About
Magda Kress is a queer NYC-based upright and electric bassist, and can frequently be found playing basses all over the city in musicals, concerts, and recording sessions. She especially loves collaborating with theatre-makers and performing new works. Past favorites include Pretty Woman (1st National Tour), The Pansy Craze (Audible/Minetta Lane Theatre), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Company), Elf: the Musical (Bway/Marquis Theatre, sub), and Conversion (documentary soundtrack, Chronicle Cinema).
Magda has shared the stage with Adam Pascal, Liz Calloway, Evan Rachel Wood, Laverne Cox, Sasha Velour, Annie Golden, Richard Kind, Telly Leung, and many others. She is a regular call to play with artists and bands such as Miss Tutti & the Fruity Band, The Little Mermen, A Band Called Honalee, Ellen Winter, Gracie McGraw, Doris Dear, and Pearly.
She received her master’s degree in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University. Her compositions have been programmed on several concerts and festivals, including Electronic Music Midwest (Lewis University), Vox Novus' Circuit Bridges Series (Gallery MC) and Fifteen Minutes of Fame Series (Jan Hus Church, with cellist Craig Hultgren), Folk Wandering Family Concert (ART/NY Theatres) and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra Student Composer Reading Session (Bowling Green State University).
Magda has shared the stage with Adam Pascal, Liz Calloway, Evan Rachel Wood, Laverne Cox, Sasha Velour, Annie Golden, Richard Kind, Telly Leung, and many others. She is a regular call to play with artists and bands such as Miss Tutti & the Fruity Band, The Little Mermen, A Band Called Honalee, Ellen Winter, Gracie McGraw, Doris Dear, and Pearly.
She received her master’s degree in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University. Her compositions have been programmed on several concerts and festivals, including Electronic Music Midwest (Lewis University), Vox Novus' Circuit Bridges Series (Gallery MC) and Fifteen Minutes of Fame Series (Jan Hus Church, with cellist Craig Hultgren), Folk Wandering Family Concert (ART/NY Theatres) and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra Student Composer Reading Session (Bowling Green State University).
Upcoming:
Songs for Slutty Girls - Parkside Lounge - February 26-28
Red Foot - Young Ethel's - February 27
A Night of Celebration: Shenandoah MT Class of 2025 - Chelsea Table & Stage - March 1
Red Foot - Young Ethel's - February 27
A Night of Celebration: Shenandoah MT Class of 2025 - Chelsea Table & Stage - March 1