PHOEBE LEGERE is a dynamic performer on piano, accordion, Native American flute, and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range. She has a highly creative approach to mixing jazz, classical, rock and Native American music.

Legere was still a teenager when she became the resident composer for the Wooster Group which included Spaulding Grey and Willem Defoe. She then went on to study with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Legere graduated from Vassar College, studied composition at the Juilliard School, studied piano at the New England Conservatory, attended NYU Graduate School of Music Composition. She was signed to Epic Records, had her Carnegie Hall debut and opened for David Bowie on his National Tour in 1991. She led highly influential downtown rock bands, from Monad, to Ultra Monad, To Blond Fox, to the 4 Nurses of the Apocalypse.

During the past decade, Legere has dedicated her creative energy to
adventurous, genre bending serious music composition. In 2001 she received a
NYSCA grant to write"The Queen of New England", an experimental multimedia
opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust. She presented a
concert reading at Roulette. Her "Children of the Dawn" CD features 10,000 year old traditional medicine chants. Children of the Dawn is a collaboration with Little Hawk, a Micmac elder. Her musical,"Hello Mrs. President", about the first African American woman president of the
United States, was presented at Theater of the New City in 2004.

Legere was Artist in Residence at the School of Visual Arts Computer Art
MFA department in 2003 and at the University of Victoria Graduate School
of Engineering and Music in 2004. Legere collaborated with the Morgan
Powell and the Tone Road Ramblers, a collective composing and music
ensemble. "The Waterclown", about the formative movements of fluids, was
performed with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize in Music in 2000. Legere has also collaborated with Eric Mandat on
"Dark Energy" (2004), an astrophysics oratorio. The texts for these long
form musical works are poems written by Legere. Legere also
collaborated with master trombonist Jim Staley. Their CD Blind Pursuits
and Blue Curtain are available on Einstein Records.
"The Common Root of All Organisms" is Legere's epic poem about the parallels between Darwinian creation theories and Penobscot Abenaki Creation Myths. That CD is out now on Einstein Records.

Legere developed an assistive device for disabled children called the
Rap Shoes. She then incorporated her invention into her live art
performances. Her Sneakers of Samothrace 4.0, a wearable computer for music
and art improvisation, were presented at a lecture/performance at
IRCAM's Resonances Aux Festival in Paris in 2004 and at STEIM electronic
music foundation in Amsterdam, Holland in 2006. ADIDAS SALOMON financed a
second pair of Legere's Rap Shoes. The sneakers can be seen and heard on YOUTUBE and in an upcoming Roulette TV show.

In 2007 her visual music work, Chromatic Wave Cantata was featured in the SVA Digital Salon. In 2007 Legere had a solo show called "A Few Words From My Intestine" about Veganism, Raw Food, and the ecology of the human digestive tract. In 2008 Roulette Intermedium will release a Live DVD concert by Legere called "The Imaginary Opera."

Legere has released seven CDs of original music, and has appeared on
National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBSs City Arts, and Charlie
Rose. Legere is head writer and host for Roulette TV, a NYC show about
experimental art and music. She records for Einstein Records, a label known
for experimental and adventurous music.

Legere occasionally takes jobs in movies and television shows to support her highly original artistic projects. Most recently she was seen on Nickelodeon in the comic children's show, The Naked Brothers Band."

Legere has a new CD single on Mercury Records called "Ultra Romantic Parallel Universe" which is a collaboration with Leo Abrahams. The album is called Unrest Cure.