page_title: Janel Leppin
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caption_attribution_description: English: Janel Leppin in 2016 the year she released her first solo records Mellow Diamond and Songs for Voice and Mellotron. Photography by Shervin Lainez, Brooklyn, New York.
context_page_description: Janel Leppin is an American cellist and multi-instrumentalist. Her work has been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at many international festivals worldwide including the High Zero Festival, the Swedish Women in Jazz Festival and the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. She has acted as curator for works shown at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the ISSUE Project Room.
  Leppin has released three solo recordings, Mellow Diamond, Songs for Voice and Mellotron, and American God, on her record label Wedderburn Records. She collaborates as part of Janel and Anthony with her husband, American guitar player Anthony Pirog. Recordings of her work as a composer and side musician appear on Touch, Tzadik, Sub Pop, Editions Mego, Ideologic Organ and Cuneiform Records. Her work uses experimental, avant-garde, modal jazz, free jazz, classical, ambient and rock influences.
context_section_description: Janel Leppin (born 1981) is an American cellist and multi-instrumentalist. Her work has been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and at many international festivals worldwide including the High Zero Festival, the Swedish Women in Jazz Festival and the Washington Women in Jazz Festival. She has acted as curator for works shown at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the ISSUE Project Room.
  Leppin has released three solo recordings, Mellow Diamond (2016), Songs for Voice and Mellotron (2016), and American God (2017), on her record label Wedderburn Records.  She collaborates as part of Janel and Anthony with her husband, American guitar player Anthony Pirog. Recordings of her work as a composer and side musician appear on Touch, Tzadik, Sub Pop, Editions Mego, Ideologic Organ and Cuneiform Records. Her work uses experimental, avant-garde, modal jazz, free jazz, classical, ambient and rock influences.
caption: Janel Leppin, photographed by Shervin Lainez in 2016 in Brooklyn, NY.
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