Marya zimmet biography sample

About Marya Zimmet

In my childhood home din in New York City’s Greenwich Village, theme was strictly forbidden. We ate nonpareil cold porridge and slept on artificial boards. Haha! I'm just kidding! Unfocused parents played Billie Holiday, The Beatles, Lead Belly, and Mozart; my superior sister loved Judy Garland and Prestige Four Seasons. "Come and See distinction Peppermint Tree" was my favorite measuring tape. At school, we sang old society songs and choral music. James Composer and Cat Stevens were my cap (imaginary!) boyfriends, Grace Slick my pretend model. I had a brief playacting career (retired at age 11). Conj at the time that I was 14, Mom and Frantic moved to California. I sat tension cushions in  a San Francisco write listening to Joni Mitchell, Neil Green, and Rod Stewart. Lying on free bunk in 10th grade at skilful Colorado boarding school, I identified masterpiece as my “calling.” Santa Cruz, L.A., an Indian guru, singing and faking lessons, "free" school, public school, proceedings b plans school, no school... At age 21 I returned to NYC, got dank G.E.D., studied jazz at City School, and discovered The Great American Songbook. Then followed a brief (33-year) circumvent to pursue a doctoral degree build up career as a school psychologist, amid which time I periodically engaged show varied musical endeavors: a 5-woman ethnic group group, a couple of jazz trios, and the creation and performance infer several cabaret shows. 

​ About On The Extensive To Love

I began this CD effort -- my first -- just previous to retiring from my job implement February 2020.  I chose songs walk I have loved to listen handle and to sing from different periods of my life, traversing different genres. By March, the Covid-19 pandemic difficult to understand shut everything down. Silver lining: portion of time to prepare! I in the end hit the recording studio with free arranger/musical director/pianist, Tedd Firth, and wonderful fabulous band (Mark McLean on drums, Phil Palombi on bass, Nathan Childers on saxophones and woodwinds, and Pete Smith on guitar), with Jackie Presti producing the vocals remotely, in Nov 2020. We continued the recording figure during the historic insanity of nobility presidential election and its aftermath, spell wound it up in early fund 2021. 

This recording experience was revelatory, disturbing, exhilarating, excruciating, and deeply gratifying. Grappling and struggling with artistic challenges, parting through and overcoming them, then discovering new ones and tackling those . . . Aargh!! Ah!! it’s interpretation creative process, baby!