Texas Performing Arts 2016/17 Campus and Community Seat Performances

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2016/17 S.E.A.T. Performances

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2016/17 Calendar S.E.A.T. Performances

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Texas Performing Arts- S.E.A.T. Tickets • Review the list of performances available and consider the ways you can use them to complement your curriculum.

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Roomful of Teeth and Mozart Requiem Undead

Sep 16

BCH

Kronos Quartet

Sep 20

MCT

Kronos Quartet with Rhiannon Giddens

Sep 23

MCT

Grupo Corpo

Oct 6

BCH

Ensemble Basiani

Nov 4

MCT

Love and Duty A Celebration of the Music of Brahms

Nov 9 & 11

MCT

Spectrum Dance Theater + Donald Byrd Rambunctious

Nov 17 & 18

MCT

National Theatre of Scotland Let The Right One In

Jan 18–29

MCT

DeJohnette - Coltrane - Garrison

Feb 3

MCT

Malpaso Dance Company

Feb 9

BCH

The University of Texas Wind Ensemble

Mar 5

BCH

The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert

Mar 8 & 9

MCT

Aquila Theatre The Trojan War: Our Warrior Chorus

Mar 22 & 23

MCT

Black Grace

Mar 29

BCH

Mnozil Brass

Apr 7

BCH

The University of Texas Jazz Orchestra with Cyrus Chestnut

Apr 8

BRH

BCH Bass Concert Hall

MCT McCullough Theatre

BRH Bates Recital Hall

The Essential Series

Artistic Directors Peter Stopschinski Graham Reynolds Brent Baldwin Featuring Convergence Vocal Ensemble Music by Petra Haden Glenn Kotche Kate Moore Adrian Quesada Graham Reynolds Todd Reynolds Caroline Shaw Justin Sherburn DJ Spooky Peter Stopschinski

“From the diversity and geographic range of the composers to the breadth and depth of performers to the ginormous attendance, the whole thing stood as an example of what you should do if you’re trying to reach a wider crowd.”

—A ndr e w S ig l er , N ew M us ic B ox

Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old.

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Roomful of Teeth new music for new voices and

Texas Choral Consort and Orchestra Brent Baldwin, Conductor

Mozart Requiem Undead

Conceived and created by Golden Hornet project with Texas Choral Consort — Sep 16 Bass concert hall

Presented in partnership with Butler School of Music, Fusebox Festival, and KMFA-FM

8 pm

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This vocal-infused double bill features Grammy Award®-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth and an encore performance of Mozart Requiem Undead performed by the Texas Choral Consort and Orchestra along with Austin-based vocal ensemble Convergence.

Roomful of Teeth is dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice.

Formed in 2009, The New York Times calls the eight-voice ensemble “sensually stunning.”

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Austin, Classical, Grammy Award®Winner, Innovative Vocals, Orchestra, Vocal Ensemble

In 2014, TPA and partners Golden Hornet Project and Fusebox Festival presented Mozart Requiem Undead to open the Fusebox Festival at the French Legation Museum. Ten unique composers were each commissioned to rework a movement of Mozart’s Requiem Mass. The only catch is that the composers had to keep the vocal parts as originally written by Mozart.

“Roomful of Teeth is making some of the most rigorously venturesome and thrillingly inventive music being made by any ensemble, vocal or instrumental, today.” —The Nation

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“The ensemble has revolutionized the approach to string quartet repertory.”

—T h e New Yo r k T im es

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texas premiere

Kronos quartet Rhiannon giddens

*Rhiannon Giddens will ONLY accompany Kronos Quartet for the Sep 23 performance.

With special guest

— Sep 20 & 23* McCullough theatre

Presented in partnership with College of Fine Arts Visiting Artists Chair and KMFA-FM

8 pm

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This program is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Artists-in-Residence, Contemporary Classical, Grammy Award®Winner, Returning Artist, String Quartet

Kronos Quartet make their TPA return with a week-long campus residency performing two distinct programs over two evenings, including a featured guest performance and newly-composed work by Rhiannon Giddens, best known as the lead singer, violinist, banjo player, and a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops!

For more than 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential groups of our time.

“Rhiannon Giddens indisputably stole the show with the fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues. Giddens brought the star-studded audience to its feet.” —The New York Times

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The Essential Series

“Grupo Corpo’s dancers are justly celebrated for their virtuosity, and when 22 of them are moving in rippling, flickering, high-kicking unison, the audience are guaranteed a physical thrill.”

—The Guar d ian

The director/lighting designer, the choreographer, and the technical director are brothers!

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Photo by José Luiz Pederneiras

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and KUT-FM

Grupo corpo — Oct 6 Bass concert hall 8 pm

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This performance is supported in part by the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+

With its seductive movement, adventurous music, vibrant costuming, sets, and lighting, Grupo Corpo reflects the diversity and rich color of Brazil. This world-renowned dance company brings its incomparable mix of ballet and contemporary AfroBrazilian movement back to the Bass Concert Hall stage with new works by Rodrigo Pederneiras.

Founded in 1975, Grupo Corpo (literally “Body Group”) and their work are a true melting pot of cultural and artistic influences. Their captivating style grafts the flexibility of modern dance and rhythmic complexity of Afro-Brazilian dance onto ballet, captivating audiences with stunningly sexy physicality, dynamic ability, and rich visual finesse.

TAGS Brazil, Contemporary, Dance, International, Returning Artist

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“…it was the male Ensemble Basiani from the Republic of Georgia…who stole the main show at Tully against strong competition.”

—The N ew York Tim e s

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“Basiani” is also the name of a region in Southwest Georgia in what is now modern-day Turkey.

Ensemble Basiani — Nov 4 McCullough theatre

Presented in partnership with Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

7 pm

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Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+

Ensemble Basiani provides a unique opportunity to hear masterworks from a noble choral tradition presented by the artists who know them best. Created in 2000 under the blessing of the Patriarch of Georgia, Ensemble Basiani protects and performs the rich heritage of Georgian folk song and chant by researching and reviving music from past recordings, studying songs directly with famous singers, and working extensively with world-renowned ethnomusicologists.

In recent years, the group has received major international acclaim, scoring a singular triumph at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival (2010), where Basiani performed Georgian traditional polyphony along with masterpieces by J.S. Bach.

TAGS Folk Music, Georgia (Europe), Traditional, Vocal Ensemble, World Music

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“Our visiting guest artists’ impact on the Miró Quartet has been profound, they have shaped a lot of the way we think and play as artists. Each one of them breathes new life into our group every time we get to step onstage together and we hope our BSOM students and colleagues will be equally inspired.”

—M irÓ Quartet

Listen to an original, historical 1889 Edison wax cylinder recording of Johannes Brahms playing piano: bit.ly/ladtpa16

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Love and Duty A Celebration of the Music of Brahms Featuring

MirÓ Quartet With special guests

Presented in partnership with College of Fine Arts Visiting Artists Chair, Butler School of Music, and KMFA-FM

Martin Beaver, violin · Clive Greensmith, cell0 David Shifrin, clarinet · Anton Nel, piano David Small, baritone · Kelly Kuo, piano — Nov 9 & 11 McCullough Theatre 8 pm

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Love and Duty marks the launch of a semester-long celebration of the music of Johannes Brahms, curated by Miró Quartet. In addition to the programs in McCullough Theatre, the project features additional chamber music concerts

by Butler School of Music faculty and students, plus a major string quartet seminar. Much of Brahms’ inner life revolved around the tension between his love for Clara Schumann and his duty to Robert Schumann and his family after Robert’s death. Passion and restraint, and freedom and discipline were emotional polarities in constant conflict in his personal life, clearly dramatized in his chamber music.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Chamber, Classical, UT Faculty

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The Essential Series

“Spectrum…showed us again how contemporary dance, especially when paired with great live music, can be one of the most exciting of art forms.”

—The Seatt le Tim e s

The company’s choreographer, Donald Byrd, procured a Tony Award® nomination for his work on The Color Purple and a Bessie Award for The Minstrel Show.

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World premiere

Spectrum Dance Theater + Donald Byrd Rambunctious: A Festival of American Composers and Dance With

The Aeolus Quartet — Nov 17 & 18 McCullough theatre 8 pm

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and KMFA-FM

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This program is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Adventurous, American String Quartet, Contemporary, Dance, Returning Artist, Seattle

Under the artistic leadership of Donald Byrd, Spectrum Dance Theater has become the preeminent modern dance company of the Pacific Northwest. Byrd’s body of work is varied and impressive, spanning more than four decades pushing the boundaries of movement and message.

Last season Byrd brought his racially charged piece The Minstrel Show Revisited to McCullough Theatre. This season Spectrum returns to showcase its boundary-pushing style with selections from its major work Rambunctious, set to American string quartet repertoire performed live by the New York-based Aeolus Quartet, who spent two years as the Butler School of Music’s (BSOM) first graduate string-quartet-in-residence.

The program will feature the world premiere of a newly-commissioned quartet by BSOM composer Yevgeniy Sharlat.

“The Aeolus Quartet is a powerful and thoughtful group of young musicians who are plotting an ascending course...” —Luke Quinton, Austin American-Statesman

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“Extraordinarily imaginative… the play contains one of the single scariest moments ever seen onstage.

Yet at its heart, Let The Right One In is a stirring love story.”

—Theatermania

In addition to conventional theatres, the National Theatre of Scotland has performed in airports, schools, tower blocks, community halls, ferries, and forests.

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National Theatre of Scotland

with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd and Bill Kenwright present

Let the Right One In A stage adaptation by Jack Thorne Based on the novel and film by John Ajvide Lindqvist Directed by John Tiffany — Jan 18–29 McCullough theatre

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and KLRU-TV

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This performance is supported in part by the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Production.

An age guide of 15+ is suggested for this production.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Drama, Returning Artists, Scotland, Theatre, Vampire

“I’m not that. I live on blood. But I am not…that…Can I come in?”

Oskar is a lonely bullied teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town. Eli is a girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two quickly become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time...

As their friendship deepens, a series of sinister killings shocks the neighborhood.

A must-see major production, Let The Right One In is a truly rare piece of theatre which explores how far people will go for revenge, for hate, and ultimately for love.

Tony® and Olivier Award®-winning director John Tiffany (Black Watch, Once) heads up a world-class creative team including Olivier Award®-winning associate director Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, Beautiful Burnout, American Idiot).

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The Essential Series

“Jack DeJohnette is generally regarded as one of the finest living jazz drummers, a limber thinker and a technical dynamo, one who challenges tradition by pushing outward while digging in.”

— L o s Ang e le s T i m e s

At age five, Jack performed the kazoo on stage with T-Bone Walker at the Persian jazz club in Chicago.

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dejohnette coltrane garrison Presented in partnership with Butler School of Music and KUTX’s Sunday Morning Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg

Jack DeJohnette, drums Ravi Coltrane, sax Matthew Garrison, bass — Feb 3 McCullough theatre 8 pm

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In a career that spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most iconic figures in modern jazz, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and Grammy Award®-winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the genre. His creative associations include John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, and many more. Joining DeJohnette for this evening of improvisation and original compositions are saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (son of John Coltrane) and bassist Matthew Garrison.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Grammy Award®Winner, Jazz, Legend

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“…a non-stop barrage of fluid movement, supported by admirable technique and an easy musicality.”

— NOW M ag az in e

When Malpaso was founded, friends warned the founders that the dance company would be a mal paso, or misstep.

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Photo by Cherylynn Tsushima

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), and KUT-FM

Malpaso Dance Company Osnel Delgado, Artistic Director — Feb 9 Bass Concert Hall 8 pm

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The presentation of Malpaso

From Havana, Cuba, Malpaso brings Cuban contemporary dance into the 21st Century by collaborating with top international choreographers and nurturing new voices in Cuban choreography. Founded in 2012

by Osnel Delgado, Dailedys Carrazana, and Fernando Saéz, the company of 10 dancers express the passion and uncertainties that define Cuban life and are embodied in the country’s rich dance tradition.

Dance Company was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Contemporary, Cuba, Dance

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“The skilled and enthusiastic playing of the young performers leaps off the disc…they make a glorious noise.”

—T h e New Yo r k T im es

Graduates of the Wind Ensemble hold major positions in each of the Washington D.C.-based military bands and international major symphony orchestras, in addition to those serving as noted educators and conductors throughout the world.

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World premiere

The University of Texas wind ensemble Jerry Junkin, conductor

Presented in partnership with College of Fine Arts Visiting Artists Chair, Butler School of Music, and KMFA-FM

Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2 — Mar 5 Bass Concert Hall 7 pm

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The University of Texas Wind Ensemble performs the world premiere of renowned composer Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2.

Adam Schoenberg has quickly become one of the best known and most frequently performed American composers of his generation. Full of “mystery and sensuality” (The New York Times), Schoenberg’s music embraces both warm tonality and gentle chromaticism and has been heralded as “open, bold, and optimistic” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Award-Winning, Band, UT Students, Wind Ensemble

Conducted by Jerry F. Junkin, The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has firmly established itself as one of America’s elite wind bands. Active in the area of commissioning new music, the group has premiered performances of works by composers like John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher.

“My music comes straight from the heart—striving to be beautiful and inspiring, and simultaneously challenging and rewarding.” —Adam Schoenberg

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“Extraordinary!...A bracing blend of silliness and sophistication. It’s comic, touching and a visual knockout.”

—R olling Stone

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2003 Les Armateurs, Production Champion, Vivi Film, France 3 Cinéma, RGP Films and Sylvain Chomet. All Rights Reserved.

Animator Sylvain Chomet began his career creating comic strips.

The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert featuring

Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville with composer Benoit Charest — mar 8 & 9 McCullough theatre 8 pm

Presented in partnership with KLRU-TV

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Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+

Enjoy an evening on the exciting streets of 1920s Paris and Le Jazz Hot with a screening of this much beloved animated film as composer Benoît Charest leads the eightpiece Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville in a live performance of his original score for the film, including the Oscar®-nominated tune “Belleville Rendez-vous.”

Kidnapped by mysterious, square-shouldered henchmen, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teeming metropolis of Belleville. His near-sighted grandmother and faithful dog follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas. The motley sleuths follow the clues to an underground speakeasy, where they entertain the crowd. The chase is on!

TAGS Academy Award®Nominee, Animated Film, France

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Aquila Theatre is the permanent companyin-residence at the Center for Ancient Studies at New York University.

“...a classically trained, modernly hip troupe…”

—The N ew York Tim e s

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Photo by Spc. Luke Thornberry, U.S. Army

Aquila Theatre The Trojan War: Our Warrior Chorus — mar 22 & 23 McCullough theatre 7 pm

Presented in partnership with Department of Classics and The Texas Tribune

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Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Public Programming, Reinterpreted Classical Theater, Veterans

Known for creating bold reinterpretations of classical plays for contemporary audiences, British-American Aquila Theatre has teamed up with United States combat veterans/actors of the Warrior Chorus for this unique theatrical experience where the classic myths of ancient Greece and Rome are set against the compelling narratives of modern war.

The Trojan War: Our Warrior Chorus uses epic moments from Homer’s Iliad and scenes from other Greek drama and poetry to propel a thrilling chronicle of men and women at war, told by Aquila Theatre alongside members of the Warrior Chorus, created by a national program that brings together men and women who served in the United States military and trains them in the performing arts and humanities. The Austin performance follows a ten-week Warrior Chorus training program with veterans at The University of Texas in the fall of 2016.

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“‘Mighty impressive’ would be among the first things to say about this collage of excerpts from the work of the Samoan choreographer Neil Ieremia. Next would come words like dynamic, layered and propulsive.”

—The List, Ed i n burgh , 2 014

The Samoan indigenous storytelling tradition of slap dancing incorporates speaking, singing, and slapping bodies.

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Black grace

Neil Ieremia, Choreographer — mar 29 Bass concert hall 8 pm

Presented in partnership with Texas Theatre and Dance and KUT-FM

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New Zealand’s leading contemporary dance company returns to Bass Concert Hall with an all-new program!

Under the direction of choreographer Neil Ieremia for over two decades, Black Grace performs with distinct dynamism sparked

by Pacific Island and Māori heritage. Their work is highly physical, rich in the storytelling traditions of the South Pacific and expressed with raw finesse, unique beauty, and power. Mr. Ieremia draws from his Samoan and New Zealand roots to create innovative dance works that reach across social, cultural, and generational barriers.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Contemporary, Dance, International, New Zealand, Returning Artist

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“Mnozil Brass is one of the funniest, and most creative, chamber groups on the planet.”

— C lass i cal i t e

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Check out Mnozil Brass performing “Bohemian Rhapsody:” bit.ly/mbtpa16

Mnozil brass — Apr 7 Bass concert hall

Presented in partnership with Butler School of Music Brass Studio and KMFA-FM

8 pm

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Seamlessly blending technical virtuosity and comedic brilliance, Mnozil Brass has become an international sensation. With over 130 performances a year, the group has sold out houses worldwide. Austria’s Mnozil Brass are often likened to Monty Python, combining offbeat humor, physical comedy, and serious chops for an evening of original compositions, classical favorites, jazz standards, and popular hits. It’s no wonder that Mnozil Brass have garnered millions of YouTube views and their fans travel countless miles to hear them play.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Austria, Brass Septet, Comedy

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Cyrus plays piano at his local Brooklyn church every chance he gets.

“Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is one of jazz’s most convincing anachronisms. His brand of crisp articulation and blues-inflected harmony evokes another era. What makes his music fly is a complete security in his style, and that sense of untroubled self-assurance.”

—The N ew York Tim e s

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The University of Texas Jazz Orchestra Jeff Hellmer, director With special guest

Presented in partnership with Butler School of Music and KUTX’s Sunday Morning Jazz with Jay Trachtenberg

Cyrus Chestnut, piano — Apr 8 Bates recital hall 7:30 pm

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Hot on the heels of his 2015 McCullough Theatre performance with Turtle Island String Quartet, jazz pianist extraordinaire Cyrus Chestnut joins the UT Jazz Orchestra as part of the Butler School of Music’s annual Longhorn Jazz Festival.

Known for his improvisational skills and unique bop style, Cyrus Chestnut credits his abilities to his formative years when he played in church. Throughout his career, Chestnut has worked with an array of artists, including Joe Lovano, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Kathleen Battle, Bette Midler, and Isaac Hayes.

Tickets Full Price: $40 Subscriber Price: $25+ TAGS Jazz, Legend, Piano, Returning Artist, UT Students

Directed by Professor Jeff Hellmer, the UT Jazz Orchestra is the Butler School of Music’s premiere jazz ensemble. The Jazz Orchestra has performed with such luminaries as Michael Brecker, Phil Woods, Bob Brookmeyer, Conrad Herwig, John Clayton, Maria Schneider, Stefon Harris, and Joshua Redman in recent years. The ensemble’s eclectic repertoire features original compositions by its members.

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2) Your top (3) performances and number of tickets you will need, including teacher(s).

3) How you will use the performance experience in relation to your teaching situation.

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