Sasha Paris-Carter

Sasha Paris-Carter is a songwriter, vocalist, keyboard player, and producer proudly born and raised in New York City. They can be found dreaming and performing in the borderlands of pop, punk, contemporary classical, and folk. Mostly punk. They have performed at Rockwood Music Hall, Caffeine Underground, the Delancey, Oberlin Folk Fest, Catalyst Institute (Berlin), and the Fish Factory (Kernow). Their second EP Royal Pigeon Claw is a bookish exploration of delusion and longing which you can listen to wherever you stream your music. Sasha was the Summer 2024 Artist in Residence at Fish Factory Arts Centre in Penryn, Cornwall, UK where they wrote and recorded an upcoming power pop album. In 2025, Sasha achieved a sold out run at the Tallinn Fringe Festival in Estonia at Heldeke! theater bar. Sasha is a Tribeca New Music Emerging Composer.

Spoiler alert!! I'm always asking students "what do you want the live experience to be like for the audience?" The practice room is NOT a vacuum at all, but a lab where we get to develop your identity as a performer and bring it to the next level. I want you to be excited about the repertoire we choose, because there's no better feeling than stepping up to perform feeling like you really *own* the work you've done. And whether we're working on piano, voice, or both, we'll work on composition, arranging, and theory skills so that you can better bring the vision for your performances to life. We'll explore the cultural, emotional, political, and stylistic context behind pieces of music (and musical techniques, as well!). I've discovered it's easier to mix and match and jumble approaches to music when you have a good foundational vocabulary. Students come to me because I encourage self expression and radical creativity at every step of the process, from discovering the building blocks of scales, to singing their favorite song with total control, to composing something of their own.