Shiri Zorn

Shiri Zorn is an innovative jazz vocalist whose fresh and intercultural sound reinvents standard jazz repertoire as we know it. She layers American Songbook tunes with Middle Eastern influences and unexpected time signatures, and reharmonizes Latin and Samba classics to evoke feelings of transcendence, temporarily rendering the listener lost to time and space. Vocalist Shiri Zorn’s pure tone and insightful phrasing nurtured at Israel’s leading school for the arts, Thelma Yelin, and subsequently at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England, where she studied vocal performance. From 2007–2011, Zorn lived and performed in Seattle, Washington, sharing the stage with some of the nation’s most renowned musicians, including Greta Matassa, Darin Clendenin and Chris Symer. Upon relocating to Upstate New York, Zorn sang and recorded with the influential musicians such as drummer, Peter O’Brien, and bassist, Ira Coleman, and began her decade-long collaboration with guitarist and composer George Muscatello. This partnership culminated in a 2022 lockdown album, Into Another Land, a debut that was vocally produced by Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton, informed by the spontaneity of past Saratoga Springs performances with Muscatello, and underpinned by Brazilian percussionist Mauricio Zottarelli’s artistry. Zorn currently performs in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she is recording her second album, “Looking for the Light,” coming in fall 2024.