Ordinarily, I don’t use words to describe a musician’s physical appearance. My assignment is to describe the elements and the quality of the universally inspiring art form of music, the potentially eternal purity of which exists at a level higher than the finite characteristics of the human body. However, Orrin …
Chopin’s famous Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 in E minor is the composition he wanted to be played at his funeral. Juan María Solare releases his recording of this heartbreaking miniature promptly on the composer’s 214th birtday.
The pianist Juan María Solare releases a 7-track album of neoclassical and minimal piano music. In this album, each of the titles can be read as verses of a poem. Expressiveness and unconventionality in ideal balance.
New Piano recording by Juan María Solare. “Petzold: Two Minuets from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach”. Petzold’s Minuets have been wrongly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach (because of their inclusion in Bach’s Notebook for Anna Magdalena). Ironically, that was one reason for their success.
Album Release: ‘Numbered Places’ (neo-classical piano music) by Juan Maria Solare
April 13,14 & 15, 2018 Celebrating the refined art of solo jazz piano, in partnership with the Brattleboro Music Center, at their new facility. Friday. April 13 at the Brattleboro Music Center Concert Hall, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT 05301: 8 pm- Feature concert- Kirk Lightsey &Harold Danko, solo …
Florida pianist, composer, and arranger Ryan Slatko recently released his debut album entitled First Impressions backed by a notable line-up of prominent musicians including Daniel Dickinson (alto/soprano saxophone); Linda Oh (acoustic bass); Ulysses Owens, Jr. (drums); Joel Ross (vibraphone); and Samir Zarif (tenor saxophone). The independent recording was recorded in …
Caili O’Doherty Quartet- Emerging Artist Series. Saturday, October 1, 2016 8 pm Pianist Caili O’Doherty’s 2015 release Padme won NPR’s 10th Annual Jazz Critic’s Poll for Best Debut Album. She garnered an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award and recognition for her work as a composer and pianist from Downbeat …
(CINCINNATI, Ohio) – Multi-Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Christian Sands will include “Southern Song,” his moving tribute to Black History Month, when he performs in Cincinnati on Sunday, February 28, as part of the Xavier University Jazz Series. The piece was inspired by a poem of the same title, by the late …
Jazz enthusiasts, loyal and passionate listeners as they are known to be, may assert that a decade or a specific style, such as swing or bebop, defines the golden age of jazz. But continuously accumulating, ground-breaking recordings by superlative musicians are establishing the fact that we are living in another …
