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March 2019
Yael Weiss: 32 Bright Clouds
32 Bright Clouds: Beethoven Conversations Around the World is a global music-commissioning and performing project, born from a need to respond to current social and political environments in the U.S. and worldwide with a personally meaningful and purposeful musical endeavor. Yael Weiss, piano The project combines the 32 Beethoven Piano sonatas with 32 newly commissioned short piano compositions from 32 composers in 32 different countries spanning the globe. 32 Bright Clouds engages composers hailing from countries where conflict and instability create challenges and ...
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Find out more »Mad about Chamber Music
Select University of Michigan School of Music students perform chamber music in a fun-filled, informal setting.
Find out more »At a Loss of Innocence: love and war through song
Brian Giebler, tenor Steven McGhee, piano Ludlow and Teme (1920, revised 1925), music by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937); poetry by A. E. Housman (1859-1936) Fish in the unruffled lakes and other songs (1937-1941), music by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976); poetry by W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Other selections TBA Tenor Brian Giebler and pianist Steven McGhee have been friends and musical collaborators since meetings as students at the University of Michigan in 2010. After their 2012 performance of Ivor Gurney’s piano quintet arrangement of Ludlow and Teme in Ann ...
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Find out more »April 2019
Mad about Chamber Music
Select University of Michigan School of Music students perform chamber music in a fun-filled, informal setting.
Find out more »Andy Milne & Unison
For over 20 years, Juno nominated pianist/composer Andy Milne has demonstrated boundless versatility, collaborating with dancers, visual artists, poets and musicians spanning jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music. The newest full-time professor to join the University of Michigan jazz faculty, he splits his time between Ann Arbor and New York City. Driven by creative insights from his varied projects, Milne formed the trio Unison in 2017, building upon the synchronistic relationship he has developed with bassist John Hébert since 2010. They are rounded out by drummer Clarence Penn, who represents complementary threads within the ...
Find out more »Miles Okazaki’s Trickster
Miles Okazaki is an American musician working with many of the leaders of today’s creative music scene. His approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz, but any kind.” Trickster was released on Pi Recordings in 2017 to great acclaim, called “a brilliant individual statement” and “a mature work for the ages” by ...
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Find out more »May 2019
Simon Nabatov, piano solo
Russian-born, Germany-based avant jazz pianist, Simon Nabatov, makes a visit to the Midwest and Kerrytown Concert House for one night only. With an extensive recording discography and a concert résumé featuring a who's who of USA and European musicians, you don't want to miss this rare opportunity to see and hear in person one of the foremost experimental jazz pianists on the scene today. Simon Nabatov, piano Buy Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8D51ylJ7es
Find out more »Ifetayo Ali-Landing
1st place Laureate of the 2017 Sphinx Competition, Ifetayo Ali-Landing will perform for the first-time at the Kerrytown Concert House. The 15-year-old cellist has performed with dozens of symphony orchestras around the country, as well as soloed for the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra and the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. Ifetayo Ali-Landing, cello Annie Jeng, piano Buy Tickets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Etqu8_xjAQ
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