Schedule:

Friday, April 21, 2023

Friday Feature Concert:
7:30 p.m: Michael Weiss Performance
For over forty years, pianist, composer, and educator Michael Weiss has forged a formidable career working with the legends of bebop and post-bop and, as a leader, released five recordings to unanimous critical acclaim.

8:30 p.m: Dan Tepfer Performance
Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging ambition, individuality, and drive one "who refuses to set himself limits" (France’s Telerama) - through performances and releases which find him exploring in real time the intersection between science and art, coding and improvisation, digital algorithms and the rhythms of the heart.

Saturday, April 22, 2023

Educational Presentations:
10:00 a.m: Michael Weiss - "Harmony as an Expressive Devise and Storytelling in Jazz"
11:00 a.m: Orrin Evans - "Reharms Can be Fun"
12:00 p.m: Myra Melford - "Language of Dreams: Composing for Improvisers"
1:00 p.m: Lunch Break
2:00 p.m: Shiyu Fang, Emerging Artist Performance - Fang was awarded the prestigious Berklee Toshiko Akiyoshi Award, which recognizes exceptional talent in jazz composition.
She is a part of the Jazz and Gender Justice Institute at Berklee.
2:45 p.m: Remi Savard, Emerging Artist Performance - Savard is an active performer in the area both as a bandleader and a collaborator working with local musicians.
He is a graduating senior at University of Vermont studying music and microbiology.
3:30 p.m: Dan Tepfer - "From Bach to Natural Machines: Algorithms as the Shapers of Music"
4:30 p.m: Pianist Panel Discussion (Juried Questions)
5:30 p.m: Dinner Break

Saturday Feature Concert:
7:30 p.m: Myra Melford Performance
The pianist, composer, bandleader and educator Myra Melford - whom the New Yorker called "a stalwart of the new-jazz movement" - has spent the last three decades making brilliant original music that is equally challenging and engaging.

8:30 p.m: Orrin Evans Performance
During his kaleidoscopic quarter-century as a professional jazz musician, pianist Orrin Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who pushes the envelope in all directions through a style that postulates an environment of "structured freedom" that instigates the personnel to push the envelope in all his multifarious leader and collaborative projects.

Date: April 21 - 22, 2023

Location:

Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill, Suite 222
Brattleboro, VT 05301

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