About

VOCALIST | ACTOR | IMPROVISER | COMPOSER | POET

SASCHA LEY is a multidisciplinary artist with a penchant for offbeat projects. 

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

She 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.

Parallel to music Sascha is an active polyglot actor, poet, performer and occasional director and involved in the word and visual arts.

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 avantgarde and improvising artists Shelley Hirsch, Meredith Monk, Sainkho Namtschylak and Frank Köllges, a.o. and toured Europe, India, China, Canada and the United States. 

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.