The Siskiyou Institute
2009 Spring Concert & Workshop Series
at the Old Siskiyou Barn
and introducing
The Siskyou Institute New Artist Series
at Paschal Winery
For reservations please call 541-488-3869 or email info@siskiyouinstitute.com
Receive a 10% discount by reserving and paying for any three events in advance.
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Mimi Fox Duo
Mimi Fox - Guitar Randy Halberstadt - Piano Friday, May 1, 2009 • 7:30 p.m. Old Siskiyou Barn in Ashland Tickets: $22, $20 for Siskiyou Institute Members, ($5 for students) The Siskiyou Institute brings back one of it's most popular artists, guitarist Mimi Fox. In this, her third Siskiyou Institute performance, she will be joined by Seattle based pianist Randy Halberstadt. Internationally renowned guitarist/composer/recording artist Mimi Fox has been named a winner in 6 consecutive Downbeat Magazine international critic's polls and has been recognized by writers and colleagues alike as one of the most eloquent jazz guitarists on today's scene. In one of many feature stories, Guitar Player Magazine hailed Mimi as "a prodigious talent who has not only mastered the traditional forms but has managed to reinvigorate them." Mimi has performed/recorded with some of jazz's most commanding players, including fellow guitarists Charlie Byrd, Stanley Jordan, Charlie Hunter, and Mundell Lowe, Grammy-nominated saxophonists Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez and Houston Person and the late Don Lanphere, vocalists Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany and Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), B3 organ masters Joey DeFrancesco, Barbara Denerlein and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and powerhouse drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. She has also performed outside of the jazz world with legends Stevie Wonder and John Sebastian and with Patty Larkin's Vanguard Records-produced La Guitara project. Mimi has released eight highly acclaimed albums as a leader, including her two most recent on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label. 2006's double CD, Perpetually Hip, received rave reviews from scores of publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, which called this project Fox's "Masterwork" and said: "The two discs stand as a definitive Fox statement. The first showcases her simmering interplay with a quartet featuring drum maestro Billy Hart, while the second captures her breathtaking solo style in an approach that is as harmonically resourceful as it is lyrically inventive." Fox had already established her credentials as a worthy successor to Joe Pass with the astonishing 2001 Origin Records solo album, Standards. In a glowing Cadence Magazine review, Jim Josselyn said: "to say Mimi Fox's touch, sound, sensitivity and understanding of the guitar as a solo vehicle of expression is masterful would be an understatement. This is simply some of the best guitar music I have heard." Pianist Randy Halberstadt has been a major figure on the Pacific Northwest jazz scene for many years. A multi-dimensional pianist, he is equally at home playing be-bop, Latin, down-home blues, straight-ahead swing, free and eclectic jazz. In addition to leading his own trio and producing his own recordings (Inner Voice, Clockwork, and Parallel Tracks), he has performed with Herb Ellis, Buddy de Franco, Nick Brignola, Terry Gibbs, Slide Hampton, Pete Christlieb, Bobby Shew, Joe LaBarbera, John Stowell, David Friesen, Don Lanphere, Jiggs Whigham, Roswell Rudd, Julian Priester, Mel Brown, and many others. He has also backed up many great vocalists including Sheila Jordan, Rebecca Parris, Kevin Mahogany, Marlena Shaw, Karrin Allyson, and Ernestine Anderson. Recently, He is the pianist for the esteemed Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and has performed repeatedly with the Seattle Symphony. Seating for this concert is limited and advance reservations are suggested. Reservations can be made by calling the Siskiyou Institute at 541-488-3869 or by emailing info@siskiyouinstitute.com Art of the Duo/Jazz Improvisation Workshop Guitarist Mimi Fox and pianist Randy Halberstadt will discuss and demonstrate aspects of the collaborative process as reflected in their duo. In addition to sound and improvisation, they will explore the listening, interaction, risk-taking and originality that go into creating an effective duo performance. They will also discuss their individual approaches to both of their instruments. As a devoted educator and clinician, Mimi Fox has taught master classes worldwide while serving as head of the guitar program at the Jazz School in Berkeley and Adjunct Professor at New York University. She has published several popular instructional books and interactive CD-Roms for Mel Bay Publications and True Fire. Randy Halberstadt is a full professor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Randy teaches jazz theory, vocal standards, and private lessons. He also serves on the faculties of the Blaine Jazz Festival in Blaine, Washington and the Centrum Jazz Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington (both in July). In 2001 Randy wrote a book called Metaphors For The Musician: Perspectives from a Jazz Pianist. Since its release it has garnered rave reviews from top professionals, readers, and the press alike. Intended for both instrumentalists and vocalists, it deals with almost all aspects of musicianship, including improvisation, theory, piano, and professional requirements. For reservations, please call 541-488-3869 or email info@siskiyouinstitute.com |
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New Artist Series
Dimitri Matheny & Friends Tribute to Art Farmer Wednesday, May 13, 2009 • 7:00 p.m. Paschal Winery in Talent Tickets: $12, $10 for Siskiyou Institute members ($5 for students) The Siskiyou Institute presents a very special evening with flugelhorn player/ composer/educator Dmitri Matheny. This performance will be a tribute to his mentor and teacher for ten years, the great Art Farmer. Dmitri has performed several times for the Siskiyou Institute at the Old Siskiyou Barn with pianist Darrell Grant. Dmitri will be in the Rogue Valley as an artist in residence as part of the S.I. Artists in the Schools Program where he will conduct clinics at a number of schools in the Rogue Valley. Celebrated for his warm romantic tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, Matheny was first introduced to jazz audiences in the 1980s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer, with whom he studied privately for ten years. Now hailed as "the first breakthrough flugelhornist since Chuck Mangione" (San Jose Mercury News), Dmitri Matheny has received numerous awards and honors, including selection as "Best New Artist" in the JAZZIZ Readers Poll and "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" in the Down Beat International Critics Poll. Although known primarily as a flugelhorn player, Dmitri Matheny is also a prolific composer and lyricist whose published compostions span the jazz, pop, symphonic, choral, chamber and world music genres. Matheny has received premieres and commissions from Meet the Composer, the Manhattan New Music Project, the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra and 20th Century Forum. Matheny's film scoring and soundtrack credits include the PBS documentary Mary, Paradox & Grace (1996), the industrial short film Greenhorn Creek (1997), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art production Voices & Images of California Art (1997), and the RKO Pictures feature film Shade (2003) a "modern noir" directed by Damian Nieman, starring Gabriel Byrne, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith, Thandie Newton, Sylvester Stallone and Stewart Townsend. Dmitri is also a dedicated music educator and arts management professional. He presents clinics, lectures and workshops at leading universities and conservatories and is a frequent presenter (by invitation) at major music industry conferences. He offers private lessons on an availability basis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Matheny has served on grant award evaluation panels for the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008, in their fifth season of participation with the San Francisco Symphony's Adventures in Music program, the Dmitri Matheny Group provided free concerts for more than 15,000 children in over 100 public schools. Since 1989, the DMG has staged more than 500 such concerts in the schools. Working in association with the SF Symphony, SFJAZZ, Young Audiences of the Bay Area, the Friends of Matheny Music, Bread & Roses, and other charitable organizations, Dmitri and his band are gratified to have introduced more than 45,000 Bay Area school children to jazz. Dmitri Matheny has held teaching faculty and nonprofit management positions with the Jazzschool (Berkeley, CA), Boston Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Monarch Records and Chabot Space and Science Center. Formerly the Director of Education and Director of Development for SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Jazz Organization, Matheny has also served as Assistant Education Director for the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Colony at Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and as Artist-In-Residence for the Young Musicians Program of the University of California, Berkeley. For more information on Dmitri Matheny and to hear listen to some of his music, please visit http://www.dmitrimatheny.com/?mpf=frame Seating for this concert is limited and advance reservations are suggested. Reservations can be made by calling the Siskiyou Institute at 541-488-3869 or by emailing info@siskiyouinstitute.com |
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Madeline Eastman, vocalist
and Randy Porter, Piano Friday, May 22, 2009 • 7:30 p.m. Old Siskiyou Barn in Ashland Tickets: $22, $20 for Siskiyou Institute Members, ($5 for students) Even before jazz vocalists sang their way back to the top of the heap in the 1990s, Madeline Eastman had established herself as a singular talent, capable of reshaping the art on her own terms in the new millennium. A thrilling live performer, Eastman takes her audiences on unpredictable musical journeys, embracing listeners in the radiant warmth of her personality, dazzling them with her vocal charm, breaking them up with her sharp wit, and inspiring silent awe with breathless readings of tender ballads. With the release of her sixth album, Can You Hear Me Now?, the daring and vivacious San Francisco singer not only secures the territory she has staked out as her own, but fearlessly explores new frontiers as well. Scaling uncharted pinnacles of hipness and sophistication, she further distinguishes herself as an original stylist without peer.“Eastman's great contribution,” says the Chicago Reader, “lies in the tough, contemporary edge she brings to her music. She sings for adults; she even makes you glad to be one.” Recognized in Down Beat Magazine's International Critics Poll as “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition,” Eastman has long been heralded for her vocal gifts, interpretive savvy, and irrepressible sense of adventure. Jazziz has noted her “easy, natural approach to lyrics” and her “exquisite appreciation of melodic complexity and impeccable presentation,” and Stereophile has offered a concise and powerful description of the figure she cuts on stage: “She's hitting from beginning to end, sizzling and snapping with electricity, sliding across bar lines, scatting choruses, slowing to a whisper, bending melody line to her will. She is IN CHARGE.” On The Speed of Life, Eastman's creative interpretations of jazz standards and bold forays into unconventional material dramatically illustrate what CD Review hailed as her “genius for discovering perfect vehicles for personal expression in improbable places.” "Everyone has something to say,” Eastman grants, “but it takes a lot of skill to put a bow on it and give it away. This album represents an arrival for me — the culmination of my years of musical exploration and devotion to the art form. It is, for me, the perfect musical alignment: the right combination of players, the right musical context and the right time in my life to send the message.” “I love the wild ride,” she says, “the meeting of the minds in an instant. I never know exactly what?s going to happen from moment to moment because, if you're open, it's up for grabs. If you've done your homework and you're playing with musicians of similar mind, it becomes that holy blend of know-how, experience and creativity.” “I think you have to give yourself away,” she continues, “be completely malleable and vulnerable to the music, a constant pendulum of commitment and abandonment. It's been a long journey, but I think I've found the balance.” With the mature poise of a seasoned veteran and the edgy enthusiasm of an upstart, Eastman stands at the forefront of contemporary jazz singers, updating the legacy of Billie Holiday, Betty Carter and Shirley Horn, and defining the vocal vanguard of the 21st century. Madeline will be joined by pianist Randy Porter for this performance. Randy has performed with many jazz greats, including Freddy Hubbard, Art Farmer, Benny Golson and Charles McPherson. Porter has toured with the Charles McPherson Quartet throughout the US and in China, Italy and Greece, also performing as McPherson's sideman at the Chicago and Detroit Jazz Festivals. In addition, the Charles McPherson Quartet has re-created the music from the classic recording Charlie Parker with Strings, performing with many orchestras nationwide. Seating for this concert is limited and advance reservations are suggested. Reservations can be made by calling the Siskiyou Institute at 541-488-3869 or by emailing info@siskiyouinstitute.com Saturday Workshop: The instrumentalists /vocalist relationship is a complicated one. Is your goal to actually “make music” with your fellow musicians? Who leads? Who follows? How do we get out of the “accompanist” rut and into the game of really making music? Randy and Madeline will help demystifying the art of interactive playing with an emphasis on FUN! Open to all musicians and vocalists. Participation will be encouraged. Madeline Eastman developed and heads the Vocal Department STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP, Stanford University, CA. She is the Artistic Director JAZZCAMP WEST, La Honda, CA and is an Artist in Residence for the BRUBECK INSTITUTE JAZZ COLONY, University of Pacific, CA She is also a Vocal Clinician for the MONTEREY JAZZ TRAVELING CLINICIAN PROGRAM and MONTEREY JAZZ SUMMER CAMP and Founder of the VOICESHOP RETREATS in Nevada and New York City. Randy Porter has adjudicated, taught master classes, and been a featured performer in college festivals, clinics, and summer workshops throughout the nation, including the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Port Townsend Jazz Workshop, Jazz Camp West, Reno Jazz Festival and others. Porter has taught jazz piano, arranging and improvisation classes at University of Nevada, Reno,96-98, University of Oregon 2000-2001, and jazz history at Lewis and Clark College 2003-2004. Porter is currently adjunct faculty at Lewis and Clark College. 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The Siskiyou Institute Presents
Pearl Django Benefit Fundraising Concert & Wine Tasting Wednesday, June 3, 2009 • 7:00 p.m. Paschal Winery in Talent Tickets: $25, $20 for Siskiyou Institute Members This event will benefit the Siskiyou Institute’s Artists In The Schools Program Entering their fifteenth year of performing Pearl Django continues to be one of America’s most respected and busiest Hot Club style groups. Though still strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, Pearl Django’s repertoire now includes many original compositions. Their music reaches out across the divides of taste to a wide variety of audiences. The band's fervent followers include Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli fans, guitar enthusiasts (and guitarists!), lovers of string music, including bluegrass devotees, who relish nimble, clean, intricate picking, "world music" fans drawn to French and Gypsy accents, plus jazz buffs and aficionados of the new swing music. Transcending simple categorization, Pearl Django packs in enthusiastic audiences at dancehalls and nightclubs, at folk music festivals and jazz festivals alike. The group’s inception was as a trio in Tacoma, Washington in 1994. The focus of Pearl Django was, and is, to incorporate the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli with American swing music. They quickly expanded to a quintet, adding a violinist and a third guitarist. An interview on NPR’s All Things Considered in 2001 brought the group to national attention. In June 2002, Pearl Django performed at the prestigious Festival Django Reinhardt in Samois sur Seine, just outside of Paris, France. As of 2007 Pearl Django is working as both a quartet and a quintet (with accordionist, David Lange) All of the members are contributing original compositions to the band’s expansive repertoire. They have released 9 CDs to date. Seating for this concert is limited and advance reservations are highly recommended. Reservations can be made by calling the Siskiyou Institute at 541-488-3869 or by emailing info@siskiyouinstitute.com |
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