Janelle Yichen

Janelle is a Taiwan-based multi-instrumentalist; she is also a vocalist, composer and improviser, whose styles combine Chinese, Turkic, Near eastern, jazz, classical and contemporary styles of music. After completing her studies in the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory and the Art Research Institute of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, Janelle developed a unique personal style of improvisation and composition that fuses three major contours: ethnic, classical and jazz music. Janelle has worked with top-rated artists from all these fields on numerous concerts and recordings, including Joe Maneri, Hankus Netsky, Tami Machnai, Hey Rim Jeon – to name a few. As a concert artist, she has also performed as soloist and major ensemble player in the U.S. Canada, Hungary, Japan, Indonesia, China, and Taiwan. Lately, she has developed ethnic fusions, exploring the roots of the Silk Road with the group ShantaaL: North Indian Hindustani classical music meets the Uyghur Muqam and folk music from Turkic Region of China, as well as the group Aashti, which features the characteristics cross Euro-Asia Continent from Balkans, Turkey, Middle East, Iran to Xinjiang.
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