Anat has been voted Clarinetist of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz Journalists Association, as well as 2012’s Multi-Reeds Player of the Year. That’s not to mention her topping of critics and readers polls in DownBeat magazine several years running. Anat has toured the world with her quartet, headlining at the Newport, Umbria, SF Jazz and North Sea jazz festivals as well as at such hallowed clubs as New York’s Village Vanguard.

In September 2012, Anzic Records releases her sixth album as a bandleader, Claroscuro. The collection ranges from buoyant dances to darkly lyrical ballads, showcasing Anat’s fluency in a global set of styles – from New Orleans and New York to Africa and Brazil. Playing clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor and soprano saxophones, Anat was joined in the studio by her top-flight working band – pianist Jason Lindner, double-bassist Joe Martin and drummer Daniel Freedman – as well as special guests: trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, percussionist Gilmar Gomes and star clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera.