Wed
9/29/2010
7:00pm
Angelica Sanchez & Rob Mazurek
Edgefest
- $15 General Admission
- $10 Students (limited availability)
- Angelica Sanchez, piano
- Rob Mazurek, trumpet
Event Details
This evening of Edgefest 2010 is supported by Bank of Ann Arbor.
We are very sorry to announce that clarinetist Ned Rothenberg will be unable to perform at Edgefest. A few days ago he was hit by a car while biking to the store. He will be fine, but needs time to recover. We are aiming to present his Clarinet Quintet at Edgefest 2011 (our 15th anniversary).
In Ned's place is the celebrated young pianist Angelica Sanchez with Chicago trumpeter Rob Mazurek. Sanchez’s debut solo record due out in Nov 2010 on the Clean Feed label, features a beguiling mix of her own meditative, introspective compositions and free improvisations. Sanchez’s piano playing is marked by its fluidity. She plays with tremendous ease and emotional involvement. As Carla Bley writes in a brief appreciation, “Every piece is like a story told to you privately. There are surprises, interesting structures and references, elegant, inventive language and astonishingly original content. Even the completely improvised pieces seem to have a plot.”
This performance is supported in part by a 2010 project grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.
Angelica Sanchez
Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. She began playing piano at age 13. From 1990-1994 she studied piano and composition at Arizona State University. Sanchez moved to New York in 1995. In June 2000 Angelica was invited to teach improvisation and composition at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada). Sanchez leads her own quartet featuring Tony Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Since moving to New York Sanchez has played with: Susie Ibarra, Joe Lovano, Tim Berne, Mark Dresser, Drew Gress, Ed Schuller, Judy Silvano, Chris Speed, Dave Ballou, Jim Black, Reggie Nicholson, George Schuller, Jeff Williams, Daniel Carter, Mike Sarin, Tony Moreno, Scott McLemore, Ben Monder and many others. www.AngelicaSanchez.com.
