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SUMMARY:A World of Piano: Wayne Horvitz
DESCRIPTION:Recipient of the 2019 American Prize in Composition for Orchestra\, composer\, pianist\, and electronic musician Wayne Horvitz performs extensively throughout Europe\, Japan\, and North America. He is the leader of and principal composer for The Snowghost Trio\, Sweeter Than the Day\, The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble\, Brooks/Horvitz/Kim\, Electric Circus and The Royal We. He performs regularly as an improviser on both piano and electronics. Past ensembles include The President\, The Gravitas Quartet The Horvitz-Morris-Previte Trio\, Zony Mash\, The New York Composers Orchestra\, Ponga\, and The Four Plus One Ensemble. Recent releases include “Those Who Remain” (National Sawdust Tracks) and “Cell Walk” featuring duos with bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck (Songlines). In 2016 Horvitz was granted the three yearlong Doris Duke Performing Artists Award. \nAs a composer\, Horvitz has been commissioned by The Kitchen\, The Seattle Symphony\, The Kronos Quartet\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, New World Records\, The Seattle Chamber Players\, NOCCO\, The Seattle Modern Orchestra\, The White Oak Dance Company and Earshot Jazz. He has received commissioning grants from Meet the Composer\, The National Endowment for the Arts\, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs\, NYSCA\, The Mary Flagler Carey Trust and The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund. He was awarded a Rockefeller MAP grant for the creation of Joe Hill: 16 Actions for Chamber Orchestra and Soloist (2004). His composition “For Piano Alone\, In Four Parts” was premiered by pianist Cristina Valdes at the Nordstrom Recital Hall\, Seattle in 2009. Horvitz was awarded a MAP grant in 2010 for “55: Music and Dance in Concrete\,” a site-specific collaboration with choreographer Yukio Suzuki\, video artist Yohei Saito and producer Tucker Martine which premiered in September 2012 at Centrum (WA) and the ASU Museum of Art. His hour-long song cycle “Smokestack Arias\,” based on the events of the Everett Massacre\, was premiered at ACT Theater in February 2012. He is the recipient of the 2008 NEA American Masterpieces Award for the string quartet “These Hills of Glory.” In 2016\, he was the recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In May of 2013 Horvitz’s Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble spent a week in residence at The Stone in NYC. Ben Ratliff of the NY Times wrote\, “Mr. Horvitz kept his attention on the band with microscopic focus\, quick-cutting between contrasts\, putting something free or rippling against a fixity. It held your attention\, and when it was perverse\, it was just perverse enough.” \nIn 2014 Horvitz received funding from the Shifting Foundation to write “Some Places Are Forever Afternoon\,” a suite of compositions for septet based on eleven poems by the iconic Northwest poet Richard Hugo. A CD was released in 2015 and the work premiered that fall in Washington\, Montana\, and Oregon – the places Hugo loved and wrote about. The Seattle Symphony premiered “Those Who Remain” for full orchestra on Oct. 29\, 2015\, conducted by Ludovic Morlot. Horvitz is a 2015 McKnight Visiting Composer Fellow\, for his project “21 Pianos\,” a site(s)-specific interaction with an extremely out of tune piano and twenty-one towns and cities in Minnesota. \nFunded in part by a 2015 MAP grant\, “Those Who Remain Pt. 2: Concerto for Installation and Improviser” premiered in January of 2017 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. The installation is a collaboration with dancer Yohei Saito\, video artist Yukio Suzuki and visual artist Barbara Earl Thomas. The music is an electronic score created from samples of “Those Who Remain Pt. 1. In February 2020\, in collaboration with the Seattle Opera and the Seattle Modern Orchestra\, “188 Sullivan: Charlie Parker’s New York in the ’50s” was premiered by Horvitz with the SMO conducted by Julia Tai\, imagining the meeting of Charlie Parker and composer Edgar Varese in a piece that included notated passages\, improvising soloists\, and interstitial passages of “conduction” directed by the composer. \nDuring the Covid years\, Horvitz focused on archival projects\, completed and published a book of compositions for beginning and intermediate pianists entitled “Little Pieces for the Piano” and created a new ensemble with vocalist Ayesha Brooks and cellist Ha-Yang Kim. Their premiere concerts were streamed live from Town Hall and The Royal Room and their EP was released on the Lions With Wings label. \nAs a sideman and collaborator Wayne Horvitz has performed and recorded with Robin Holcomb\, Billy Bang\, Rinde Eckert\, Carla Bley\, Marty Ehrlich\, Reggie Watts\, Alex Guy\, Bill Frisell\, Fred Frith\, Butch Morris\, Shelley Hirsch\, Skerik\, Naomi Siegel\, Nels Cline\, David Moss\, Bobby Previte\, George Lewis\, Elliott Sharp\, Ikue Mori\, Kazutoki Umezu\, Briggan Krauss\, Eyvind Kang\, Samantha Boshnack\, Christian Marclay\, Beth Fleenor\, Philip Wilson and John Zorn (Naked City\, Cobra\, etc.)\, among others. He has produced recordings for the World Saxophone Quartet\, Human Feel\, Fontella Bass\, Marty Ehrlich\, John Adams\, Bill Frisell\, Robin Holcomb\, and Eddie Palmieri. In film and theater\, he has collaborated with\, among others\, Carey Perloff\, Yukio Suzuki\, Yohei Saito\, Crispin Spaeth\, Bill Irwin\, Gus Van Sant\, and Dayna Hanson. “… there’s nobody else out there I hear even attempting to cover some kind of similar range\, and do it so convincingly” — All About Jazz
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/a-world-of-piano-wayne-horvitz/
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley Street\, Northampton\, MA
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SUMMARY:A World of Piano: Marta Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Madrid\, Spain\, pianist and composer Marta Sánchez is actively working in the contemporary creative music scene in New York City and around the globe. Charting a significant path through her innovative and original music\, she has reached an international audience\, gaining significant global recognition. \nMarta’s main project\, her quintet\, was created soon after she moved to New York\, and since then has released four albums: “Partenika” (2015)\, “Danza Imposible” (2017)\, and “El Rayo de Luz” (2019) with the Spanish label Fresh Sound and SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) with Whirlwind Recordings. All of the albums received high praise from American press. ”Partenika” received great reviews from The New York Times\, Downbeat\, All Music\, All About Jazz\,and many more. Not only that\, but the recording was selected by The New York Times as one of the 10 best albums of 2015\, including all genres\, and it was also included on the lists of the best recordings of the year from the Jazz Journalist Association\, Downbeat and All Music. The quintet’s next work\, “Danza Imposible” was reviewed and highly praised in the famous public radio program“Fresh Air”\, it got 4 stars from DownBeat\, an excellent review from The New York TImes\, on Nate Chinen’s program at WBGO\, and it was also included in some lists of the best of 2017. “El Rayo de Luz” was also included in the The New York Times list of the Best 10 jazz albums of 2019\, it was the editor’s pick of the December issue of Downbeat\, got a four stars review also in Downbeat from Giovanni Russonello\, it was featured on WBGO’s program “The Checkout” and a long etc. SAAM (Spanish American Art Museum) was reviewed at The New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Downbeat\, Jazzwise and a long etc. After “Danza Imposible”\, Marta’s music has been the subject of articles in publications including Jazziz and The New York Times. \nIn addition to her quintet\, Marta recently released a new record with her trio\, featuring Savannah Harris on drums and Chris Tordini on bass\, titled “Perpetual Void” on the Intakt label. The album has been widely praised\, including receiving 4.5 stars from Downbeat. \nMarta has toured the United States\, Europe\, South America\, and Central America\, performing as a leader or as a sideman at prestigious venues and prominent festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands\, Jazzaldia in San Sebastian\, Inntone in Austria\, Eurojazz in Mexico City\, Eurojazz in Athens\, Jazz Festival Vitoria Gasteiz\, Winter Jazz Festival in New York\, and Madrid\, among many others. In the United States\, she has performed at some of the most prestigious clubs including the Carnegie Hall\, Blue Note\, Village Vanguard\, Birdland\, Roulette\, Dizzy’s Jazz\, The Jazz Gallery\, The 55 Bar\, Smalls\, Mezzrow among many others. \nFurthermore\, Marta has been actively collaborating with other artists\, playing and recording in David Murray’s Quartet\, Maria Grand’s duo\, and the Anna Weber and Angela Morris Big Band\, among others.. \nShe received prizes for the best soundtrack for short film in the festivals Alcalá de Henares\, Curtficcion in Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. \nIn 2017 and 2021 she received the prestigious grant for a residency from the MacDowell Colony\, where Marta wrote prepared piano repertoire.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/a-world-of-piano-marta-sanchez/
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley Street\, Northampton\, MA
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SUMMARY:A World of Piano: Arturo O’Farrill
DESCRIPTION:Arturo O’Farrill\, pianist\, composer\, and educator\, was born in Mexico and grew up in New York City. Arturo’s professional career began with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with a wide spectrum of artists including Dizzy Gillespie\, Lester Bowie\, Wynton Marsalis\, and Harry Belafonte. \nIn 2007\, he founded the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the performance\, education\, and preservation of Afro Latin music. Learn more about ALJA here: http://www.afrolatinjazz.org \nIn December 2010 Arturo traveled with the original Chico O’Farrill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra to Cuba\, returning his father’s musicians to his homeland. He continues to travel to Cuba regularly as an informal Cultural Ambassador\, working with Cuban musicians\, dancers\, and students\, bringing local musicians from Cuba to the US and American musicians to Cuba. \nArturo has performed with orchestras and bands including his own Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and Arturo O’Farrill Sextet\, as well as other Orchestras and intimate ensembles in the US\, Europe\, Russia\, Australia\, and South America. \nAn avid supporter of all the Arts\, Arturo has performed with Ballet Hispanico and the Malpaso Dance Company\, for whom he has written three ballets. In addition\, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company has in its repertoire a ballet entitled “Open Door\,” choreographed by Ron Brown to several of Arturo’s compositions and recordings. Ron Brown’s own Evidence Dance Company commissioned Arturo to compose New Conversations\, which premiered in the Summer of 2018 at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket\, MA. \nArturo has received commissions from Meet the Composer\, Jazz at Lincoln Center\, The Philadelphia Music Project\, The Apollo Theater\, Symphony Space\, the Bronx Museum of the Arts\, the Young Peoples Chorus of New York\, Columbia University and the New York State Council on the Arts. \nArturo’s well-reviewed and highly praised “Afro-Latin Jazz Suite” from the album CUBA: The Conversation Continues (Motéma) took the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition and the 2016 Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. His powerful “Three Revolutions” from the album Familia-Tribute to Chico and Bebo was the 2018 Grammy Award (his sixth) winner for Best Instrumental Composition. Arturo’s album “Four Questions” (ZOHO) is the first to embody all original compositions\, including the title track\, which features the brilliant orator Dr. Cornel West. This album won a Grammy in 2021. Most recently\, in February of 2023\, Arturo was awarded his eighth Grammy for the album “Fandango at the Wall in New York.” \nArturo was Artist in Residence for The Greene Space in New York City\, for which he created a four-concert series including a newly commissioned composition. The series title was “Radical Acts and Musical Deviancy.” \nIn 2020 Arturo’s weekly concerts with the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra\, dubbed “Virtual Birdland\,” top the list of 10 Best Quarantine Concerts in the New York Times. \nArturo is Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Assistant Dean for Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion at University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA)\, has been honored as a Steinway Artist for many years\, and is a Blue Note Records Recording Artist.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/a-world-of-piano-arturo-ofarrill/
LOCATION:Northampton Center for the Arts\, 33 Hawley Street\, Northampton\, MA
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