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SUMMARY:Christopher Taylor - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required) \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nChristopher Taylor\, piano \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nHailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times)\, Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests.  He is known for a passionate advocacy of music written in the past 100 years — Messiaen\, Ligeti\, and Bolcom figure prominently in his performances — but his repertoire spans four centuries and includes the complete Beethoven sonatas\, the Liszt Transcendental Etudes\, Bach’s Goldberg Variations\, and a multitude of other familiar masterworks. Whatever the genre or era of the composition\, Mr. Taylor brings to it an active imagination and intellect coupled with heartfelt intensity and grace. \nMr. Taylor has concertized around the globe\, with international tours taking him to Russia\, Western Europe\, East Asia\, and the Carribean. At home in the U.S. he has appeared with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic\, Los Angeles Philharmonic\,  Detroit Symphony\, and the Milwaukee Symphony.  As a soloist he has performed in New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls\, in Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, the Ravinia and Aspen festivals\, and dozens of other venues. In chamber settings\, he has collaborated with many eminent musicians\, including Robert McDuffie and the Borromeo\, Shanghai\, Pro Arte\, and Ying Quartets. His recordings have featured works by Liszt\, Messiaen\, and present-day Americans William Bolcom and Derek Bermel. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor has become known for undertaking memorable and unusual projects.  Examples include: an upcoming tour in which he will perform\, from memory\, the complete transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies by Liszt;  performances and lectures on the complete etudes of György Ligeti; and a series of performances of the Goldberg Variations on the unique double-manual Steinway piano in the collection of the University of Wisconsin.  He has actively promoted the rediscovery and refurbishment of the latter instrument; in recent years he has also been building a reinvented and modernized version of it\, a project that relies on his computer and engineering skills and was unveiled in a demonstration recital in 2016. \nNumerous awards have confirmed Mr. Taylor’s high standing in the musical world. He was named an American Pianists’ Association Fellow for 2000\, before which he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1996 and the Bronze Medal in the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 1990 he took first prize in the William Kapell International Piano Competition\, and also became one of the first recipients of the Irving Gilmore Young Artists’ Award. \nMr. Taylor owes much of his success to several outstanding teachers\, including Russell Sherman\, Maria Curcio-Diamand\, Francisco Aybar\, and Julie Bees. In addition to his busy concert schedule\, he currently serves as Paul Collins Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He pursues a variety of other interests\, including: mathematics (he received a summa cum laude degree from Harvard University in this field in 1992); philosophy (an article he coauthored with the leading scholar Daniel Dennett appears in the Oxford Free Will Handbook); computing; linguistics; and biking\, which is his primary means of commuting. Mr. Taylor lives in Middleton\, Wisconsin\, with his wife and two daughters. Christopher Taylor is a Steinway artist.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/christopher-taylor/
LOCATION:Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Jazz Standards Ensemble & UW Jazz Orchestra with Dennis Mackrel - Guest Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series \nDennis Mackrel\, drums \nWith Jazz Standards Ensemble & UW Jazz Orchestra \nAruṇ Lūthrā and Mitchell Shiner\, directors \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nJazz drummer Dennis Mackrel is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Chair of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Flushing\, NY. He is a former member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983-1987\, as the last drummer to be hired by Count Basie himself\, and later as the orchestra’s leader from 2010-2013\, and of leading big bands such as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra\, the American Jazz Orchestra\, the Carla Bley Big Band\, Buck Clayton’s Swing Band\, and the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band\, as well as small groups\, including the George Shearing Quintet and the Hank Jones Trio. He has also recorded with Maria Schneider\, Thad Jones\, Mel Lewis\, Scott Robinson\, Frank Wess\, Bill Charlap\, Bucky Pizzarelli\, Joe Williams\, and many others. \nMackrel has also served as conductor and/or arranger for the McCoy Tyner Big Band (including two GRAMMY-winning album releases\, The Turning Point and Journey)\, the Danish Radio Big Band (Copenhagen\, DK)\, the WDR Big Band (Cologne\, DE)\, and the Kluvers Big Band (Aarhus\, DK). He served as chief conductor of the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam\, NL)\, which in 2019 was awarded the prestigious Edison Award for their double- CD Crossroads\, and toured extensively in Europe\, China\, Russia\, Indonesia\, and the United States until the global pandemic of 2020. His compositions and arrangements have also been recorded by the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Jazz Knights Big Band\, the Temple University Jazz Ensemble\, the RIAS Big Band (Berlin\, DE)\, the University of North Texas “One O’clock” Big Band\, and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. \nMackrel is an experienced jazz educator who conducts master classes\, seminars\, and workshops internationally. He has taught as guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in Aarhus (DK)\, as Visiting Artist in Jazz Studies at the Eastman School of Music and serves on the jazz faculties at the Birch Creek Summer Music Academy in Egg Harbor\, WI and the Skidmore Jazz Institute in Saratoga Springs\, NY. He has performed with the jazz ensembles of numerous colleges and high schools including the Eastman School of Music\, Slippery Rock University\, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh\, Northern Illinois University\, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music\, the University of Minnesota-Morris\, New Trier High School\, Sun Prairie High School\, Western Illinois University\, Southern Utah University\, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Aarhus (DK)\, the University of Florida\, Miami\, the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, Elmhurst College\, Michigan State University and many others.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/jazz-standards-jazz-orchestra-mackrel/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Guest Artist Series
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