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Union Bank is a registered trademark and brand name of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. Untitled-2 1 12/17/18 4:34 PM April 2019 Volume 15, No. 4 WELCOMEFrom Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit arts organization Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Senior Vice President As we move away from the cold months of winter and embrace the warmth Kajsa Puckett of spring and summer, we welcome you to the final chapter of our 2018/2019 Vice President, Sales & Marketing season. With a thrilling mix of music, dance, film and storytelling, we finish Genay Genereux this season strong with performances that will both engage and inspire! Accounting & Office Manager Sure to be a highlight of our season, we welcome our long-time partners from Production Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) back to The Paramount for two performances Susan Peterson on April 27 and 28. With a program partially commissioned by STG, DTH Vice President, Production brings its incredible artistry and precision to the stage in celebration of the Jennifer Sugden Company’s 50th Anniversary! Assistant Production Manager DTH was founded in 1969 by the legendary Arthur Mitchell and his former Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers teacher, the late Karel Shook, with the primary goal of providing access to the art form of classical ballet to people of all ethnic and socio-economic Sales backgrounds. Now a globally-acclaimed dance institution, DTH has evolved Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives to comprise a professional touring Company, a school, and a broad range of community programs. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Virginia Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, Johnson, the 16-member professional dance ensemble tours across national Amelia Heppner, Ann Manning Seattle Area Account Executives and international stages and has performed in 41 countries on six continents, in 44 states, and in more than 250 cities across North America. Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Focused on a future that is characterized by expansion and engagement, Marketing DTH’s approach aligns beautifully with STG’s. A true partnership in every Shaun Swick sense of the word, our organizations support one another in offering Senior Designer & Digital Lead exceptional art while also bringing people together from across the Ciara Caya community. Arts education and exposure is a central part of both DTH’s and Marketing Coordinator STG’s mission, as shown with the DTH School—which provides high quality dance training to students from diverse backgrounds—and STG’s many Encore Media Group educational and community programs. 425 North 85th Street We congratulate our dear friends at DTH on their extraordinary milestone and Seattle, WA 98103 look forward to continuing our partnership for many years to come! p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] Josh LaBelle www.encoremediagroup.com Executive Director Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. encoremediagroup.com/programs 3 PARAMOUNT AND MOORE SEASON PARTNERS Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion Drumming crosses cultures and unites us in Zakir Hussain is the pre-eminent the dance of the heart. Zakir Hussain is not classical tabla virtuoso of our time and is only the acknowledged master tabla player appreciated both in the field of percussion of that most sophisticated of the world’s and in the music world at large as an musical heritages, the classical North Indian, international phenomenon. A national but also a student of an astonishing array of treasure in his native India, he is one of percussion traditions. the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion, an collaborations, including Shakti, the Diga outgrowth of Zakir’s duet tours with his late Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Tabla Beat father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, began Science, Celtic Connection, Sangam with their biennial appearances in 1996 to provide Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, in trio a platform for rarely heard rhythm traditions with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer and, from India. Over time, the ensemble has most recently, with Herbie Hancock. The expanded to include great drummers and foremost disciple of his father, the legendary percussionists from many world traditions, Ustad Allarakha, Zakir was a child prodigy including jazz, as well as the occasional who began his professional career at the stringed instrument. 2019 will be the age of 12, accompanying India’s greatest centennial year of Allarakha’s birth, so this classical musicians and dancers, and touring will be a very special MOP tour. internationally with great success by the age of 18. 2019 will see him joined by the astonishing Niladri Kumar on sitar, the peerless Eric As a composer, he has scored music for Harland (Charles Lloyd, Sangam) on numerous feature films and major events Western drums, and the Kerala Drummers and has composed three concertos. The most from the Southwestern coast of India. recent enjoys the distinction of being the first-ever concerto for tabla and orchestra They will perform together and separately, and was premiered in India in September and it will be awe-inspiring, because they 2015, in Europe and the UK in 2016, and really are Masters (very much including the in the United States in April 2017, by the sitarist!), and Zakir Hussain is a true maestro National Symphony Orchestra The Kennedy who can bring out the magic in everyone on Center. A multiple Grammy Award winner, the stage – and in the audience. he is the recipient of countless awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan, 4 SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP THE MOORE THEATRE APRIL 2 National Heritage Fellowship and Officier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted “Best Percussionist” by both the DownBeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is the founder and president of Moment! Records, an independent record label presenting rare live concert recordings of Indian classical Opposite: Kerala music and world music. Zakir was resident Clockwise from artistic director at SFJazz from 2013 until right: Niladri 2016, and was presented with their Lifetime Kumar, Zakir Achievement Award in 2017 in recognition Hussain, Eric of his “unparalleled contribution to the Harland world of music.” Blessed with a lineage of five generations of sitar players, Niladri Kumar is a world renowned and global icon to reckon with. Under the guidance and numerous years of training from his father and guru Pandit Kartick Kumar, Niladri, after gaining an in-depth, profound, and sound understanding of Indian Classical Music, went on to revolutionize the style of sitar playing and further invent his own instrument, the red electric sitar, which he coined as the Zitar. He is hailed as one of the serious exponents of Indian music and has an uncanny, prodigious style in making this music appealing to the youth and the masses at large. Critics state that he has an unmatchable, effortless mastery over the instrument, and it is indeed a unique treat to witness his swift, agile, and magical fingers produce soul stirring, brilliant compositions. response style of drumming using the South He has inspired many to learn the sitar, and groups, including James Farm with Joshua Indian chenda, a cylindrical instrument. through his illustrious career has emerged Redman, Prism with Dave Holland and This art is often associated with the story- as a one of a kind cause for national pride. Kevin Eubanks, Sangam with Charles Lloyd play style of Kathakali, a classical South He has been bestowed and recognized with and Zakir Hussain, Overtone with Dave Indian dance form. Eventually, Mattannur several prestigious awards, valued titles, has Holland, Jason Moran, and Chris Potter, was assigned the role of “Mela Pramani,” released over 10 albums. In addition, Niladri and his own Voyager. Outside jazz, he’s also and performed it in Temple Festivals across has contributed immensely to the Indian film collaborated with Les Claypool’s Primus, Southern India. In duet form, he has played industry. His live performances are known to John Mayer, Mariah Carey, Steve Miller, with such greats as Ustad Allarakha and transpose audiences to another world. and Spike Lee. Eric was the Resident Artistic Director at the SF Jazz Center for the 2014- Padmashree Umayalpuaram Sivaraman. He was awarded the Padmasree by the President Eric Harland is the most “in demand” 2016 seasons and the Artist in Residence at of India in 2009. drummer of his generation, primarily but the Monterey Jazz Festival of 2014. After not exclusively in the world of jazz.
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