LySaundra is a Brooklyn-based musician and composer guided by the understanding that sound is memory, memory is water, and water finds its way through everything. With more than twenty years of study in violin and piano, she moves fluidly between classical, gospel, soul, blues, jazz, folk, and country, and composes music the way she believes all art should be made: to transform. Her music asks its listeners to feel something and then to let that feeling bring them closer to the people around them. If the music doesn't do that, she's not interested.

LySaundra has played violin and piano for nearly 25 years, having studied under Cathy Solsberg, Steven Smith, Anita Weinzierl, Natalia Bolshakova, and Paola Savvidou, each with distinct instruction that shaped her ear, discipline, and understanding of what music can hold.

That training lives in her compositions. It's the discipline underneath the feeling, the structure that makes space for something to breathe. Her classical training has always been in conversation with broader African American and African Diasporic musical canon. These traditions carry a different kind of knowing that inform everything from her compositional choices to the emotional weight she brings to a room.