Irish Women in Jazz presents the Yuzuha O'Halloran trio with support from Jenna Harris.

Join us to celebrate International Jazz Day 2024.

Yuzuha O'Halloran

Following her graduation from Newpark Music Centre with a BA in Jazz peformance, Yuzuha has become an active part of the Irish Jazz and Contemporary Music scene and has performed in venues and festivals all over the country with many of Ireland’s top musicians and groups. These inculde Conor Guilfoyle, Max Zaska, Denise Chaila, Inni-K, Izumi Kimura, Tommy Halferty, Glasshouse Ensemble and more.

Since 2020 she has performed with The Conor Guilfoyle Octet as part of an Arts Council funded tour of Ireland playing the original arrangements of Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, the first of it's kind in Ireland. She has also recently toured internationally, with notable performances in well-known venues including London’s Vortex Jazz Club, The Barbican as part of London Jazz Festival and Reduta Jazz Club in Prague as well as being part of the first Irish act to peform in Avignon Jazz Festival.

Jenna Harris

Jenna Harris is a vocalist, composer, and lecturer from Dublin who specialises in jazz and improvised music. Jenna performs regularly as a solo artist and with her band Berri. While she improvises with her voice and improvises with the effects she uses to process her voice, a style of improvisation has developed that intrinsically links the two, both feeding back and forth from each other. Her solo performances often incorporate reactive visuals that she builds as a platform to exhibit the voice as the instrument it is.

Jenna is the founding member of her band Berri, a three piece with leading creative musicians Matthew Jacobson and Derek Whyte where Jenna frequently loops and processes her voice, “a group that makes clear the difference between a jazz singer and a singer of jazz songs" (The Irish Times).

Jenna regularly collaborates with guitarist and electronic musician Daniel Jacobson (Zoid) and is a member of guitarist Tommy Halferty's quartet Voices. She is the founding member of vocal group Claritas.

Jenna is a lecturer on the BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at Dublin City University where she lectures in Voice, Instrumental Skills & Labs, Ensemble Repertoire & Performance.