About

VOCALIST | ACTOR | IMPROVISER | COMPOSER | POET

SASCHA LEY is a multidisciplinary polyglot vocalist, actor,  poet, performer and occasional director involved in the word and visual arts. 

As a vocalist and improviser with a penchant for offbeat projects she loves to explore the boundaries at the intersections of jazz, avant-garde, imaginary folklore, classical and new music creating a complementary blend of improvisation and composition.

Sascha performs internationally with her solo and her duo to quartet combos, as well as guest singer in a wide variety of ensembles of jazz and contemporary music. 

Her performance and improvisational work comes close to the art of collages and abstract narratives while synthesizing several disciplines. A major interest lies in the themes of perception and aesthetics, their possible shift and influence on understanding and communication.

Sascha has studied jazz, Hindustani vocals, classic and extended vocal techniques in Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Mumbai and Saarbrücken, attended master classes with avant-garde and improvising artists Shelley Hirsch, Meredith Monk, Sainkho Namtschylak and Frank Köllges, a.o. and toured Europe, India, China, Canada and the United States. 

 
Sascha appears in international film productions ( upcoming: The Winter of the Crow by Kasia Adamik, On sera heureux by Léa Pool, Äppel & Biren by Lukas Grevis, currently: Hors d'Haleine/Breathing Under Water by Eric Lamhène) and on stage in her current solo performance "Cosmos (Not Enough)".

Since the beginning of 2000 she has produced several shows, performances and albums under her label and Food for Thought Office yela music yela muse, based in Luxembourg.