORK WITH KIDS


Milwaukee Montessori School, Milwaukee, WI December 2011

Taught a 2-3 day Jazz for Kids seminar to 200 kids grades 1-8 March 2011

culminating in a school performance


Jazz For Kids collaboration with Tal Shalom Kobi and Miki Matsuki-performance at 

Regent Theatre, Arlington MA  celebrating Jazz Month                                                                        April 2010


Shrewsbury Montessori School, Shrewsbury MA

Taught a 3 day Jazz for Kids seminar culminating in a performance to grades 1-6 May 2009


Palm Beach County Jazz Festival

Taught jazz to over 1200 kids in Palm Beach County public schools Grades 3-8

culminating in a performance at the Jazz Festival in wellington, FL                                                      April 2007



SMARTS Theatre Arts Camp, Attleboro, MA--Elementary music director and voice teacher

to kids ages 5-11 Summer 2005, 2006



Beverly Montessori School, Beverly MA

Taught a 4 day Jazz for Kids seminar culminating in a performance to grades 2-6 2003, 2005



Winthrop Jazz Festival, Winthrop, MA--Worked with inner city kids teaching Jazz vocal techniques

culminating in a performance at the jazz festival                                                                              Winter 2003


Worked with the New England Jazz Alliance teaching jazz vocal techniques and 

repertoire to inner city kids in Boston, MA.       2003


Taught jazz performance to the Best Friends Diamond Girls Jazz Choir in 

Washington, DC.,  resulting in a 2nd place silver award win in competition                     2002


Taught jazz vocal techniques and repertoire to inner city kids in Bronx, NY.                     2002




JEWISH EVENTS


Choir director (pianist and leader with Rabbi David Paskin)--Temple Beth Abraham, Canton MA 2007-Present


Remembering Debbie--a memorial tribute to Debbie Friedman--Boston, MA     January 2011


Bat Hayam Hak’tana(The Little Mermaid-hebrew prodution)--Musical Director and accompanist

Solomon Schechter Day School, Norwood MA March 2011


Mayyim Chayyim fundraiser event with Shira Kline, Newton , MA                                                      April 2011


Rightous Among Nations honoring Raoul Wallenberg --Choir co-director, songwriter, accompanist             Norwood MA November 2010


Yom Hashoah perfromance with SASSDS choir--co-director, accompanist--State House Boston MA  April 2010


Rightous Among Nations honoring Pope John Paul--Choir co-director, songwriter, accompanist

Norwood, MA November 2009

Hillcrest Jewish center--Featured performer with Cantor Moti Fuchs- Queens NY May 2009, June 2010

Peter Pan (hebrew production)--musical director, accompanist

Solomon Schechter Day School, Norwood, MA March 2009


Mary Poppins  (hebrew production)--musical director, accompanist

Solomon Schechter Day School, Norwood, MA March 2007


Fiddler on the Roof (hebrew production)--musical director, accompanist

Solomon Schechter Day School, Norwood, MA March 2005




  

Education


Studied voice with McClosky professor and voice therapist Lin Schuller and performed at the voice foundation in Philadelphia, PA demonstrating “healthy singing techniques”.           2002-2005

New York University, Bachelors Degree in Music (Vocal Jazz Performance) 1985-1989

Yeshiva of Flatbush High School, Brooklyn, NY 1981-1985

Solomon Schechter Day School of Queens 1973-1981

Jazz is her comfort zone

Rock singer returns to roots for holiday gig

Lisa Yves of Sharon was a finalist in the 2004 Boston Pops talent search and sang in Symphony Hall. Now she is a member of the all women rock group HRT.Lisa Yves of Sharon was a finalist in the 2004 Boston Pops talent search and sang in Symphony Hall. Now she is a member of the all women rock group HRT.
+By Robert Knox
Globe Correspondent / December 13, 2007

For Lisa Yves, Sunday afternoon's jazz concert at the Duxbury library is a rare opportunity. "I love doing the standards," she says.

The jazz-trained vocalist, who performs in an all-women rock group called HRT, based in Sharon, will play with veteran jazz musicians Richard Rancatore, pianist, Marshall Wood, basist, and Dan Miele, drummer, in what has become an annual gig in Duxbury.

It's billed as a holiday jazz concert, reflecting a festive time of year, but not a concert of holiday season music. It is a change of pace for Yves. Her band HRT (it stands for Hormone Replacement Therapy) consists of five women in their '40s performing original songs. The band recently appeared on the "Today" show and is playing this month at Paradise Lounge in Boston. The songs reflect "where we are in our lives now," Yves said. "It's reflective of our journey."

While in the midst of doing an album with HRT - the members write the songs together - Yves looks forward to "my gigs with Richard." So does Rancatore. "This is the joy of my life," he said. "I live to do these things." Rancatore remains devoted to the music of great songwriters such as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Johnny Mercer. Wood and Miele are equally at home in the jazz standard idiom, Rancatore said.

A musician with a national reputation, Wood is one of the most sought-after bassists in New England, having recorded with Tommy Flanagan and Dave McKenna and toured with Tony Bennett. Rancatore, who chooses the songs and puts the concert sets together, looks for jazz standards that reflect - lightly - on seasonal elements like weather. This year the theme is travel, he said, but he likes to surprise audiences with his selections. "It's very loose," Yves said. "We don't rehearse. We look at the sheet music. We laugh." Yves, who performed in the New York jazz world after studying jazz vocals at New York University, knows all the standards. Faced with a song she doesn't already know, she'll listen to one of the others play the melody, look at the lead sheet and "give it a shot." Rancatore "has a nice following, a nice audience," she said. "Everyone in the band is a professional."

The group got together last month for a date at the Marshfield Library.

Yves, originally from New York, moved to Massachusetts a dozen years ago. The Sharon mother of two daughters, ages 13 and 11, was a finalist (out of 731 contestants) in the 2004 Boston Pops talent search and sang in Symphony Hall - "a great stage to be on," she said. Growing up she listened to classic jazz vocalists, and songwriter Tom Waits has been a big influence. Rock is the most challenging for her, she said, because the style requires simplicity, with "less embellishment."

But jazz remains her first love. "I found my comfort zone in that style," Yves said.