January 12 & 13, 2023
7pm ET at Asia Society: In the Green Room project with Sumi Tonooka

Concept and composition: Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka
Performers: Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), Sumi Tonooka (piano), Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), Linda May Han Oh (bass)
Supported in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as part of its Creative Inflections program, a first-of-its-kind initiative to support leading jazz artists and presenting organizations in innovative collaborations that enable artists to take creative risks and expand the genre’s listenership by attracting younger and more diverse audiences.

Friday, January 27, 2023
8pm ET, Carolina Performing Arts presents Jen Shyu's Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Digital Program also here)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC

February 8, 2023
8:30pm, performing Immanuel Wilkins' Stone Residency
Immanuel Wilkins (alto sax), Susie Ibarra (drums), and Bill Frisell (guitar) 
55 W. 13th St, NY, NY 10011 

February 15 - 18, 2023, 8:30pm ET all nights
Jen Shyu Residency at the Stone (curated by John Zorn)
55 W. 13th St, NY, NY 10011

Feb. 15: Jen Shyu (voice, gayageum) Kenny Barron (piano) Lesley Mok (percussion) Kalia Vandever (trombone) 
Feb. 16: Jen Shyu (voice) Ben Monder (guitar) featuring Reggie Workman (bass)
Feb. 17: Jen Shyu solo (voice, compositions, Taiwanese moon lute, piano, Japanese biwa)
Feb. 18: Jen Shyu (voice) Val Jeanty (SoundChemist) Sumi Tonooka (piano)

February 17, 2023
3:00pm - 4:30pm ET, Asian American Jazz Symposium at Columbia University
Complete Symposium 9am - 6:00pm, Register HERE
If sold out, you can join the webinar accessible HERE (Webinar ID: 952 3344 7391, Passcode: 231599)
Jen Shyu presents "Projecting Tradition Into the Future* in Three Solo Works" on a panel with Hafez Modirzadeh
Hosted by Kevin Fellezs, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, NY, NY

March 5, 2023
2pm, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses at Ampersand Festival 2023
Kimball Theatre, 428 W Duke of Gloucester St
Williamsburg, VA 23185

April 27, 2023
Jen performs Fertile Land, Fertile Body solo work-in-progress for the Music In the Mansion series
6:30pm & 8:30pm (2 sets), The Mansion at Strathmore
Tix $30 (complimentary wine included each set)
10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852

May 4, 6, & 24, 2023
Jen Shyu teaches as Paul Simon Music Fellows Guest Artist at schools in NYC

June 13, 2023
7pm - 9pm, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) Celebration
Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony + Cohort 5 World Premiere Film Screening + Cohort 6 Announcement
NY, NY

June 18, 2023
10pm ET, Vision Festival at Roulette
With Reggie Workman's Celebration Band: Reggie Workman (bass), Odean Pope (tenor sax), Jason Moran (piano), Jen Shyu @jenshyu (vocals), Elijah Thomas (flute), Elizabeth Panzer (harp), Tapan Modak (tablas), and Gerry Hemingway (drums)
Tickets HERE for all events; Tickets HERE for Reggie Workman's Celebration Band
Brooklyn, NY

September 21, 22, 23, 2023
M³ Festival 2023 at Roulette, featuring 21 composer-performers-bandleaders from Cohorts 3 & 4
Tickets available here for Sept. 21, 22, & 23
Sept. 24: Closing reception and launch of New Suns Issue 9 + M³ Anthology 5 @ Center for Fiction
RSVP HERE before Sept. 8
Brooklyn, NY

November 5, 2023
6:30pm - 8pm (one set only) at the Jazz Gallery
"When the Ancestors Speak" Trio with Val Jeanty (SoundChemist), Jen Shyu (vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa), & Sumi Tonooka (piano)
Presented by Center for Remembering and Sharing
NY, NY

November 9, 2023
Giving a performance/lecture at Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2023 | The Creative and Transformative Spirit of Korean Music
Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

November 11, 2023
8pm, ArtBath, solo performance in the Sunken Garden (sold out! Email me to find out about waiting list)
Blue Building, NYC

November 29 - December 1, 2023
Northern Illinois University Residency: Giving Keynote address for Rebel Music Conference, workshops music students and the NIU AAPI community
Dekalb, IL

December 6, 2023
6pm - 7pm ET, Free virtual panel "Electric Sonic Language: Arooj Aftab, La Doña, Jen Shyu, and Meklit in Conversation"
Zoom link HERE

December 7, 2023
3pm, Jen Shyu's "Projecting Tradition Into the Future in Three Solo Works" talk at Jessie Cox's series "the Comparing Domains of Improvisation"
RSVP here to attend in-person as well as Zoom
Columbia University, NYC