Events › Cassie Kollman and Matt Savage: A Vocal and Piano Concert

A musical performance featuring vocalist Cassie Kollman and pianist Matt Savage. These talented musicians will perform Jazz, R&B, and Pop on vocals and piano.

Cassie Kollman is a contemporary vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader who possesses an informed command of her craft and performs a wide range of musical genres, mostly those rooted in Black American traditions; including jazz, r&b, blues, soul, pop, rock, New music, and classical. Cassie released her debut album, Lady in Shoes, in 2021; an eclectic mix of groove-based, richly-textured, and imaginative original compositions and collaborations.
Cassie’s songwriting is introspective, personal, and emotionally nuanced. An agile vocalist and deep listener, Cassie creates compositions and arrangements that are vocally ambitious, harmonically intricate, and lyrically exploratory. The result is a soulful experience of jazz-pop music. Cassie performs regularly as a soloist, and manages several ensembles in the Boston area. As a cross-genre vocalist, Cassie’s projects span a diverse range of instrumentation and styles, sharing the common languages of improvisation and blues. As an artist, teacher, and community member, Cassie is passionate about arts accessibility, music education, and live community events.

Matt Savage, age 32, has had a remarkable 20+ year professional career as a jazz musician, bandleader, and composer with ensembles of different size. He’s played with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Chick Corea, the Ellington All Stars, Chaka Khan, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, Jason Moran, Arturo O’Farrill, John Pizzarelli, Joshua Redman, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Faddis, Jerry Bergonzi, and Donny McCaslin among others. He’s also opened for rock legends Neil Young and Stephen Stills, and has performed with Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin, and Al Stewart. Along the way, he’s recorded fifteen projects as a leader. He is a Bösendorfer piano artist. As a composer, Matt has garnered respect and recognition. He composed and recorded the score for a full-length documentary film, Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story. The movie, which premiered in 2014, chronicles the life of the late jazz alto saxophonist Frank Morgan. Additionally, Savage wrote almost all the songs on his albums, several of which have been used in short documentaries, on web sites, in school music curricula and in government educational materials. Matt currently leads the Matt Savage Quartet and the Matt Savage Groove Experiment. His latest album is a quartet record called The Whole Package! This collection of eight originals and three covers was released on June 16, 2023.