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About Angel Bat Dawid
Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, educator, and DJ known for her significant contributions to contemporary jazz. She released her debut album, The Oracle, in 2019 with Chicago's International Anthem Recording Co., which received critical acclaim for its exploration of Black life and culture.
In 2024, she composed The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden, a solo clarinet piece premiered at the Villa Medici in Rome. Her other works include Requiem for Jazz, performed at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, and Peace: A Suite for Skylanding, created for the Art Institute of Chicago as part of Yoko Ono’s Sky Landing installation.
Dawid has performed at notable venues, including Carnegie Hall during the Afro-Futurism Festival. She leads the ensemble Tha Brothahood, whose album LIVE (2020) was recognized as one of NPR Music’s Best Albums of 2020, and she is a member of the all-women group Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty.
In addition to her performance work, Dawid teaches Great Black Music at Imagine Englewood If and Simpson Academy for Young Women through the Old Town School of Folk Music's Moves Program. In television, she has composed music for HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness.
Dawid is also a clarinetist in Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble and hosts a monthly show on NTS Radio. She has been featured in Pitchfork’s “Pitchfork 25 Next” and served as the Winter JazzFest’s Artist-in-Residence in 2022. She was the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University’s Black Arts Consortium. Her performances include appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and a myriad of international festivals and venues. Dawid also serves as a 2025 United States Artist Fellow in Music.