Biography

Singer, composer and educator Dominique Eade spent her childhood between Europe and the United States. Although she began studying music at a very young age, she received a solid academic education at Berklee and the New England Conservatory. During the ‘80s, she was an active performer on Boston’s jazz scene together with Mick Goodrick, Donald Brown and Bill Pierce. In addition to leading different popular music bands like Orange Then Blue, Eade sang contemporary academic music with Boston Música Viva, Composers in Red Sneakers, NuClassix. In 1990, Eade moved to New York, where she released her first album, The Ruby and the Pearl (Accurate), with Alan Dawson and Stanley Cowell. As well as teaching at the New England Conservatory, she has performed as a soloist in diverse operas by Anthony Braxton and in a trio with Ben Street and Kenny Wollesen, with regular shows in New York’s East Village. In those years, she released her second album, My Resistance is Low (Accurate), featuring Bruce Barth, George Mraz and Lewis Nash. In 1996, she recorded two critically acclaimed albums: When the Wind was Cool (RCA), featuring Benny Golson, Fred Hersch, James Genus and Matt Wilson, and The Long Way Home (RCA), with Dave Holland and Victor Lewis. In 2001, Columbia Records offered to record her songs, and as a result Open, a duo album recorded with Wilson, was released in 2006.