Winter Jazz Series 2025

In the coming weeks, Hamptons JazzFest will present Winter Jazz Series 2025. The series of concerts will feature a diverse lineup of international and world-class artists. From the global stage to local gems, the Winter Jazz Series offers a rich tapestry of musical experiences.

The Winter Jazz Series begins at The Church in Sag Harbor on Friday, February 14, with a 6 p.m. performance by Mary Edwards. Experience love in harmony on Valentine’s Day as by exploring the beauty of the natural world with Mary Edwards. With her warm presence, the internationally renowned composer and environmental sound artist will take the audience on a sonic journey inspired by the Arctic and beyond, connecting deeply with the rhythms of the planet. The pianist will be joined by her quartet to create an intimate evening of love for the natural world.

Crafting immersive compositional soundscapes with cinematic audio, Edwards creates “an ode rather than an elegy” to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality, and terrestrial/space connectivity. According to Edwards, the power of listening ensures that all sounds have the “potential to be habitable and can be transformative once you get inside them.”

Mary Edwards is a composer and environmental sound artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia, and the natural world that recur throughout her work. She is interested in the invisible architecture and the emotive, historic, cinematic, and spatial properties of sound that are simultaneously intimate and immense.

Her composition “Everywhere We Are Is the Farthest Place,” has been performed and installed in several iterations at Spitsbergen Artist Gallery (Svalbard), Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn), Epsilon Spires (Vermont), the Beyond Listening International Symposium on Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) in Budapest and in a continuing monthly residency at New York Public Library (NYPL) Jefferson Market Branch.

Tickets are $30 ($25 members) at hamptonsjazzfest.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor. Winter Jazz Series 2025 continues with CocoMama at Bay Street Theater on February 22 at 8 p.m. and a Slavic Soul Party on March 22 at Bay Street Theater at 8 p.m.