REBECCA HASS
“You can hear [Rebecca’s] mastery of the piano + her adventurous spirit, combining her sense of syncopation + great harmonic sensibility.
A true pleasure to listen to and discover!”
— Music Talks
PRESS RELEASE
Rebecca Hass announces her new album of original piano music, Bright Little Worlds, to be released May 31, 2024. This collection of 22 short pieces in various styles (Brazilian, jazz, waltz, impressionistic, and others) is arranged in a hero’s journey-style narrative trajectory and reflects a dedication to following creative curiosity and joy.
She also performs solo shows of her own compositions and arrangements of classic Brazilian sambas, choros, and baiãos, which you can hear on her debut album, Florescer (Bloom), described as “a refreshing take on instrumental Brazilian inspired music”.
With a deep passion for Brazilian rhythms, Rebecca has been part of the Brazilian music scene in the Bay Area for the last 5 years, having been a guest with the Berkeley Choro Ensemble, and soloist with the Diablo Symphony and Echo Chamber Orchestra on Brazilian and Latin pieces written by living composers.
Rebecca works as a collaborative pianist and educator in the Bay Area, and has been a founding member of Modern Spark Trio, a piano trio with diverse repertoire in Minneapolis, as well as the Brazilian percussion group Batucada do Norte. She also supports musicians through creative coaching, and writes about these topics here.
Samples:
Bright Little Worlds (May 2024)
More sneak peeks in the playlist below:
Florescer (2018 Brazilian album)
PHOTOS
Link to download photos here.
QUOTES
“The music of ‘Florescer’ is both exciting and beautiful, and is as thoughtful as it is clever and original. Hass has certainly created an attractive, infectious Brazilian piano album; one that will be a pleasant listening experience for all, one that will remind us why we love music, and one that will make us fall in love all over again.”
— Austin Franklin, The Sybaritic Singer
“What a delightful 43 minutes of musical sunshine it is…with vibrant rhythms, energetic piano and an infectious zest for life! …If you can sit still while listening to the livelier tracks, you might want to check your pulse!”
— Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com (included on 2018 Favorites list)
“A refreshing take on instrumental Brazilian inspired music…you can hear [Rebecca’s] mastery of the piano and her adventurous spirit, combining her sense of syncopation and great harmonic sensibility. A true pleasure to listen to and discover!”
— Patrick Talbot, Music Talks
“This album shows that [Rebecca Hass] has unusual ideas about Brazilian music, and she isn't content to just play it the same way as everyone else. This is a snapshot of an artist at the beginning of a long and exciting journey.”
— Marc Phillips, The Vinyl Anachronist
“Undulates along the Juan Tizol planes followed by Caravan, complex rhythms, explorative and engrossing. Moves the entire C1 to L5 vertebrae.”
— Fiona Ord-Shrimpton, All About Jazz (on Maracatu do Manatim, featured as a Download of the Day)