About
Magda Kress is a queer NYC-based upright and electric bassist, and can frequently be found playing one or two basses all over the city in musicals, concerts, cabarets, and recording sessions. She especially loves collaborating with theatre-makers and performing new works. Past favorites include Pretty Woman (1st national tour), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre), Dead Outlaw (Audible Theater), The Tattooed Lady (New Dramatists), and Conversion (soundtrack, Chronicle Cinema). Magda has shared the stage with Adam Pascal, Liz Calloway, Bonnie Milligan, Annie Golden, Richard Kind, Lauren Patten, Nancy Opel, Telly Leung, Ellen Winter, and many others. She is a frequent hire for concerts at venues such as 54 Below, Green Room 42, Joe's Pub, and The Cutting Room.
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 Folk Family Concert (ART/NY Theatres) and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra Student Composer Reading Session (Bowling Green State University).
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 Folk Family Concert (ART/NY Theatres) and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra Student Composer Reading Session (Bowling Green State University).
Upcoming:
A Band Called Honalee - John W. Engeman Theater at Northport - October 15
Femmes Fatales - Green Room 42 - October 16
Miss Tutti & the Fruity Band - Jewish Museum - October 20
Barrett Wilbert Weed: Dear Diary - Sony Hall - October 23
Medusa - NAMT Festival of New Musicals/New World Stages - October 24-25
The Little Mermen - Sugar Loaf Halloween Festival - October 26
Charlie Romano & Will Wegner: You Heard It Here First - 54 Below - October 28
Femmes Fatales - Green Room 42 - October 16
Miss Tutti & the Fruity Band - Jewish Museum - October 20
Barrett Wilbert Weed: Dear Diary - Sony Hall - October 23
Medusa - NAMT Festival of New Musicals/New World Stages - October 24-25
The Little Mermen - Sugar Loaf Halloween Festival - October 26
Charlie Romano & Will Wegner: You Heard It Here First - 54 Below - October 28