Mary Halvorson

Mary Halvorson (born October 16, 1980) is an American avant-garde jazz composer and guitarist from Brookline, Massachusetts. Among her many collaborations, she has: led a trio with John Hébert and Ches Smith, and a quintet with the addition of Jon Irabagon and Jonathan Finlayson; recorded duo albums with violist Jessica Pavone; and recorded several albums with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara under the band name Thumbscrew. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 Halvorson won Best Guitar in DownBeat's International Critics Poll. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant for music. Halvorson is on faculty at the School of Jazz (The New School).

About Ghosts - 2025-06-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Bone Bells - 2025-03-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Cloudward - 2024-01-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Amaryllis - 2022-05-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Belladonna (feat. The Mivos Quartet) - 2022-05-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Searching for the Disappeared Hour - 2021-10-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Artlessly Falling - 2020-10-30T00:00:00.000000Z

A Tangle of Stars - 2019-10-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Seed Triangular - 2018-09-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Code Girl - 2018-03-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Greg Saunier/Mary Halvorson/Ron Miles: New American Songbooks, Volume 1 - 2017-12-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Live in Strasbourg - 2016-11-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Away With You - 2016-10-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Mary Halvorson & Noël Akchoté - 2016-08-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Meltframe - 2015-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Emerge - 2015-03-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Reverse Blue (feat. Chris Speed, Eivind Opsvik & Tomas Fujiwara) - 2014-10-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Illusionary Sea - 2013-09-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Super Eight - 2013-03-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Bending Bridges - 2012-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Departure of Reason - 2011-11-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Electric Fruit - 2011-01-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Saturn Sings - 2010-10-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Crackleknob - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Dragon's Head - 2008-10-28T00:00:00.000000Z