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Tuesday

MAR 22 7:30 pm

Christian Tamburr

vibraphone & piano

Just Friends Pavilion Jazz Series

Sponsored by

Steve & Chris

EDMONDS

We are pleased to partner with the Lied Center of Kansas to present the Just Friends Jazz Series.

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Selections will be announced from the stage.

There will be no intermission.

Christian Tamburr, vibraphone Christian Tamburr is an internationally touring vibraphonist, pianist and lecturer.

Downbeat Magazine recognized him with the Outstanding Solo Jazz Performer award and the Critics Choice Top Rising Star award on vibraphone. He currently leads the critically acclaimed Christian Tamburr Quartet around the world with recent sold out performances. In 2014, he was awarded a two year Artist in Residency at Florida Institute of Technology where he presents frequent concerts, outreach performances to local schools and speaks on leadership and entrepreneurialism.

Tamburr is the CEO and founder of Sonic Leadership, a company delivering musically inspired presentations on leadership and team training to corporations globally with the use of his live quartet. He is now touring around the world as a featured artist on behalf of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Tamburr has performed on vibraphone as special guest with pianist Dave Brubeck, as a solo percussionist with Michael Feinstein. He has performed private concerts for NBA basketball legend Michael Jordan, and was hired to entertain at the highly publicized surprise birthday party for actress Julia Roberts. Tamburr’s first album, Move, was released as a part of a Starbucks Gift Set. From 2006 till 2008, Christian toured as pianist and musical director for Julio Iglesias. He joined Cirque du Soleil in 2009 as an assistant composer and musical director for a new show in Macau, China.

In 2014, Tamburr performed as a featured musician and the musical director of Rose Rabbit Lie at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.

Tamburr first started performing jazz at the age of 14, now 35, he has had the opportunity to tour and perform with many of the jazz legends at some of the most prestigious venues around the world including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, Ravinia, Pizza Express Dean Street in London, Olympia Theater in Paris and many more. He has also performed at The North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam, The Atlanta Jazz Festival, The San Jose Jazz Festival, The Chandler Jazz Festival and the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. Since 2006, Tamburr has produced The Jazz at Sea music spotlight, performing and featuring some of the top names in jazz onboard Regent and Oceania Cruises.

Tamburr works as a producer, arranger, and composer in many genres. His music can be heard on TV, full-length motion pictures, and on stage productions around the world. Famed magicians Penn and Teller hired him as a consultant to write and teach them music for their stage show in Las Vegas. As an educator and lecturer, Tamburr travels to high schools and colleges presenting workshops and master classes on performance, composition, arranging and music business.

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The Christian Tamburr Quartet, Trio, and Duo project recordings include: Move, Arrivals, Traveling South, Conversations, Places and Voyage, People Talk was released in 2015 under Tamburr World Wide Productions. Tamburr is endorsed by Blackwing Pencils and www.pencils.com, Pro-Mark Sticks and Mallets, and plays exclusively Musser Vibraphones. www.christiantamburr.com / www.sonicleadership.com

Addison Frei, piano Addison Frei (“Fry”) infuses energy and innovative artistry into every one of his musical adventures. This New York City-based artist consistently captivates audiences with his musical maturity and honest expression. Ever since he began playing piano professionally at age ten in local restaurants around Lawrence, Kansas, Frei has garnered accolades far beyond his years. Frei took first prize in the 2012 Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition and was noted as the youngest competitor. Earlier that year, he was a finalist in the Phillips Jazz Piano Competition in Pensacola, Florida. Recognized as a 2013 Yamaha Young Performing Artist, Frei also performed in the Detroit Jazz Festival’s Barry Harris Piano Competition and received second prize in the inaugural year of the American Jazz Pianist Competition in Melbourne, Florida.

He has worked alongside Manhattan Transfer co-founder Janis Siegel, beginning 2015 with a Midwest tour and date at the Kitano in New York. Frei’s acclaimed compositions have earned him invitations to Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, a two-week residency program held at the Kennedy Center under the direction of Jason Moran, and Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute where he studied with Rufus Reid and David Baker. Frei is also a two-time recipient of the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award. Those pieces can be found alongside other new compositions and imaginative arrangements on Intentions, Frei’s debut album as a solo leader.

A 2014, summa cum laude graduate of the prestigious University of North Texas Jazz Studies program, Frei traveled with the six-time Grammy nominated UNT One O’Clock Lab Band to headline the Next Generation Jazz Festival in Monterey, California. While at UNT he had the opportunity to perform with prominent jazz artists including Christian McBride, Mike Stern, and Peter Erskine. Frei also gave a duo piano recital alongside his mentor, Stefan Karlsson, featuring the music of Richie Beirach. In 2013, the faculty honored Frei with the Outstanding Undergraduate Jazz Studies Student Award.

In addition to performing and recording, Frei is an established clinician and educator, delivering invited lectures/performances at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, the University of Central Florida, the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Baker University, and Lynn Seaton’s Bass Workshop at UNT. Frei was a featured artist at the 2014 Jazz Education Network (JEN) conference in Dallas. He is also an established classical pianist, studying most recently under Arsentiy Kharitonov and Julie Rivers, and was a finalist in the 2011 Texas Music Teachers Association’s Young Artist Competition.