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The Piano: Bach to BeBop presents the world's finest pianists in the jazz, classical & avant garde

05/20/2023

Pianist Christopher O'Riley
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
TICKETS: PianoJazz.com

--Music of Radiohead (arr. Christopher O’Riley)
--Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
Preludes and Fugues, Numbers I through XII

Christopher O’Riley has created an entirely new model for what the performing musician can be. As a fifirst-tier concert pianist, he worked innovatively and tirelessly to supercharge careers for hundreds of young artists. He further expanded the concert repertoire to include the most forward indie-rock and art music pieces, connecting both the traditional concert world and the world of the young performers whose lives he changed.

A Note from Artistic Director Burnett Thompson
The links between the distantly related Radiohead and J.S. Bach are characteristic of Christopher O’Riley’s genre-fluid musical interests and programming. He made an indelible stamp on the musical universe while hosting NPR’s “From the Top”, heard by a weekly audience of 250,000 for 20 years. “From the Top at Carnegie Hall” ran on PBS and took two Emmy Awards. At any performance, he can be expected to perform music ranging from Mozart to Cocteau

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Pianist URI CAINE
Monday, May 1, 2023 at Decatur House Museum
Uri Caine is one of the leading artists of any genre, inhabiting the jazz, classical and modern music worlds with equal stature and success. During the past several years Caine has worked with Don Byron, Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Terry Gibbs, and Buddy DeFranco, Sam Rivers, Barry Altschul, the Woody Herman band and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Foundation and the USA Artist Fellowships. He has performed at festivals including the North Sea Jazz festival, the Monterey Jazz festival, the Montreal Jazz festival, and the Newport Jazz festival as well as classical festivals like the Salzburg Festival, the Munich Opera, Holland Festival, IRCAM and Great Performers at Lincoln Center.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Pianist HYUNA PARK
Monday, March 6, 2023 at Decatur House Museum
“Hyuna Park is a beautiful new voice on the piano. She plays with a feeling and maturity that is rare.” — Vincent Herring

The award winning jazz pianist Hyuna Park’s musical universe is deeply connected to the vibrant New York jazz tradition while embracing her Korean and classical roots. She is a winner of the International Women in Jazz (IWJ) and Jimmy Heath Awards. She has graced the stage with Grammy award-winners such as Linda Oh, Luis Bonilla, Michael Mossman and Vincent Herring, at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium, the United Nations, and Embassies and Cultural Centers throughout NYC. Hyuna's trio with bassist Myles Sloniker and drummer Peter Traunmueller has absorbed a variety of cross-cultural styles into their core jazz repertoire. Hyuna is a regular at many of the more prestigious jazz venues in New York City such as Smalls, Zinc bar, Iridium, Club Bonafide, The Metropolitan Room, and The Django.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Pianist SULLIVAN FORTNER
Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 at Decatur House Museum
The GRAMMY Award-winning artist out of New Orleans received international praise as both key player and producer for his collaborative work on The Window alongside multi-GRAMMY winner, vocalist-composer Cecile McLorin Salvant. As a solo leader, he has released Moments Preserved (Decca, 2018) and Aria (Impulse!, 2015) to critical acclaim, and he’s only getting started. Now based in New York, Fortner has earned recognition in multiple DownBeat Critics Poll categories, winning first place in Rising Star Piano and Rising Star Jazz Artist. Collaborations include Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Diane Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nicholas Payton, and the late Roy Hargrove.

05/20/2023

Italian Pianist Jonathan Ferrucci
Keyboard Trust
Oct 16, 2022 at Decatur House Museum
The brilliant Italian pianist Jonathan Ferrucci performs J.S. Bach's monumental Goldberg Variations at Decatur House Museum. The London-based pianist recently graduated from the Guildhall School following early training at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. Recent recitals have included Wigmore Hall as first prize winner of the prestigious Jacques Samuel Competition. He is the co-founder of Made in Music, presenting international artists in concerts throughout Italy. Jonathan made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Guildhall Artists in New York project and was a prize winner of the Leipzig International Bach Competition and Portland Piano International Competition.

Mr. Ferrucci’s performances have included concertos of Mozart and Chopin, and recital performances in Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Germany, England, Japan, Australia and the U.S. He has been coached and influenced by Angela Hewitt, Aldo Ciccolini, Donald Weilerstein, Robert Levin, Christian Zacharias and Dimitri Bashkirov. Mr. Ferrucci recently released a CD with music of J.S. Bach, Franck, Albéniz, and Ravel.

He is a daily practitioner of Ashatanga Yoga, and incorporates the principles in his musical preparation.

Jonathan Ferrucci is sponsored by London’s Keyboard Trust, which helps the most gifted young pianists perform on international stages, with débuts in London, New York, Mexico, Berlin, Rome, and other music capitals. Over the past 30 years, the Trust has presented 250 young international pianists, historic keyboard players and organists in over 900 concerts worldwide. With such notable musicians as Evgeny Kissin, Alfred Brendel, and the late Claudio Abbado among its trustees, this formula has proved its worth.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Japanese Pianist MAMIKO WATANABE
Monday, Sept 26, 2022 at Dacor Bacon House
"Mamiko displays talents that make a listener smile with the pleasure of it all" The New York City Jazz Record

Mamiko Watanabe has receiving prizes from Downbeat Magazine and the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. European and Asian tours followed, as well appearances with jazz greats including Joe Lovano, Kevin Mahogany and Bobby McFerrin. Mamiko has performed at most major venues in NYC and has been featured at jazz festivals worldwide, including the U.S., Israel and Asia.

Supported by the Embassy of Japan

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Bassist ALEX BLAKE
with Pianist Burnett Thompson
Monday, May 2, 2022 at Decatur House Museum
Bassist Alex Blake, one of the most creative and singular artists in the international music scene, began his career at age 16 with the Sun Ra Arkestra, followed by Dizzy Gillespie and a host of other headliners. The last 20 years were spent traveling worldwide with NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston. Burnett Thompson and Alex Blake have collaborated on two recent projects in NYC at Mezzrow Jazz Club: Autumn in Yunnan and Reformation: Age of Mayhem

"incredible virtuosity combined with inventive musicality in a fashion that was stunningly entertaining.” The Los Angeles Times

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz DC
An Evening with Pianist WILLERM DELISFORT
Monday, March 7, 2022 at Dacor Bacon House
Pianist, and Composer Willerm Delisfort is a messenger of life using music as his tool. His career extends the continuum of musical styles that ranges from Jazz, Gospel, R&B and many more. Because of this, Willerm's versatility has created a high demand for him with prominent jazz, rap, soul, and fusion artists including 2009 Best World Guitarist Fareed Haque, Grammy Award winning artist T-Pain, Louis Bellson , Lew Soloff, Calvin Newborne, Corey Wilkes, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, David Sanchez, Jennifer Holiday, George Freeman, Red Holloway, Javon Jackson, Melton Mustafa Sr, Peter Erskine, Freddie Jackson, and more.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist ARCOIRIS SANDOVAL
Monday, November 1, 2021
"... an innovative ability to incorporate contemporary melodic, rhythmic and harmonic devices in both her playing and writing" New Music USA

Pianist/Composer Arcoiris Sandoval is a Fulbright award recipient currently residing in New York City. With a graduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music, she has won 2013 and 2015 ASCAP young jazz composer awards in addition to being a semifinalist at in the Montreux Solo Jazz Piano competition in 2012. She participated in the Mary Lou Williams Festival, Betty Carter Jazz Ahead and the Metropole Orkest Arrangers Workshop directed by Vince Mendoza featuring Richard Bona. One of her arrangements was performed by the Metropole Orkest at the 2016 BBC Proms tribute to Quincy Jones. She has also performed at major festivals throughout the world including Umbria Jazz Festival, Winter Jazz Fest in NYC, the Telluride Jazz Festival

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist YAYOI IKAWA
Monday, Oct. 4, 2021
" her main focus...is to reach the listener's soul on a spiritual level" All About Jazz

Born in Tokyo and matured musically in New York, YAYOI IKAWA is immersed in the broad spectrum of Jazz, Hip Hop, Gospel, R&B, Soul, Classical and World music. House pianist in Harlem's Jazz at Shabazz, Yayoi is a veteran of countless collaborations with the most inventive artists of today, including Tyshawn Sorey, Reggie Workman, Michal Urbaniak, Lenny Pickett, Frank Lacy, Lonnie Plaxico, Salim Washington, and Daniel Bernard Roumain. Her film score work was presented at Lincoln Center and she has appeared at jazz festivals in Martinique, Japan, Italy, Haiti, France, Slovenia, Costa Rica and the U.S. Yayoi launched “The Bridge Project” to create musical dialogue between New York and Tokyo musicians, touring Central America through a sponsorship of U.S. Embassy. She received commissions from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Modern Music Society of Tokyo, and sculpture David Baumflek. She is music director at First Baptist Church in Piscataway NJ, and on faculty at City College of New York.

This concert is supported by the Embassy of Japan.

05/20/2023

Burnett at the Piano
Monday, Sept 10, 2021
Burnett Thompson has allowed music to draw him into countless corners of the planet, from the mountains of Yunnan, China, the mews of London, cellars of Vienna, medinas of north Africa, and Manhattan's Lower West Side. He has collaborated with Alex Blake, Arturo Sandoval, Lorin Maazel, the Manchester String Quartet, cellist Han-Na Chang, and directed a host of remarkable concert series, including Castleton in Performance, Hill Center Concert Series, Jazz on Jackson Place, the Foggy Bottom Chamber Ensemble, and Piano Jazz at the Arts Club. Recent projects have included Autumn in Yunnan, ethnic music of southwest China, and Reformation, a fresh take on 15th century secular and sacred music of middle Europe. Burnett played a large role in exposing Chinese jazz and traditional performers to the American audience.

05/20/2023

Ukraine Pianist Dinara Klinton
Keyboard Trust Livestream from London

"An astonishing achievement...a wonderful instinct...her response to the Byronic sweep of Liszt's imagination enthrals at every point... " BBC Music Magazine

After sharing the top prize at the 2006 Busoni Piano Competition at the age of 18, Dinara Klinton took up a busy international concert schedule, appearing at many festivals including the “Progetto Martha Argerich” in Lugano, the Cheltenham Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Proms and “La Roque d’Antheron”. She has performed at many of the world's major concert venues, including the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Berliner Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the New York 92Y, Cleveland Severance Hall, the Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Saxophonist ROXY COSS
with Pianist Burnett Thompson
Monday, May 3, 2021
Roxy Coss ranks among the most innovative saxophonists on the world stage. Winner of a 2016 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, the Downbeat Critics’ Poll listed her as a "Rising Star" the past five years in a row, and a Downbeat Magazine review called her "An exceptional young talent”. Originally from Seattle, Roxy has been a fixture on the New York scene for over ten years. She has headlined extensively worldwide, the Newport Jazz Festival, Melbourne Big Band Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Summerfest, Ballard Jazz Festival, The Jazz Standard, and Jazz Showcase.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist SPIKE WILNER
Monday, March 1, 2021
Spike Wilner performed with or led bands in New York City at countlessjazz clubs including The Village Gate, The Angry Squire, Visiones, Augies, The West End Gate and The Village Corner. Spike also toured with The Artie Shaw Big Band, The Glen Miller Orchestra and Maynard Furgeson. Spike's own recordings include "A Blues of Many Colors", "Planet Jazz", and "Three To Go". Spike launched the record label SmallsLIVE focusing on great performances at Smalls Jazz Club. Spike’s own project, "Spike Wilner, Solo Piano: Live At Smalls", received a glowing review in The New York Times. Spike is a managing partner at Smalls and Mezzrow jazz clubs in Manhattan.

05/20/2023

Chinese-American Pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu
Keyboard Trust
January 10, 2021 Livestream from London
George is establishing a reputation as a captivating performer with distinctive intelligence and sensitivity. He has performed as a piano soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and collaborated with conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Stefan Asbury, Kensho Watanabe, Vinay Parameswaran, and Jonathan Berman. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. He has been heard on BBC Radio 3, National Public Radio, and On Stage At Curtis Institute.

George is an active composer and performer of contemporary music, having collaborated with composers Krzysztof Penderecki, Harrison Birtwistle, George Lewis, Unsuk Chin, Tansy Davies, Phil Cashian, Matthew Aucoin, and Freya Waley-Cohen.

A Harvard University grad, George studied at the Curtis Institute of Music under Jonathan Biss and Meng-Chieh Liu, and then at the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Elton and Joanna MacGregor. He has also worked intensively with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, specifically on the music of Messiaen and Debussy. George is currently the Hodgson Piano Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.

Mr. Fu has been selected by London’s Keyboard Trust for their artist development program. The Keyboard Trust celebrates their 30th anniversary in 2021, and supports the most gifted young pianists on stages in London, New York, Mexico, Berlin, Rome, Washington, DC, and other music capitals. The Trust has presented more than 250 international pianists, historic-keyboard players, and organists in nearly 1000 concerts. With such notable musicians as Evgeny Kissin, Alfred Brendel, and the late Claudio Abbado among its trustees, this formula has proved its worth.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist TORU DODO
Monday, Nov. 2, 2020
TORU DODO is an established New York artist, with credits including the renowned Kenny Garrett, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes, Ruth Brown, and Terumasa Hino, to name a few. Aside from his own trio, he works with notable vocalists Somi, Alicia Olatuja, Nicole Henry and Laurin Talese. The Tokyo native is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, and his career has taken him to venues and festivals worldwide.

Dodo has released to five solo albums, Dodo and 116 West 238th St with Reuben Rogers on bass and John Lamkin on drums. Dodo features Joseph Lepore on bass and Rodney Green on drums. His fourth album, Do You Like Cappuccino? and latest album JAfro are on from Dodo's own do & do label.

This concert is supported by the Embassy of Japan.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist DAVIS WHITFIELD
Monday, October 5, 2020
Davis Whitfield is a recent graduate of the Berklee College of Music, where he received the Presidential Scholarship. Prior to attending Berklee, Davis directed and arranged for weekly Jazz Standard performances by the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra. He appears at every major jazz venue in New York City, including Dizzy's Coca Cola, Smalls, the Jazz Standard, in addition to appearances throughout Europe. As the son of two musicians, Davis has been immersed in the musical arts his entire life.
"Davis Whitfield is a young player that plays with the experience of a seasoned veteran. He has his own style but, if you listen closely you can hear the influence of McCoy Tyner, Thelonious Monk and Count Basie." Bob Kaufman, Berklee

05/20/2023

Italian Pianist Jonathan Ferrucci
Keyboard Trust
The concert will be streamed live from the 12th century St. Mary's Perivale Church in London.
Mr. Ferrucci is based in London, where he recently graduated from the Guildhall School. His early training was at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. His teachers were Giovanni Carmassi and Joan Havill. Recent recitals have included Wigmore Hall as first prize winner of the prestigious Jacques Samuel Competition. He is the co-founder of Made in Music, a traveling music festival that thus far has presented international artists in concerts throughout Italy. Mr. Ferrucci’s performances have included concertos of Mozart and Chopin, and recital performances in Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Germany, England, Japan, Australia and Carnegie Hall. He has been coached and influenced by Angela Hewitt, Aldo Ciccolini, Donald Weilerstein, Robert Levin, Christian Zacharias and Dimitri Bashkirov.

Mr. Ferrucci recently released a CD with music of J.S. Bach, Franck, Albéniz, and Ravel. He is a daily practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga, and incorporates the principles in his musical preparation.
The Program
J.S. Bach: French Suite in G Major
Bela Bartok: Sonata
Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C
Mr. Ferrucci is based in London, where he recently graduated from the Guildhall School. His early training was at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. His teachers were Giovanni Carmassi and Joan Havill. Recent recitals have included Wigmore Hall as first prize winner of the prestigious Jacques Samuel Competition. He is the co-founder of Made in Music, a traveling music festival that thus far has presented international artists in concerts throughout Italy. Mr. Ferrucci’s performances have included concertos of Mozart and Chopin, and recital performances in Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Germany, England, Japan, Australia and Carnegie Hall. He has been coached and influenced by Angela Hewitt, Aldo Ciccolini, Donald Weilerstein, Robert Levin, Christian Zacharias and Dimitri Bashkirov.

Mr. Ferrucci recently released a CD with music of J.S. Bach, Franck, Albéniz, and Ravel. He is a daily practitioner of Ashtanga Yoga, and incorporates the principles in his musical preparation.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An evening with Pianist Dan Tepfer
Livestream May 11, 2020
Born in Paris to American parents, “tremendously gifted” (LA Times) pianist-composer Dan Tepfer has translated his bi-cultural identity into an exploration of music that ignores stylistic bounds. His 2011 Goldberg Variations / Variations, which pairs his performance of Bach’s work with improvised variations of his own, has received broad praise as a “riveting, inspired, fresh musical exploration” (New York Times).

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist BRUCE BARTH
Monday, March 2, 2020
Pianist Bruce Barth, a major force in the jazz world, has performed at most major venues in the U.S and Japan, and pretigious festivals throughout Europe. Throughout his professional life, Bruce has had extended collaborations with Terell Stafford & Tony Bennett. He has performed with James Moody, Phil Woods, Freddie Hubbard Branford Marsalis, and the Mingus Big Band.

"Pianist Barth digs deep to his true soul in the keyboard language, self-assured and full of ideas." Downbeat

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist MARTHA KATO
Monday, Nov. 4, 2019
A native of Japan, pianist Martha Kato won the coveted Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award and 2nd prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Martha studied with Kenny Barron at the Juilliard School, and is enjoying a blossoming career in New York, Europe, and Japan. She is a frequent performer at every major New York jazz venue.

This concert is supported by the Embassy of Japan.

05/20/2023

Pianist Iyad Sughayer
The Keyboard Trust
Monday, Oct. 21, 2019
In Recital at the Arts Club of Washington
Palestianian-Jordanian pianist Iyad Sughayer performs music of Mozart, Liszt, and Khatchaturian in his first American tour. The young pianist recently released the first in a series of albums of the complete piano music of Aram Khatchaturian, and will also appear at Steinway Hall for his New York debut.
MOZART A minor Sonata k.310
LISZT Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
1. Funérailles
3. (Andante lagrimoso)
4. Cantique d’amour
KHACHATURIAN
Poem
Piano Sonata (1961)
Iyad Sughayer has performed across the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East. He has been a soloist with the European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata as well as the Royal Northern College of Music, Chetham’s, and the Prague Youth, the Cairo, and the Amman Symphony Orchestras. Recent performances have taken place in Manchester, at the Bridgewater Hall, the Cathedral, and The Stoller Hall where Iyad made his debut on BBC Radio 3; at the Laeiszhalle and Steinway-Haus in Hamburg, as well as the Cairo Opera House and, in London, at Wigmore Hall and Kings Place. Future engagements include recitals in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East, and his concerto debut with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. In February 2020, BIS will release Iyad’s debut disc, featuring the solo works of Aram Khachaturian.

05/20/2023

PIano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Saxophonist JON IRABAGON
with Pianist Burnett Thompson
Monday, October 7, 2019
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the 2008 Thelonius Monk Competition champion, is known for breaking boundaries whether in the jazz, avant-garde, or doom metal realms. He has topped virtually every worldwide instrumental poll over the last ten years. Jon is joined by pianist Burnett Thompson to launch the Reformation, Age of Mayhem project, secular and profane music of the 16th century in a new light.

“Saxophonist Jon Irabagon is a subverter of the jazz form, a revolutionary.” New York Jazz Record

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist ANDY MILNE
Monday, May 6, 2019
Andy Milne is a distinct voice at the heart of New York’s creative jazz scene for over 20 years, collaborating with dancers, visual artists, poets and musicians spanning jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music. Collaborations include Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, and Cassandra Wilson. A student of Oscar Peterson, Milne also composed music for a series of films directed by William Shatner. He is a full-time professor at The University of Michigan and holds teaching positions at New York University, and the New School.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist RON STABINSKY
Monday, March 4, 2019
Ron Stabinsky recently released his debut album, receiving four stars in DownBeat and number one debut of the year in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. A fearless creative force, he throughout the world with free-improvising saxophonist Jack Wright, lead trumpet legend Dave Stahl, bass trombone virtuoso David Taylor, and NEA Jazz Master David Liebman. Recent concerts include Newport Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Fest, Moers Festival (Germany), Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Austria), Jazz Festival Willisau (Switzerland), and Belgrade Jazz Festival. Ron is a key member of ensembles Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Relâche, the Charles Evans Quartet, the Meat Puppets, and the Peter Evans Ensemble.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist ALAN BROADBENT
Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 TICKETS
New Zealand native Alan Broadbent began his career with Woody Herman’s band as pianist and arranger. Next up were lengthy collaborations with Nelson Riddle, and Johnny Mandel. Subsequent collaborations included Shirley Horn, Herbie hancock, Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett, Paul McCartney, and Diana Krall. His Grammy awards resulted from his work with Natalie Cole and Charlie Haden. “…one of the greatest living jazz pianists.” The Los Angeles Times

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist MIKI YAMANAKA
Monday, Oct.1, 2018
New York-based pianist Miki Yamanaka maintains weekly residencies at Smalls and Mezzrow Jazz Clubs in NYC, and has appeared at most jazz venues in New York City. Miki arrived in New York from Kobe, Japan to study with Jason Lindner, Jeb Patton, and Fred Hersch, Sam Yahel and Larry Goldings. In 2015 she was selected for “Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead”, an intensive composition residency at the Kennedy Center. She recently earned her Master of Music degree from Queens College, receiving the Sir Roland Hanna Award. Miki has appeared in concert with many notable musicians including Steve Nelson, Seamus Blake, Jerry Dodgion, Victor Lewis, Rich Perry, Antonio Hart and Peter Bernstein.

This concert is presented with the support of the Embassy of Japan.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist MICHAEL WEISS
Monday, May 7, 2018
Michael Weiss has appeared with a host of major artists and ensembles during his career. Memorable collaborations include Johnny Griffin, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton, Jon Hendricks, and Lou Donaldson, among countless others. Weiss is a two-time Doris Duke/Chamber Music America New Works grant recipient and was the grand prize winner of the 2000 BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute's Composition Competition.

""Weiss' shrewd writing and arranging skills are as clearly in view as his sleek piano work" The New Yorker

"Warmth, integrity and above all, originality" – JazzTimes

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist VICTOR GOULD
Monday, March 5, 2018
Victor Gould, completed his undergraduate degree at Berklee College of Music where he was a recipient of the Herbie Hancock Presidential Scholarship. He graduated from Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz with a Masters Degree. Gould's honors include the 2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award, and in 2006 he was a semifinalist in The Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. As a member of the Donald Harrison Quartet, Gould recorded three CD's and a DVD, and toured the United States and Europe. He has performed with Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Branford Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Wallace Roney, et al.

"He's got the musical world on a string, in his mind, and at his fingertips." All About Jazz

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist Daniel Freiberg
Monday, Nov. 6, 2017
New York based, multiple Grammy award winning composer, arranger, pianist and music producer Daniel Freiberg has spent most of his life at the intersection of the distinct worlds of classical, jazz, rock and Latin American music. Daniel Freiberg’s jazz arrangements have been performed by Stephane Grapelli, Dizzy Gillespie All Stars Big Band featuring Paquito D'Rivera, The Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Regina Carter, Claudio Roditi Quintet, WDR Big Band, et al.

"subtle harmonies and supple rhythms in Mr. Freiberg’s compositions" The New York Times

See Daniel Freiberg Live in Performance

This concert is presented with the support of the Embassy of Argentina.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist ERI YAMAMOTO
Monday, Oct.2, 2017
Eri Yamamoto is one of jazz's most original and compelling pianists and composers. Her music portrays a wide range of her experiences from joyful to introspective, reflecting the vibrancy of New York City, while exploring mysteries of nature and memory. She has a loyal worldwide following, and has toured the U. S., Canada, Australia, Europe, and Japan, with appearances at major festivals.

"4-Stars. Her CD Firefly reaffirms Yamamoto's standing as a contemporary pianist of the highest order. While she has a deft sense of harmony and note selection, not to mention sheer chops, her virtuosity never gets in the way of playing it straight from the heart." DownBeat

See Eri Yamamoto in performance Live at Cornelia Street Cafe

This concert is presented with the support of the Embassy of Japan.

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
n Evening with Pianist FERNANDO OTERO
Monday, May 8, 2017
GRAMMY® winning Buenos Aires native Fernando Otero is a compositional and pianistic powerhouse. He crosses genres with his improvisational flair, deeply rooted in Tango, yet effortlessly quoting from the classical and jazz lexicons. Commissions from performers and institutions alike include The New York State Council on The Arts , Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Imani Winds, Paquito D’Rivera, and Arturo O’Farrill.
"Mr. Otero vibrantly summoned tango ancestors while also acknowledging Bartok and Prokofiev," The New York Times
"alternates between jagged suspenseful crescendos and long, sinuous melodies. This music bounds out of the speakers and leaps into every corner of the room at once, exhilarating but also bewildering." Jazziz Magazine
"a resourceful pianist and composer...a darkly ravishing album," The New York Times

05/20/2023

Piano Jazz at the Arts Club
An Evening with Pianist ORRIN EVANS
Monday, March 6, 2017
Orrin Evans keeps his music on the front burner with the neo-soul/acid jazz ensemble Luv Park, the collective trio Tarbaby, and the raucous Captain Black Big Band. With 25 CD's to his credit, Orrin Evans paints with a broad musical brush that encompasses small and large jazz ensembles, poetry collaborations, and film scoring. He has worked with poets Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka, and created multi-media dance projects. Orrin has scored music for PBS documentary Revolution ’67, Jazz at Lincoln Center (in honor of Sun Ra’s centennial) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (celebrating Thomas Hart Benton’s mural “America Today.”) Orrin has recently collaborated with jazz notables Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson Nicholas Payton, Oliver Lake, JD Allen, and Christian McBride.
"Wherever else he went, be it from angular, choppy chords and Monkish dissonance to ragtimey simplicity, Evans never left the blues far behind." Jazz Times

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