ISB 2025 Convention Presenter — Christie Echols

Christie Echols is a performer, composer, and creative artist whose work highlights complexities of contemporary performance through the mediums of upright and electric bass, vocals, electronics, film, poetry, theater, and dance. Their music encompasses elements of free improvisation, singer-songwriter, avant-garde, EDM, jazz, contemporary classical, performance art, and funk to create versatile performances of unconstrained artistry. She has been commissioned by Hofstra University, MIRACOR FILMS, and Bassists with Boobs Ensemble. Prioritizing mutli-disciplinary collaborations, recent projects include The Mercy Velvet Project (2024) with choreographer Alexis Robbins, Melodies of Certain Damage Opus 6 (2022)
with
performance artist Naama Tsabar, and The Modification of Oneself: for bass, vocals, electronics,
and multimedia (2022) with poet Luisa Caycedo-Kimura. As a performer, Echols’ has been featured at Lincoln Center, Make Music Day Hartford, the Buttonwood Tree Center, FREE CENTER, New Haven Underground Jazz, and the Women Composers festival of Hartford. As a bassist they perform frequently with the Goodspeed Opera House, New Britain Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Likewise, she has recorded for NAXOS, Space Camp, Into the Light Ensemble and Cassie's Crutch. Echols maintains an active private studio at Westfield State University, Loomis Chaffee, and the Hartt School Community Division.