Jazz vocalist Vicki Burns has been performing and teaching steadily since her arrival in New York City in 2009 from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her MA in Music in Improvised Music Studies from San Jose State University in 2000 and performed in many Bay Area venues including The San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA, and many clubs in San Francisco including sold out performances at The Plush Room and long residencies at The Hotel Donatello and Enrico’s, a legendary jazz venue in North Beach. She taught from 2003-2008 at Blue Bear School of Music and also privately.
She released a critically acclaimed album Siren Song in 2003 of which jazz critic Dan Ouelette, a featured columnist in Downbeat magazine said she “succeeds with rapturous, mystical beauty.” The title song, “Siren Song” has recently been recorded by renowned jazz vocalist, Tessa Souter on her album Picture In Black and White in 2018 and has received airplay worldwide.
Currently, Vicki performs regularly at venues such as Mezzrow, 55 Bar and Jazz At Kitano and The Lexington Hotel in New York City and is planning to record a new album featuring original music and rarely sung standards in Fall of 2019.
Vicki has been a teacher at 92 Y since 2013 and loves to teach both children and adults. She focuses on healthy singing technique based in the Bel Canto tradition and adapts this to Broadway, Jazz, and Popular music styles. Some of her students from 92 Y were featured in Spring of 2019 at Jazz at Kitano where they debuted in their own successful show. Vicki Burns plans to release her new album, Bittersweet sometime in the late summer or fall of 2021.