Amber Navran is an LA living woodwind player, soprano vocalist, piano player, producer, composer, songwriter, musical educator, and member of the neo-soul/soul jazz trio, Moonchild.
In 2017, she released her solo EP, titled “Please Speak Up.” And in 2018, she released her single “No More,” featuring Michael Mayo.

Navran was raised in Seattle, and has been singing and playing saxophone, clarinet, and flute for nearly two decades. While in Seattle she was a featured soloist with the Seattle Repertoire Jazz Orchestra and played frequently with her jazz trio, Moonchild, around town.

Amber moved to LA to attend the University of Southern California, and received her BM as a student in their Jazz Studies program in 2012. At this college, she studied with jazz professionals Bob Mintzer, Bob Sheppard, Alan Pasqua, Bruce Foreman, Aaron Serfaty, and Russel Ferrante.

As an educator, Amber has been teaching music lessons for around fifteen years to students of all ages. She’s taught privately, and in the schools – coaching marching bands, directing jazz bands, leading sectionals, and teaching theory classes. She’s also taught through Skype calls. She loves helping students develop a foundation on their instrument while learning to improvise and find their own voice.

As a composer, she’s been commissioned to arrange pieces for jazz orchestra for LA County High School of the Arts, and USC’s concert jazz orchestra. She’s written horn parts for different pop/soul ensembles, arranged for marching band, transcribed pieces for jazz bands and soloists, and explored many facets of songwriting. Her songs have received radio play around the US and been placed in independent films.

As a bandleader she’s written, produced, and released two albums, opened for Stevie Wonder and Georgia Anne Muldrow, won songwriting awards, and toured the west coast. Drawing from diverse influences like D'angelo, Bon Iver, and Billy Strayhorn, Amber strives to come up with innovative harmonies and lyrics, and her jazz background offers a fresh take on different genres, often including rich horn arrangements on top of the musical styling’s of her talented band.