Carolne Davis solo and Naom Moon Siegel

Caroline Davis is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and activist, whose work is driven by a desire for connection and a belief in music’s capacity to expand listeners’ ears, minds, and hearts. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Composition, she is the recipient of the DownBeat Critics Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award, as well as fellowships from NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her residencies include MacDowell, The Jazz Gallery, Civitella, and the Rockefeller Estate, and she has served as a mentor for New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy program.

Trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator Naomi Moon Siegel is committed to creating a positive, transformative music culture beyond conventional genre norms. Her musical vocabulary draws on the richness of a variety of global musical traditions including Black American Music and the sonorities of the natural world. Siegel explores the trombone as a vehicle for sonic expression colored by breath, spit, space, and physicality. Now based in Seattle, Naomi returns to Missoula for this intimate solo appearance in support of Caroline Davis.