Juilliard Jazz Orchestra Performs the Music of Chick Corea on Wednesday, February 26, 2020

NEW YORK –– The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra will perform the music of Grammy-winning jazz pianist, composer, and Juilliard alumnus Chick Corea on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Grammy-nominated saxophonist Tim Armacost is the guest conductor.

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra includes Colin Walters and Zoe Obadia, alto saxophone; Boyce Griffith and Birsa Chatterjee, tenor saxophones; JarienJames Jamanila, baritone saxophone; Summer Camargo, Giveton Gelin, Anthony Hervey, and Jonah Moss, trumpets; Jacob Melsha, Alba Pujals-Roigé, and Jeffery Miller, trombones; Olivia Chindamo, vocals; Tiffany Wong, harp; Sean Mason, piano; Gabe Rupe and Corentin Le Hir, bass; and Cameron MacIntosh and Petros Anagnostakos, drums.  

The orchestra will perform Armando’s Rhumba (arr. by Carlos Henriquez), Crystal Silence (arr. by Marcus Printup), Humpty Dumpty (arr. by Wynton Marsalis), Matrix (arr. by Vincent Gardner), Straight Up and Down (arr. by Sherman Irby), Windows (arr. by Ted Nash), and You’re Everything (arr. by Victor Goines).

A DownBeat magazine hall of famer and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master, 23-time Grammy winner and keyboard virtuoso, Chick Corea, has had five decades of unparalleled creativity and artistic output. He is the fourth most-nominated artist in the history of the Grammys, with 65 nominations. He has also earned three Latin Grammy awards, the most of any artist in the best instrumental album category.

About Tim Armacost
Grammy-nominated saxophonist Tim Armacost was born in Los Angeles, but came of age as a musician in Tokyo, New Delhi, and Amsterdam, where he burnished his reputation as an upcoming talent with a big tenor sound and an impeccable rhythmic sense. He tours regularly around the world both as a sideman and a leader. He has worked with a number of jazz greats, including Al Foster, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Barron, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, Victor Lewis, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Peter Erskine, Ray Drummond, Roy Hargrove, Don Friedman, and Randy Brecker. He has recorded 14 albums as a leader, performed on more than 60 as a sideman and composed for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He is a widely respected educator, teaching at the Jamey Aebersold and Stanford Summer Jazz Workshops, and Queens College as well as being a clinician at universities throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe. In addition to his own groups, Armacost co-leads the New York Standards Quartet and the Brooklyn Big Band, for which he composes and arranges. His most recent recording is Time Being, featuring Jeff “Tain” Watts and Bob Hurst.

About Juilliard Jazz
Juilliard Jazz offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees and the Artist Diploma. The curriculum combines classroom, private studio, and performance ensemble courses with substantial interactions with jazz masters and multiple performance opportunities in diverse venues around the city and the world. The repertoire studied covers the entire jazz continuum, highlights its American vernacular roots, and emphasizes the social and cultural vitality of the music. The program engages students in the global jazz scene, and they have recently performed at festivals in Amsterdam, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, and the Cayman Islands, and in clubs in China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Switzerland.

Recent alumni of the program include saxophonists Braxton Cook, Jon Irabagon, Julian Lee, Alexa Tarantino, and Immanuel Wilkins; trumpeters Etienne Charles, Brandon Lee, Riley Mulherkar, and Jumaane Smith; trombonists Chris Crenshaw, Michael Dease, Jennifer Krupa and Ryan Keberle; pianists Jon Batiste, Kris Bowers, Aaron Diehl and Mathis Picard; guitarists Lage Lund and Gabe Schnider, bassists Russell Hall, Yasushi Nakamura, Endea Owens, and Ben Williams; and drummers Bryan Carter, Francesco Ciniglio, Charles Goold, and Joe Saylor.

Program Listing:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 7:30pm, Peter Jay Sharp Theater
The Music of Chick Corea
Juilliard Jazz Orchestra
Tim Armacost, Conductor

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Timothy Armacost, performs the music of Grammy-winning jazz pianist, composer, and Juilliard alumnus Chick Corea.

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students with a valid ID) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

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