Donal Fox Inventions Trio

Friday, May 8, 2015, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Donal Fox Inventions Trio s e n o J u o L Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project Donal Fox piano, composer, arranger John Lockwood double bass Yoron Israel drums, percussion Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. Jazz at Cal Performances is sponsored by Nadine Tang and Bruce Smith. Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 15 PROGRAM A NOTES SCARLATTI JAZZ SUITE PROJECT Says Howard Mandel, senior contributor to DownBeat : “Internationally acclaimed pianist, With his award-winning Scarlatti Jazz Suite composer, and improviser Donal Fox is Project , Donal Fox has forged a unique amal - simply without peer. He is a bravura concert gam of jazz, Latin, and classical music. artist whose performance of bracingly origi - Combining deep grooves with sophisticated nal repertoire such as Peace Out for impro - contrapuntal lines, he and his Inventions Trio vised piano and orchestra and the Scarlatti create a striking musical collage that is at once Jazz Suite Project have earned him prestigious stirring, visceral, imaginative, and intellectu - honors…gratifying residencies and appoint - ally curious. Mr. Fox mines the rich resources ments…and the awed applause of critics and of jazz and classical literature, crafting an ex - audiences alike. Audacious and exacting panding repertoire of original compositions though Fox’s music is, he communicates di - seamlessly wedded to the undeniable pulse of rectly and seeks to elevate everyone’s musical Afro-Cuban jazz. His inventive blend marches interactions beyond expectation and conven - boldly toward new sounds, effortlessly “con - tions. Fox has a singular presence in today’s founding the genre police” ( DownBeat ). circle of serous cultural activists.” PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS ONAL FOX is internationally acclaimed as Acoustic and electric bassist John Lockwood , Dcomposer, pianist, and improviser in originally from South Africa, has toured the both jazz and classical music. His numerous United States and Europe with Joe Henderson, awards include a Guggenheim fellowship in Freddie Hubbard, Gary Burton, the Mel Lewis music composition and a fellowship from the Big Band, Donal Fox, and The Fringe. He has Bogliasco Foundation. He served as the first also performed with the Buffalo African-American composer-in-residence Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the MIT with the St. Louis Symphony and was a visit - Symphony, Pat Metheny, Dizzy Gillespie, ing artist at Harvard University, where he re - Woody Shaw, Toots Thielemans, Stan Getz, ceived a Certificate of Recognition from the Art Farmer, and Clark Terry. Mr. Lockwood President of Harvard College for his contri - received his B.M. in composition from bution to the arts. Mr. Fox recently premièred Berklee College of Music. He currently his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln teaches jazz studies and contemporary im - Center, his Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project at provisation at the New England Conservatory Tanglewood, and gave the world première of of Music and is Associate Professor of bass his concerto Peace Out , for improvised piano studies at Berklee. and orchestra, at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. He has been Yoron Israel ’s varied credentials and illustri - Composer-in-Residence at the Oberpfälzer ous career includes five recordings as a leader Künstlerhaus (Germany), Tyrone Guthrie and hundreds of recordings as an accompanist. Centre (Ireland), Djerassi Resident Artist He has performed worldwide and recorded Program, Liguria Study Center (Italy), and with such renowned artists as Ahmad Jamal, Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Art Farmer, Abbey Lincoln, David “Fathead” among others. Mr. Fox has performed and Newman, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, James recorded with many artists, including Oliver Williams, Cedar Walton, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Lake, John Stubblefield, David Murray, Elliott Oliver Lake, Eliane Elias, Sonny Rollins, Red Sharp, Regina Carter, George Mraz, Al Foster, Holloway, Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Roy Stefon Harris, Christian Scott, Terri Lyne Hargrove, Vanessa Rubin, and Cyrus Carrington, Maya Beiser, Hilary Hahn, and Chestnut, among numerous others. poet Quincy Troupe, among others. He has Mr. Israel is Professor and Assistant Chair recorded as composer and pianist for the New of Percussion at Berklee College of Music. He World, Evidence, Music & Arts, Passin’ Thru, has been teaching on the collegiate level, Yamaha Original Artist Series, and Wergo since 1992 , on the faculties at Rutgers record labels. His works are published by University, William Paterson University, and Margun Music, G. Schirmer, and Leonellis Mannes College The New School for Music. Music. He is a recipient of the prestigious He also presents music camps, clinics, and American Academy of Arts and Letters workshops throughout the world. His educa - Academy Award in Music and a Martin tional DVD, Creative Improvisation for the Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar Emeritus at Drum Set , is published by Hal Leonard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Berklee Press. Mr. Israel received his M.M. Mr. Fox was recently featured on the from Rutgers University and B.M. from Emancipation GHF series presented by WQXR, Roosevelt University. part of the NEXT New York Conversation, Mr. Israel is an endorser of Sonor drums, and the Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Zildjian cymbals, Evans drum heads, Vater Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center. drumsticks, mallets, brushes, and accessories, Mr. Fox is a Steinway Artist and is exclu - and Hamilton stands. sively represented by Bernstein Artists, Inc. CAL PERFORMANCES.

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