Nava Dunkelman

Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn whose work centers on free improvisation and experimental music. Born in Tokyo to an American father and Indonesian mother and raised in a multicultural environment, she studied percussion at Humboldt State University and Mills College, where her teachers included Zeena Parkins and Fred Frith. She performs across the avant-garde and creative music scenes, collaborating with artists such as Ikue Mori, John Zorn, and Zeena Parkins. Her projects include the electro-percussion duo IMA and the percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman.