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.

Current  Projects

COSMOS (Not Enough)

Sascha Ley SOLO INVENTIONS

AXIS MUNDI Ley Payfert Öztürk Boffo 
Instant Composition

KNEF Revisited Ruby & Ley  


Watch & listen 

Youtube Channel "Improvisations and Inventions"

Youtube all Playlists

Showreel Film

yela music yela muse

Sascha’s Independent Food For Thought Office & Production Label since 1999

 

History

 

ALBUMS
2024  Axis Mundi Sascha Ley & Laurent Payfert w/Murat Öztürk & Jean Pascal Boffo
2022  In Between Sascha Ley / Solo (JHM 292)
2019  It's Alright To Be Everywhere Sascha Ley & Laurent Payfert (JHM)

2015  The Wee Hours Sascha Ley & Laurent Payfert

2013  Everything Within Kalima (Neuklang)  

2010  Kalima Kalima 

2007  Travelling Light Sascha Ley 

1999  Heute Abend Lola Blau – live Sascha Ley

 

Shows & Performances

2024- ongoing
                   Cosmos (Not Enough) Solo performance
2021-22    Onirisée (Les Oniristes)    

2020-         Free Spirit Songs 

2015          Meet SAM (w/ Anne-Mareike Hess) 

2012          Rituals I
2011-13    Sascha & Nataša

2010-12    Femme Totale

2005-07    Das mit den Männern und den Frau'n

2001-03    Lost In The Stars - Kurt Weill Songs


Awards

Haidy Jacobi Award, Germany 


Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite 
du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg 


Audience Choice Award of Festival 
Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon 


Studio Hamburg European Shooting Star
Berlinale Festival Berlin 2005


Best interpretation “Songs For Life”