Williamstown Jazz Festival
Celebrates New Orleans
April 9 – 17, 2008
Click here to view a sample of past performances
Donn Young Photo Exhibit
‘62 Center
For the entire month of April ‘62 Center will host a photo exhibit by Donn Young.
web site info Contact info:
Donn Young Photography
http://www.donnyoung.com
Wednesday, April 9
Zydeco Dance Instruction with Susan Huppe
Goodrich Hall second Floor Dance Studio, at the corner of Spring and Main Streets.
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reservations: 413.597.2410.
FREE
Sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union.
Susan Huppe is an enthusiastic teacher from the Boston area who makes learning to dance fun and easy. She has been dancing and teaching for over 17 years and is much sought after in New England for her Cajun and Zydeco classes.
http://www.massmoca.org/
Thursday, April 10
Zydeco Dance Instruction with Susan Huppe
Mass MoCA Rehearsal Hall.
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Reservations: MASS MoCA box office at 413.662.2111.
FREE
Sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union.
Films: Left Behind in Louisiana / South of Ten
Presented in conjunction with the Williamstown Jazz Festival.
MASS MoCA Cinema Lounge
7:30 p.m.
To purchase tickets, call the MASS MoCA box office at 413.662.2111
$7.00 Single Admission
MASS MoCA presents films by local filmmakers that offer fascinating and very different looks at recovery and resilience in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Holly Hardmans’s work-in-progress Left Behind in Louisiana offers an intimate portrait of evangelical Christian families and churches along the Gulf Coast whose fervent belief in End Times prophecy guides them through the rebuilding process. Williams College professor Liza Johnson’s experimental documentary South of Ten juxtaposes ten surreal sequences of average people taking small steps to rebuild their lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The filmmakers join us for a discussion after the screening.
http://www.massmoca.org
Friday, April 11
17th Annual Intercollegiate Jazz Festival Day 1
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Free
College bands playing for adjudication by Charles Ellison and Gary Smulyan.
** All times subject to change.
| 12 p.m. |
TBD |
| 1 p.m. |
CCRI, Directed by Dr. Steve Lajoie |
| 2 p.m. |
Rhode Island College, Directed by Joe Foley |
| 3 p.m. |
Rivers School, Directed by Philippe Crettien |
College bands playing for adjudication by Charles Ellison and Gary Smulyan
Adjudicators:
Charles Ellison was born in Trenton, Tennessee. High school and university were completed in Indiana. He moved to Montreal in 1975. Charles has been a full time faculty member in the Department of Music of Concordia University, Montreal, Québec since 1980. He has served as Chairman of the Department.
He is recognized as a trumpeter and composer of distinction and accomplishment in Canada and the United States. Over his career he has been worked with an impressive roster of artists and organizations including Cannonball Adderley, David Baker, Ted Dunbar, Marvin Gaye, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, The Staple Singers, Henry Threadgill, sonny Greenwich, Don Thompson, Barry Elmes, the big bands of Andrew Homzy and Vic Vogel, I Musici de Montréal and the Montreal Symphony.
He leads his jazz quintet Positive Vibrations. He founded and directs the vocal jazz ensemble Pipes. He is a member of the new and exciting trumpet ensemble Brazz. Additionally he leads a brass choir and a woodwinds choir.
In 1991 Charles was invited by co-conductors David Baker and Gunther Schuller to become a charter member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
In 1987 the U.S. Congress passed a resolution declaring jazz a “rare and valuable national American treasure.” The orchestra reaffirms the Museum’s commitment to the preservation an interpretation of jazz as the most significant music to emerge in the United States. The work of the orchestra, free public concerts in Washington , across the United States and in Canada is documented and presented by National Public Radio affiliates with Lena Horne hosting Smithsonian Jazz.
Charles Ellison is a dedicated teacher. His students and peers attest to his strength as a teacher. He was the recipient of the Concordia University Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995. He loves teaching. He loves performing and writing. His colleagues in the music business attest to his strength as a perfomer.
Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan is critically acclaimed as one of the major voices 
on the baritone saxophone today. As a teenager growing up on Long Island, Gary had the opportunity to perform with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, and Jimmy Knepper.
In 1978 he was asked to join Woody Herman's Young Thundering Herd, which at that time included Joe Lovano, Marc Johnson and John Riley. He left Herman in 1980 and moved back to New York to join the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra led by Bob Brookmeyer. Mr. Smulyan has recorded and performed worldwide with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Tom Harrell. Cedar Walton, George Coleman, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Diana Ross, Clark Terry, Kenny Wheeler, Charles McPherson, James Moody and Slide Hampton, among others.
He has recorded 5 CDs for the CrissCross label. THE LURE OF BEAUTY, SAXOPHONE MOSAIC (voted one of the best 25 CDs of 1995 by WBGO, New York's leading FM jazz station), HOMAGE (featuring Tommy Flanagan), GARY SMULYAN WITH STRINGS (selected as one of the 10 best jazz CDs of 1997 by the Boston Globe) and most recently BLUE SUITE WITH BRASS. Gary's new release, The Real Deal, on Reservoir Records is currently available.
Mr. Smulyan currently performs with the VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA, the JOE LOVANO NONET, the DAVE HOLLAND OCTET and BIG BAND, THE THREE BARITONE SAXOPHONE BAND, the GEORGE COLEMAN OCTET, the DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL STAR BIG BAND and the TOM HARRELL OCTET, as well as his own projects.
He is the winner of of the 1990 JAZZ TIMES CRITICS POLL, the 1994 DOWN BEAT READERS POLL, the 1998 DOWN BEAT CRITICS POLL (TDWR), and is the winner of the 2001 DOWN BEAT CRITICS POLL (TDWR). He also listed in the 1998 DOWN BEAT and JAZZ TIMES READERS POLLS. Gary was recently announced the winner of the 2004 Jazz Journalists' Award for Baritone Saxophonist of the Year and winner of the 2007 Down Beat Critics Poll.
Mr. Smulyan is currently on faculty at William Paterson University and is a clinician and endorser for Vandoren Woodwind Products and Keilworth Saxophones.
http://www.garysmulyan.com
Donn Young: 
Lecture by Official Photographer For The Port of New Orleans
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
4:30 P.M.
Free
Donn Young lost his home, his studio, and more than 1 million photographs during Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of the disaster, Young returned to New Orleans to document the devastation, and photograph the survivors and volunteers who are working to rebuild the city. Young will present “40 Days and 40 Nights,” a lecture about post-Katrina New Orleans that will feature his photographs.
40 Days and 40 Nights info:
http://www.sph.tulane.edu/40days
http://www.40daysand40nights.us
Gospel Concert featuring Kim and Reggie Harris
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 35 Park St., Wiliamstown
6:30 p.m.
Info 413.458.8144
Free
Kim and Reggie Harris are two vibrant, superbly talented and engaging performers whose captivating stage presence has inspired audiences around the world for over 25 years.
As singers, songwriters, storytellers, educators, historical interpreters and cultural advocates, they have used their remarkable voices and their unique talents to bring new insights to the entertainment and educational spectrum.
Born in Philadelphia, PA. a city rich in musical and cultural heritage, Kim and Reggie were both exposed to a wide range of composers and musical genres. Their training, nurtured in their individual homes and enhanced in their churches and schools, enriched their musical vocabulary. It was the start of what has evolved into the " Bach to Rock" musical approach (with the strongest elements being Folk, Gospel and Jazz) that is so prevalent in their music.
They have been featured in performance at the Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, The International Children's Festival in Canada,The Wang Center, The Pike's Peak Center, various festivals in the U.S, Canada and Italy and a host of universities, schools, churches and performing venues.
Kim and Reggie are presenters in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Touring workshop program providing teacher training and arts events that encourage the use of the arts in the classroom. They are featured artists in Silver Burdett and Ginn's "World of Music", a leading educational music series; they have, in collaboration with Chatham Hill Games, produced the "Underground Railroad Activity Set" (a video, game and teaching guide) for use by teachers and parents and they continue to be sought after presenters on the subjects of the Underground Railroad, the Modern Civil Rights Movement and African American Music of Social Change.
Over the course of their career they have opened for and performed with a diverse array of artists including Jay Leno, Pete Seeger, Ritchie Havens, Tom Paxton, Micheal Keaton, The Indigo Girls, Janis Ian and many others.
Kim and Reggie have recorded 5 CDs on the Appleseed Recordings label, one CD for Folk Era; contributed tracks to each of Appleseed's Pete Seeger releases and are also featured (with other leading Folk and Acoustic artists) on a growing number of compilation and tribute CDs.
http://www.saintjohnswilliamstown.org
Zydeco Dance Party
with C.J. Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band 
MASS MoCA
8:00 p.m.
To purchase tickets, call the MASS MoCA box office at 413.662.2111
$14 Single Admission in advance, $18 day-of, $10 students with a valid ID
One of the bayou’s favorite sons brings his raucous band in for a foot stomping dance party of epic proportions. Chenier, whom Billboard called “the heir to the zydeco throne,” is widely regarded as one of the genre’s best singers and live performers: as the Boston Globe said, he “attacks the accordion with the tension and drive of James Brown...creating contemporary, turbo-charged dance music.” Clayton Joseph Chenier is the son of the great King of Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, the first Creole musician to win a Grammy Award. His earliest musical influences were an eclectic mix of funk, soul, jazz and Motown, and his first musical instruments were piano, tenor saxophone and flute.
http://www.concertedefforts.com/artists_cjch.html
http://www.massmoca.org/
Post Concert OPEN JAM
Café Latino on MASS MoCA campus, North Adams
For information: 413.662.2004
Cover Charge: $5.00
http://www.mezzeinc.com
Saturday, April 12
17th Annual Intercollegiate Jazz Festival Day 2
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Free
**All times subject to change
College bands again playing for adjudication by Charles Ellison and Gary Smulyan.
| 9 a.m. |
Bancroft School, Directed by Matthew Glenn |
| 10 a.m. |
Amherst College, Directed by Bruce Diehl |
| 11 a.m. |
Westfield State College, Directed by Edward Orgill |
| NOON |
LeMoyne College, Directed by Dr. J. C. Sanford |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Boston University, Directed by James Merenda |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Smith College, Directed by Genevieve Rose |
| 3:30 p.m. |
WPI, Directed by Rich Falco |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Schenectady County Community College, Directed by Dr. William Meckley |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Williams Jazz Ensemble, Directed by Andy Jaffe |
Robert Glasper Trio / Joe Lovano Quartet*, double bill
‘62 Center MAINSTAGE
8:30 p.m. Double bill
To purchase tickets, call the ‘62 Center box office at 413.597.2425
$20 Single Admission, $6 Students with valid ID
Not long after the arrival of pianist Robert Glasper on the New York City jazz scene, Ben Ratliff of the New York Times declared that Glasper’s trio “deserves comparison with the best of the newer piano trios, those led by Jason Moran, Bill Charlap and Brad Mehldau.” So it’s fitting that Glasper has decided to feature his trio exclusively on IN MY ELEMENT, his latest release for Blue Note Records. Joined again by his compatriots Vicente Archer on bass and Damion Reid on drums, Glasper displays musical maturity well beyond his 27 years, articulating bold ideas about what a jazz piano trio can achieve in the new millennium.
As deeply involved in the hip-hop world as Glasper is – he’s worked with Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, the Roots, Slum Village and more – he is clearly a diligent student of the jazz piano tradition with brilliant new tracks inspired by the great Mulgrew Miller and the legendary Sam Rivers.
While Glasper can play any standard in the book he is not content to recapitulate Tin Pan Alley harmony, AABA form or straightforward swing in his own work. Instead, he favors compact harmonic units and off-kilter rhythms that foster what Ben Ratliff calls “skittering cooperation” between the members of the trio. It’s a new way of working, but as Glasper points out: “I’m not trying, it’s just the way I hear. It’s a good way to bring my generation into checking out the music. I bring something into the music for the Hip-hop cats and gospel cats who are coming to my shows. My audience is getting a lot younger and that feels great.”
QUOTES:
"The depth of the pianist Robert Glasper's art so far has been about coordination: making all members of his piano trio move together as a single organism. It's the best part of his gigs, this stealthy motion...You hear a lot of this on IN MY ELEMENT, a follow-up to CANVAS... IN MY ELEMENT is simpler and stronger. Mr. Glasper still claims hip-hop as fertile source material... the drummer Damion Reid and the bassist Vicente Archer play spongey, changeable adaptations of hip-hop rhythm tracks, and Mr. Glasper himself plays as if he's a living sample, running off a truncated-sounding series of chord changes and playing them with the trio in a kind of real-time loop... Mr. Glasper may have big ideas about making jazz sound contemporary, but the record doesn't parade its intentions."
The New York Times
http://www.robertglasper.com
Joe’s quartet (* John Menegon, bass, Matt Wilson, drums, and Frank Kinbrough, piano) will be paying tribute to the legendary tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman who passed away a year ago last August. Joe had a special place in his heart for Dewey. Over the last decade they played and recorded together in many different musical configurations. Joe will be accompanied by the trio of Frank Kinbrough (piano), John Menegon (bass), and Matt Wilson (drums) who played behind Dewey Redman for several years before his passing.
You might think by glancing over the list of accolades garnered by saxophonist/composer Joe Lovano, that this renowned musician has found a tried-and-true formula for success, and that he has. Unlike lesser artists who will take what seems to work for them and keep coming back with more of the same, the secret to Lovano's success is his fearless ability to always challenge and push the conceptual and thematic choices he makes in a quest for new modes of artistic expression and new takes on what defines the jazz idiom.
Lovano has recently been performing with an expanded ensemble which will be featured on his Blue Note release Streams of Expression which includes Gunther Schuller’s “Birth of the Cool Suite,” commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival as well as a five part suite composed by Lovano
Joe has also been performing “A Man Descending”, a concerto for saxophone and chamber orchestra written by Mark Anthony Turnage. This piece was commissioned jointly by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Helsinki Orchestra, with all of whom Joe has performed the concerto.
In Spring of 2004 Lovano dipped into waters he has not previously coursed – his first all ballads recording. I’m All For You: Ballad Songbook found the ever-searching saxophonist in the company of long-time collaborators bassist George Mraz and drummer Paul Motian. Rounding out the impeccable line-up is the legendary pianist Hank Jones. Critics loved the record and it made numerous Best of the Year lists including #1 in the New York Times. This stellar ensemble followed the acclaimed ballad recording and the highly-anticipated concerts that followed with a sequel in May 2005.
Joyous Encounter features a more varied collection of tempos in a stellar repertoire including compositions from the leader and pianist as well as charts by Monk, Coltrane, Oliver Nelson, and Jones’ brother Thad in whose band Lovano apprenticed early on. In many ways, this recording pays tribute to the jazz legacy of the Jones brothers with the late, great drummer brother Elvin having been a collaborator of both Lovano and Hank. His memory is paid homage by the inclusion John Coltrane’s “Crescent” and Oliver Nelson’s “Six And Four” which were hallmarks of Elvin’s recording career.
These succulent programs of gorgeous, emotionally resonant playing are highlights of Lovano’s storied career. The stellar Mr. Jones brings his stunning harmonic sensibility to an array of compositions that Lovano has chosen for their timeless beauty, melodic fortitude and improvisational breadth. The chance to hear this ensemble once again relishing in each other’s company is indeed a Joyous Encounter and continued to garner the high praise heaped upon their first meeting.
Joe Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952, and began playing alto sax as a child. A prophetic early family photo is of the infant Joe cradled in his mother's arms along with a sax. His father, tenor saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano, schooled Joe not only in the basics but in dynamics and interpretation, and regularly exposed him to jazz artists traveling through such as Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Ammons, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. While still a teenager he immersed himself in the jam-session culture of Cleveland where organ trios were common and Texas tenor throw-downs a rite of passage. In high school he began to absorb the free jazz experiments of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Jimmy Giuffre, and was greatly affected by the interaction, which occurred between the musicians.
Upon graduation from high school he attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where he met and began playing with such future collaborators as John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Kenny Werner. He had been searching for a way to incorporate the fire and spirituality of late-period John Coltrane into more traditional settings. At Berklee he discovered modal harmony: "My training was all be-bop, and suddenly there were these open forms with deceptive resolutions. That turned me on, the combination of that sound and what I came in there with. I knew what I wanted to work on after that." In 1994 Joe was given the prestigious "Distinguished Alumni Award" from Berklee and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1998. Berklee also awarded Joe the first "Gary Burton Chair for Jazz Performance" in 2001.
Joe's first professional job after Berklee was, not surprisingly given his roots, with organist Lonnie Smith, which brought him to New York for his recording debut, followed by a stint with Brother Jack McDuff. This segued into a three year tour with the Woody Herman Thundering Herd from 1976 to 1979, culminating in "The 40th Anniversary Concert" at Carnegie Hall, which also features some of Joe's heroes and fellow saxophonists Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Flip Phillips, Al Cohn and Jimmy Giuffre.
http://www.joelovano.com
POST Concert Open Jam
Spice Root, 23 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA
413.458.5200
Cover Charge
http://www.spiceroot.com
Sunday, April 13
Dixieland Brunch With Music by the Jason Ennis Quartet
Gala Restaurant, located at The Orchards Hotel, 222 Adams Road, Williamstown, MA
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Reservations Suggested: 413.458-9611
$18.95
The Orchards Hotel is also offering a jazz package which includes overnight in an upgraded luxury room and two tickets to the jazz brunch on Sunday.
http://www.orchardshotel.com
Musical Legacies Concert: Freddie Bryant, Guitar
Williams College Museum of Art
2:00 p.m.
413.458.2429
Free
In response to the exhibition, Unchained Legacies, Freddie Bryant will perfroma new compositions and improvisations that explore the musical legacies of the African diaspora--from spirituals, blues, and jazz to Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean styles.
Freddie is currently in demand in the New York jazz scene where he works with Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Septet (new CD “Memories of T” on Concord Records), the Mingus Orchestra and the pianist/singer Eliane Elias. He is also on the first call list of many singers and Brazilian musicians because of his sensitive accompanying and his knowledge of Brazilian guitar. His most recent CD is with the group Trio del Sol (Twinz Records). He has four others as a leader: Brazilian Rosewood, Boogaloo Brasileiro, Live at Smoke (Fresh Sound Records) and Take Your Dance into Battle (Jazz City Spirit). Freddie has also had the honor of touring with three legends of the music world: African singer, Salif Keita, the virtuoso klezmer clarinetist, Maestro Giora Feidman and the jazz trumpet great, Tom Harrell (as a member of his quintet, 1999-2001). He has recorded and/or played with Tom Harrell, D.D. Jackson, Steve Wilson, Kevin Hays, Rosanna Vitro, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila Jordan, Randy Brecker, David Sanchez, and many others.
Over the years he has toured in 35 countries and has had the opportunity of collaborating with musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds including the Indian sitarist, Shubhendra Rao, the Kenyan singers, Achien’g Abura, Suzanna Owiyo, the Taarab master oud player Zein L’abdin and traditional groups in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. In 2006 he performed in Cuba as a solo artist and spent a week of musical exchange with Cuban musicians including the trumpet player, “El Greco” formerly of Irakere. He has toured as a cultural ambassador for The U.S. Department of State four times and recently performed at the Kennedy Center with the Billy Taylor Trio, broadcast on the National Public Radio Show, “Live at the Kennedy Center.” Education has always been a large part of his musical life. He has taught all ages from young children to university students and has lectured about jazz to audiences around the world. In 2004 he was chosen to be a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College.
To learn more about Freddie Bryant, you can visit his website at
http://www.freddiebryant.com
http://www.wcma.org
Wednesday, April 16
Gabriela Montero Concert
The Clark Art Museum
8:00 p.m.
To purchase tickets, call the MASS MoCA box office at 413.662.2111
$20 General Admission, $6 with valid student ID
Cash or check only. Phone orders can be picked up at the door.
Sponsored in part by The High Meadow Foundation.
“Ms Montero’s playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power in climactic moments, soulful lyricism in ruminative passages and, best of all, unsentimental expressivity.”
- Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique improvisational gift have won her a quickly expanding audience and devoted following around the world. Gabriela's engagements include her acclaimed New York Philharmonic debut with Lorin Maazel, the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Philharmonic with Benjamin Zander, Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Lanaudiere Festival and the Philharmonia Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel, with whom she also works regularly with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra “Simon Bolivar”.
In recital, Gabriela has appeared at the Wigmore Hall London, Kennedy Center Washington DC, National Arts Center Ottawa, Orchard Hall Tokyo, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Herkulessaal Munich, Musikhalle Hamburg, Berlin Konzerthaus, and at the Cologne Philharmonie as part of the Cologne Musiktriennale 2007 themed ‘improvisation’. Gabriela has appeared at the Roque d’Anthéron, Radio France Montpellier, Schleswig-Holstein, MDR Musiksommer, Penderecki, and Radio Canada Chopin festivals and is invited annually to the ‘Progetto Martha Argerich’ Festival in Lugano and to Martha Argerich's Buenos Aires Festival. Summer 2007 festivals include Ruhr, Lockenhaus, Verbier, San Francisco Jazz and Caramoor, as well as performances at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
After performing a concerto or recital, Gabriela often invites her audiences to suggest a melody for improvisation by way of an encore. They ask for themes from a Haydn symphony to Star Wars, or they come to the stage to play a melody on the piano that she may or may not know. “When improvising,” Gabriela says, “I connect with my audience in a completely unique way – and they connect with me.” For Montero, who maintains a busy schedule of recital and concerto appearances in the major halls and at the major music festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas, improvisation is not a sideline or a party trick. She explains, “Because improvisation is such a huge part of who I am, it is the most natural and spontaneous way I can express myself. I have been improvising since my hands first touched the keyboard, but for many years I kept this aspect of my playing secret. Then Martha Argerich overheard me improvising one day and was ecstatic. In fact, it was Martha who persuaded me that it was possible to combine my career as a serious ‘classical’ artist with the side of me that is rather unique.”
Gabriela’s first EMI/Angel CD consisted of one disc of music by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt and a second of her deeply felt and technically brilliant improvisations. Standing alongside inspired performances of core repertoire, improvisation plays as important a part in Gabriela's life as it did for Bach and Mozart and, to show the link, her EMI/Angel CD Bach and Beyond is a full disc of improvisations on themes by Bach which topped the charts for several months. In Autumn 2007 her follow up recording of improvisations, “Baroque”, was released on EMI/Angel. Gabriela is also heard on NPR’s Performance Today “Sing It and Wing It”, where listeners call in with a melody upon which Gabriela improvises. Gabriela’s talent has been profiled on CBS’s 60 Minutes. From November/ December this year, Gabriela will be performing improvisations live on the internet from her living room direct to her audience, on a bi-monthly basis.
Born in Caracas Venezuela, Gabriela gave her first public performance at the age of five. Aged eight she made her concerto debut with the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra conducted by Jose Antonio Abreu and was granted a scholarship from the Venezuelan government to study in the USA. At twelve she won the Baldwin National Competition and AMSA Young Artist International Piano Competition, performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
A former student of Lyl Tiempo, Andrez Esterhazy and Professor Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music London, Gabriela has won international prizes including the Bronze Medal at the 13th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1995, and the Echo Preis Award in Germany in 2006. A citizen of the world, Gabriela currently resides with her family in Massachusetts.
http://www.gabrielamontero.com
http://www.clarkart.edu/
Thursday, April 17
ART ASSEMBLY: 23 PRIME SOLD OUT
23 PRiME pushes the envelope, from experimenting with electric tap shoes to presenting an entire band, with tap dancers as the lead instrument. Produced by Andrew J. Nemr, 23 PRiME brings the power of storytelling to every tap dance show, offering stimulating productions for kids with a high level of professionalism. The Art Assembly series at MASS MoCA is sponsored by TDBanknorth. Greylock Credit Union and Berkshire Bank Foundation are supporters of 23 PRiME.
http://www.massmoca.org/
Area Lodging: info@williamstownchamber.com
Williams Department of Music Concert Calendar:
http://www.williams.edu/Music/
Clark Art Institute Calendar of Events:
http://www.clarkart.edu/make_a_visit/calendar_of_events
’62 Center Calendar of Events:
http://www.williams.edu/resources/62center
April is Jazz History Month!
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org
http://www.berkshirebank.com
Maps and Links:
http://www.massmoca.org/directions.php
http://www.clarkart.edu/make_a_visit/content.cfm?ID=20
http://62center.williams.edu/62center/patron_directions.cfm
