Performers in alphabetical order:
Emma Burge, violin
Cassio Vianna, piano (jazz)
Mark Hilliard Wilson, classical guitar
Are you interested to learn how different genres of music influence each other? Can you recognize Chopin's melody in the bossa nova hit “How Insensitive” performed by Frank Sinatra and Sting? Are you curious to hear jazz valiations on the themes of folk songs?
Join us for this listen-and-guess performance of works by George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Myroslav Skoryk among others. The program includes jazz standards, works of pre-jazz era composers with a huge impact on jazz genre, classical music influenced by jazz, and our own variations on the themes of Ukrainian and Polish folk songs. Together in one concert we will explore different dialects of the unifiying language of music that brings together cultures and people.
EMMA BURGE
Violinist Emma Burge is an avid supporter of contemporary and new music, seeking to combine her classical training with improvisation. Emma is a founder of the new music ensemble Alinéa, formed at the New England Conservatory. She has premiered thirty new chamber works in the past two years, including Arturo O’Farril’s Tiny Little Walls. She also recently recorded with artist Heather Maloney on her newest album, Soil in the Sky. In Boston, Emma was a member of the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, Fermata, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Coda Ensemble.
CASSIO VIANNA
Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Vianna is a pianist, music educator, and an award-winning composer. He has been featured as a lecturer, adjudicator, and performer at festivals and conferences across the U.S., Latin America, and in China; his compositions and arrangements for jazz ensemble have received national recognition, including awards from the National Band Association, Jazz Education Network, Ithaca College Jazz Composition Competition, and the International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers (ISJAC). Dr. Vianna holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master of Music degree from Western Oregon University, and a Doctor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado. His most recent album, Infância(Cassio Vianna Jazz Orchestra, 2017), features his recent original compositions for jazz big band.
MARK HILLIARD WILSON
Mark Hilliard Wilson has an engaging approach to teaching and programing concerts that draws from the deep well of history and a desire to relate contemporary interests to universal themes. Born in Palo Alto, California in 1965 his childhood was spent moving every two years from Minnesota to Holland, to Washington DC to Payette, Idaho before his parents finally found their slice of heaven in Boise, Idaho. Mark continued to travel to Bellingham, Rochester and visit other countries before finding his base in Seattle in 1995. He founded the Seattle Guitar Orchestra in 2000 and became the cathedral guitarist at St. James Cathedral in Seattle 2006. He has taught at Whatcom Community College, Bellevue College, the Rosewood Guitar and is currently at the Holy Names Academy, his compositions are published by Seconda Prattica and performed widely. Recently Wilson premiered a concerto written for him by the Ukrainian composer Oleg Boyko. Wilson will be directing Guitar ensembles in the premier of a work he commissioned from Boyko at the 2023 Northwest Guitar Festival in Bellingham, Wa. 2023 will see the release of The Music of Taiwo Adegoke, Changing the canon of the classical guitar with music from Nigeria. Music for Seattle Guitar Orchestra and cello and classical guitar featuring cellist Abbie Eads. You can find these on all platforms and videos too on Mark’s Patreon site.
More Info - https://pnwkobzar.org/home/blog/7167949/kobzardom-in-ukraine
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