I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences. Anat Cohen Read Quote
Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It’s like New Orleans; it’s a meltdown of other cultures. Anat Cohen Read Quote
I’ve always been attracted to multicultural music. It’s where the world is going. Anat Cohen Read Quote
I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn’t until my album ‘Poetica,’ which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me! Anat Cohen Read Quote
My initial training was on the keyboard – mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music. Anat Cohen Read Quote
Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7. Anat Cohen Read Quote
My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring. Anat Cohen Read Quote
Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on… So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music. Anat Cohen Read Quote
I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player. Anat Cohen Read Quote
