March 4, 2023
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
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JECOREY ARTHUR Rapper
INDIA CARNEY Vocalist
MALIA CIVETZ Vocalist
MARIO JOSE Vocalist
BRAYLON LACY Bassist
TARON LOCKETT Drummer
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 (1888)
DRAKE Various Works (2010-2020)
Movement I Started From the Bottom Back to Back
Headlines
Over My Dead Body
Over Worst Behavior
God’s Plan
5 AM in Toronto
Piano Cadenza
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STEVE HACKMAN Conductor & CreatorInterlude I
Controlla
Hold On, We’re Going Home
Movement II
Marvin’s Room
Energy
All Me
HYFR
Interlude II
In My Feelings
One Dance
Take Care
Movement IV
Nice For What
Find Your Love
Jumpman
Steve Hackman Conductor & Creator
A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and visionary producer, Steve Hackman is a daring voice leading the charge among a new generation of classical musicians intent on redefining the genre. Equally adept in classical and popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny — he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses those wide- ranging abilities to create innovative fusions that blur the lines between high and pop art. The result is evocative works that are both derivative yet wholly original. He synthesizes Brahms and Radiohead, Bartók and Björk, and Beethoven and Coldplay into epic orchestral tone poems; re-imagines Stravinsky and Shostakovich into original orchestral-electronic concept albums; and samples Verdi and Debussy and interpolates them into hip-hop tracks. His performances of these pieces have surprised and thrilled diverse sellout audiences across the country, including with the orchestras of San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Phoenix, Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Charlotte, Southwest Florida, Alabama, Colorado Music Festival, and the Boston Pops.
In Fall of 2021 Hackman composed the 60-minute ballet AT WORK in partnership with Jacob Jonas the Company, premiering the piece in consecutive weekends at Century City Park and the Water Gardens in Los Angeles. It was the culmination of a busy two years of composing: he composed five original scores for the global film initiative films.dance, teaming up with Hilary Hahn, Dave Koz, Voces 8, and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra in the process; his music was featured on the American Express campaign Stand For Small, alongside the voice of Lin-Manuel Miranda; and during the summer of 2021 he completed recording of a solo piano album.
Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work. He has collaborated frequently with Doja Cat, performing with her at the 2021 VMA’s in Brooklyn, following orchestrating and arranging strings for her performances at the Billboard Music Awards and iHeart Radio Music Awards. In December 2019, Hackman collaborated with Kanye West, the Sunday Service Choir and Access Opera in their production of the opera Mary. Hackman contributed as composer, conductor, and orchestrator. The opera had public performances at Art Basel in Miami and Lincoln Center in New York City.
Hackman serves as the conductor and curator of the BSO Fusion with the Baltimore Symphony, presenting multiple concerts per year of his fusion productions. He is Creative Director and Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony’s Uncharted Series, one of the most successful millennial-focused concert experiences in the country. Hackman has been instrumental in the development of this concert series since 2010. A recent highlight featured the blockbuster premiere of his newest fusion work The Resurrection Mixtape, a combination of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony and the music of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
In September 2019 Hackman recorded a seventy-piece orchestra of LA’s finest studio musicians at Eastwood Soundstage on the Warner Brothers lot for his original music project STEREO HIDEOUT. The results will be heard on the upcoming Stereo Hideout album The Revival.
In early 2019, Hackman debuted IGOR DAMN STRAVINSKY, an orchestral/hip-hop synthesis of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album DAMN. Earlier that year, Hackman premiered his choral re-imagination of Bob Dylan, a fifteen-song anthology entitled The Times They Are A-Changin’ with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. The piece was commissioned by six American choirs, with its orchestral premiere with the Nashville Symphony in January 2020.
In 2001 Hackman was the only outside student to be accepted to Otto-Werner Mueller’s conducting studio at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. He received an advanced diploma in conducting at Curtis, where he also studied counterpoint, composition and improvisation under his mentor Dr. Ford Lallerstedt. He subsequently studied conducting with David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. He received further training in orchestration from the Broadway orchestrator and composer William Brohn. His undergraduate degree is in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Gustavo Romero.
Hackman is active on social media under the handle @stevehackmanmusic.
Jecorey Arthur Rapper
Jecorey “1200” Arthur is an award-winning teacher, musician, and activist from Louisville, Kentucky. He is currently a music professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, an artist roster member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), and an endorsed artist with Salyers Percussion. Arthur has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Big Ears Festival, Forecastle Festival, and Jungfrau Erzählfestival; performed as a soloist with the Stereo Hideout Brooklyn Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus, and Oregon Symphony Orchestras; performed as the first hip hop artist with the Louisville Orchestra including world premieres of folk opera The Way Forth and rap opera The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, where he starred as his hometown hero; and composed music for theatre, film, television, radio, podcast, and studio albums. In 2021, Arthur was inaugurated as the youngest city councilman in the history of Louisville.
India Carney Vocalist
India Carney is a multi-talented solo artist with a wide-range of experience in the performing arts industry. While traveling throughout the country and abroad, India writes and performs original music, as well as collaborates with bands and other artists to produce live shows and recordings that introduce a mix of Classical, Pop, R&B and A Cappella music, and Theater. India is a versatile American singer, songwriter, arranger and actress. In addition to building a YouTube presence as the featured artist teaming up with music producers, India is best known for her passionate solo performances as an Artist on NBC’s Emmy awardwinning, The Voice -Season 8. India has performed with celebrity icons such as David Foster, Lady Gaga, Herbie Hancock, Meghan Trainor, Christina Aguilera, Jason Derulo, Mark Ronson.
India is a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts and multiaward YoungArts Silver Winner in Voice & Theater. She currently serves as a junior Board member of the Presidential Scholars Foundation and the Harlem Arts Festival in New York City. Despite India’s active performance schedule, her passion for music inspires her to help develop the next generation of talented singers. Since 2012, India has been instructing Los Angeles area students of varying ages on healthy vocal techniques through private lessons, in groups, and conducting masterclasses. In 2015, India began serving on committees for music organizations as an adjudicator at vocal competitions across the country. India was awarded the Music Impact Award by the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, The Maidie Norman Award by the UCLA Black Alumni Association and True Bruin Distinguished Senior Award from UCLA. India earned her B.A. in Music -Voice Performance along with the minor in Music Industry from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is an alumna of Manhattan School of Music (Precollege) and LaGuardia Arts High School (the “Fame” School) in New York City. India is committed to supporting the Arts and is moving forward with creating the India Carney Voice Scholarship Fund at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. India is honored to take part in Steven Hackman’s, “Tchaikovsky v. Drake”!
Malia Civetz Vocalist
Malia Civetz has performed as a vocal soloist on countless occasions across the United States and around Europe in Steve Hackman’s symphonic mashups. She began working with Steve Hackman in January 2015 performing in Beethoven v. Coldplay and continues to lend her voice to that piece and a growing list of symphonic fusions including Stravinsky’s Firebird Remix-Response, Tchaikovsky v. Drake, Skull and Bones, The Times They Are-A-Changin’, Bartok v. Bjork, and From Beethoven to Beyoncé.
Malia, a Los Angeles-based recording artist and songwriter, signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music after graduating from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music’s Popular Music Program. Post-college, she linked up with powerhouse songwriters, Ross Golan and JKash, signing to their newly created joint label. She initially made waves with her independent single ‘Champagne Clouds’ debuted by Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM morning show ‘On Air With Ryan Seacrest’. The song quickly earned 20 million-plus streams and made Taylor Swift’s ‘Favorite Songs’ playlists on both Apple Music and Spotify.
She moved on to sign a record deal with Warner Records making her major label debut in 2020 with her first EP, The Flip, featuring hit radio single ‘Broke Boy.’ Malia unveiled her second EP, Heels In Hand, featuring ‘Partied Out’ and fan-favorite ‘Sugar Daddy.’ Her work has amassed love from numerous publications and has landed spots in major film, tv, and commercial productions. Surpassing 85 million total streams as an artist, Malia continues to also write for a variety of artists across numerous genres.
Her musical accomplishments span well over a decade with early highlights that include performing as a ‘Star of Tomorrow’ at New York’s Apollo Theater at age 13, having the privilege to sing for President Obama at age 16 and performing in Barry Manilow’s show at the Paris Las Vegas at 17.
A San Francisco Bay Area native, Mario Jose is a seasoned singer-songwriter, powerhouse vocalist, and true entertainer.
Mario attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and was a part of the award-winning a cappella group Pitch Slapped. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a solo artist.
Mario has had the privilege to share the stage and studio with music icons including Pentatonix (opening for them on tour), Prince, Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor (New Orleans Jazz Fest 2017), John Legend (NBC’s Duets), Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey (of Earth, Wind & Fire), John Elefante (of Kansas), Jim Peterick (of Survivor), Bill Champlin (of Chicago), Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Ben E. King, Post Modern Jukebox and many more.
Mario is currently co-headling on the Heart, Hope & Love Tour across the US with Travis Atreo and The Filharmonic - tickets are available on mariojosemusic.com.
Braylon Lacy Bassist
Braylon Lacy can whirl warm tones on the upright and electric bass. His tone is so richly embedded with his family’s musical and gospel roots as well as jazz inspirations. Braylon has wowed the globe with an array of artist in all genres artist such as: Wynton Marsalis, Prince, Erykah Badu, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Israel Houghton, Kirk Whalum, Oleta Adams, N’Dambi and the late Wayman Tisdale.
Braylon began playing in the church and has been playing professionally for fifteen years. His formal training began with Dean Hill and continued in his high school years at BTWHSPVA Dallas’ Arts Magnet High School. Braylon further studied music atWeatherford College and the University of North Texas.
Braylon has been featured on numerous recordings including the Grammy award winning Hero by Kirk Franklin and Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun. Featured in Bass Player magazine, Braylon has several endorsements including: Aguliar Amplification, DR Strings and Fender guitars.
Braylon maintains a busy schedule of recording, teaching and touring nationally as well internationally.
Dallas native TaRon Lockett is a 2x Grammy Nominated drummer/ producer has worked with Snoop Dogg, Erykah Badu, Ceelo Green, Prince, Liv Warfield, Willie Nelson, Sheila E, and DJ DNice and currently tours with Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles.
