Anat Cohen

Anat Cohen was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv

Cohen was born in Tel Aviv on October 31, 1975, into a musical family. At 12 she began playing clarinet in the Dixieland band of the Jaffa Conservatory. At 16 she took up tenor saxophone in the conservatory's big band.

In 1991 she entered the Thelma Yellin school, where she majored in jazz. She served in the military from 1993 to 1995, in the Air Force band. From 1996 to 1999 she studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

She then moved to New York and toured for a decade with the Diva Jazz Orchestra. She also played with Brazilian groups and recorded with her brothers Avishai and Yuval Cohen. In 2005 she founded Anzic Records and released her debut album, Place & Time, on the label.

Her album Luminosa came out in 2015, and Triple Helix, with the Anat Cohen Tentet, came out in 2019. She received the Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2013. She has been nominated for Grammy Awards and has appeared at festivals such as Newport and Montreal.