Larry has recorded with Jack DeJohnett e, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, FACULTY RECITAL Ramsey Lewis, Nancy Wilson, Curtis Fuller, Ira Sullivan, Lin Halliday, Jodie Christian, Willie Ricardo Flores, percussion Pickens, Nicholas Payton, Randy Brecker, Bunky Green, Bob Moses, Irish musicians Larry Nugent, John Williams and Bohola, pop sensations Linda Eder, Dennis DeYoung, Jim Peterik and Peter William Moersch, percussion Cetera, and songwriter Michael Smith, among others. The recording, Jack DeJohnett e Made in Chicago, was released in March 2015 followed by a series of historic concerts including the North Sea Jazz Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival. Larry was seen on several episodes of the PBS series hosted by Ramsey Lewis, Legends of Jazz, with artists like Jim Hall, Clark Terry, Chris Pott er, Phil Woods, Foellinger Great Hall Roy Hargrove and Benny Golson. He is an experienced studio musician, and his playing has been Saturday, November 9, 2019 heard on numerous radio and television jingle and album projects. Larry Gray’s website is www. 7:30 pm larrygraymusic.com GARWOOD WHALEY Dialogue (1970) (b. 1942) Upcoming: UI Percussion Ensemble & Steel Band Studio Theater AKEMI NAITO Five Waka by Saigyo (2011) (Solo version) Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (b. 1956) Tuesday, November 19, 2019 William Moersch, marimba 7:30 pm RICARDO FLORES Conversation (2019) (b. 1961) LARRY GRAY (b. 1954) Ricardo Flores, congas Larry Gray, double bass THOM HASENPFLUG Looking Down to See the Sky (2019) (b. 1966) (Regional premiere) INTERMISSION ERIK LUND Subject to Change (2019) (World premiere) (b. 1958) Ricardo Flores, percussion LARRY GRAY Four Movements (2019) (World premiere) (b. 1954) Opening Scherzo a2 Refl ect Horizon William Moersch, marimba Larry Gray, electric bass guitar SAUL COSENTINO La Depre (1970) (b. 1935) OSVALDO TARANTINO (1927-1973) ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Adios Nonino (1959) (1921-1992) As artist, performer, and educator, percussionist Ricardo Flores has been captivating audiences Bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Larry Gray, who joined the School of Music in 2007 for years playing classical percussion, drum set, and world percussion in orchestral, chamber, jazz, demonstrates an impressive versatility and an uncommon musical curiosity. Mr. Gray has enjoyed pop, Latin and many other musical sett ings. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at a four-decades-plus career in which he has performed and collaborated with a long list of some of Urbana-Champaign in 2000 where he holds the title of Associate Professor on the Percussion Faculty the world’s most important jazz artists, including Jack DeJohnett e, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, Gary specializing in drum set and Latin percussion and directs the Steel Band / World Percussion Ensemble. Bartz , Barry Harris, Benny Golson, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Williams, McCoy Tyner, Ira Sullivan, Jackie McLean, Sonny Stitt , James Moody, Sonny Stitt , Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Clark Terry, J.J. Flores has appeared with numerous groups and artists including the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Johnson, George Coleman, Lee Konitz , Benny Green, and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Eddie Harris and Jack Shantz Jazz Unit, the Akron Symphony, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Ballet and Les McCann, among many others. Opera Orchestras, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Naples Philharmonic, the Symphony of Southwest Florida, the Florida Orchestra, Luciano Pavarott i, Aretha Franklin, Diane Shuur, Tony Bennett , Alex He has fi ve solo recordings to his credit, Solo + Quartet, Gravity, 1,2,3, One Look and Three Equals Acuña, Hal Linden, Mitz i Gaynor, Louie Bellson, Terry Gibbs, the Four Freshmen, Jiggs Whigham, One. Among many projects as a collaborator or sideman, he appeared on many CDs during his Victor Mendoza, John Riley, Howard Johnson, Vernon Reid, John Faddis and Peter Erskine. twelve years as a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, including Appossianata and Meant to Be, with Nancy Wilson, and many other jazz recordings. Through the years, he has toured with many Currently Principal Percussionist of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony and the Sinfonia da Camera, artists, including Jack DeJohnett e, Larry Coryell, Joe Williams, Clark Terry, Frank Wess, Monty Ricardo also plays drums and Latin percussion with various jazz groups throughout the Midwest. Alexander, James Moody, Marian McPartland, Dorothy Donegan, Steve Turre and Ramsey Lewis, He has presented concerts, clinics and master classes in the United States, Canada, Europe, China appearing at many important festivals and concert venues worldwide. and South America at such venues as the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, The Florida State University, the Hartt School of Music, the Percussive Arts Society International More recently he is heard on the ECM recording Jack DeJohnett e-Made in Chicago, recorded live at Convention, the Tri-C Jazz Festival in Cleveland, OH, the 2008 International Association of Jazz Pritz ker Pavilion with Mr. DeJohnett e, joined by legendary improvisers Muhal Richard Abrams, Educators Conference in Toronto, the Sichuan and the Wuhan Conservatories and the Second Dalian Roscoe Mitchell, and Henry Threadgill. He also worked for years with Larry Coryell’s Trio, International Broadcasting Music Festival (China), the Sixth International Percussion Forum in Zagan, alongside drummer Paul Wertico. Other recent projects include Gray Wilkerson Ra Trio, featuring Poland, the 2nd International Congress of Percussion and the Crossdrumming Festival in Jelenia Gora the internationally acclaimed Ed Wilkerson and Avreeayl Ra, his own longtime trio with guitarist and Warsaw, Poland and the Fourth Patagonian Percussion Festival in Argentina. Flores has also John Moulder and drummer Charles Heath, a duo project with Mr. Moulder and an improvisational performed on the Carnegie Hall stage as a soloist with the University of Illinois Wind Symphony. trio with Mr. Wertico and multimedia artist and improviser David Cain, Wertico Cain and Gray. One other recent collaboration was an evening of duos with double bass and U of I faculty artists John Ricardo can be heard on recordings with performers such as Arturo Sandoval, Dan Wall, Kenny Dee, Jonathan Keeble, Yvonne Redman and Barrington Coleman. Anderson, Chip Stevens, the Jack Shantz Jazz Unit, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Sinfonia da Camera. He is former President of the Illinois Chapter of The Percussive Arts Society, served on the Larry has toured extensively, performing at jazz festivals and clubs, including the Umbria Jazz PAS Drum Set Committ ee for 15 years and now is a member of the PAS World Percussion Committ ee. Festival, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, The Montreux Detroit Festival, the ECM Festival, the Poznan Jazz Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the Havana Jazz Festival, William Moersch is internationally renowned as a marimba virtuoso, chamber and symphonic Rio Sao Paulo Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Johannesburg International percussionist, recording artist, and educator. He has appeared as soloist with symphonic orchestras Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, Village Vanguard, the Blue and in recital throughout North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia. A regularly Notes in Tokyo, Nagoya, New York and Milan, Ronnie Scott ’s in London, Zawinul’s Birdland in featured artist at international percussion festivals, he has performed on more than seventy recordings Vienna, and the Ravinia Festival, with such jazz luminaries as Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, and is perhaps best known for commissioning much of the prominent modern repertoire for Nancy Wilson Roscoe Mitchell, James Moody, Larry Coryell, Louis Bellson, Barry Harris, Dorothy marimba, from composers including Irwin Bazelon, Richard Rodney Bennett , Martin Bresnick, Jacob Donegan, Monty Alexander, Frank Wess, Joe Williams, Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band, Druckman, Eric Ewazen, David Lang, Paul Lansky, Libby Larsen, Steven Mackey, Akemi Naito, and Kenny Drew Jr. Larry toured the world as the bassist in the Ramsey Lewis trio from 1998-2010. Roger Reynolds, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, John Serry, Andrew Thomas, Alejandro Viñao, James Wood, and Charles Wuorinen. In addition, he was the fi rst marimbist ever to receive As a lifetime Chicagoan, Larry Gray’s musical history is quite rich and varied, including his classical a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship and has also been honored by N.E.A. studies and degrees in cello performance at Chicago Musical College, his history as a double bassist Recording and Consortium Commissioning grants. in Civic Orchestra and as substitute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and innumerable recordings and performances in Chicago’s concert and club venues, most notably the iconic Jazz Prior to his appointment at the University of Illinois in 1998, Mr. Moersch was a free-lance musician Showcase, and its major recording studios.. in New York City for over two decades. He performed with the American Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, New Jersey Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, New York City Opera, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, as a featured soloist in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance, and on numerous motion picture soundtracks. Mr. Moersch also created graduate degree programs in marimba performance at the Peabody Conservatory and Rutgers University and has presented master classes throughout the world. Currently, he is Principal Timpanist of Sinfonia da Camera and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of New Music Marimba, on the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Advisors, and an Artist Endorser for Pearl Drums / Adams Percussion, SABIAN cymbals, Grover Pro Percussion, and Innovative Percussion mallets..