Biggi Vinkeloe

Biggi Vinkeloe resides between Sweden and California. She performs with the NetArt Lab Ensemble with Sarah Weaver and musicians from three continents. Biggi appeared with BIRDS, a composition of Wendy Reid, California, with musicians from Europe and the US. She facilitated a workshop for flute students at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She had done live-streamed performances in duo with Nema Vinkeloe Uuskyla for Indian audiences, in collaboration with Global Culture and SCEAD Foundation. Biggi has a digital release with Ken Filiano, Barre Phillips, and Peeter Uuskyla from a live recording at the Jazz Festival Vancouver. She did a collaboration with NAB trio and the Kurdish poet Hakim Mirza and got his poems translated from Sorani to Swedish, then she translated them into English. Their first live-streaming had more than 1600 views, mostly in Iraq. Her discography includes Parenthesis, My Soul Is A Bird with NAB Trio, and a digital CD on Golden Lion Records in Sacramento that was a live recording from before the pandemic with Biggi, REV, Don Robinson on drums, and Lisle Ellis on bass. Biggi led a summer camp for adult amateur musicians for ear training and improvisation with the Stans Häftigaste Orkester (SHO), the city’s most amazing orchestra at a barn in the countryside. They had two concerts in person and live-streamed concerts with NAB. For Global Jazz Women Hang with Sibongile Buda in Pretoria, South Africa, which is a Zoom conference every Thursday, Biggi edited a book with 80 biographies of amazing musicwomen, worldwide. Next year, they will publish the second edition of the collection with 80 biographies!

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