JOEL MARTIN’S JAZZICAL QUARTET
December 11
@ 7:30pm premieres its latest CD, PERESTROIKA
Russian Classics Meet Jazz at the Chelsea Art Museum’s Celebration
of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg
Joel A.
Martin is an award-winning classical and jazz pianist who has
performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Baltimore
Symphony and Delaware Symphony, and the Emerson String Quartet.
He has also given numerous recitals in concert halls worldwide
including
Kennedy Center; Purchase College Performing Arts Center; Avery
Fisher Hall; Severance Hall; the Schomburg Library; the Phillips
Collection;
Kaukametsa Hall, Finland; and Opera Comique, Paris – in a
private concert for Francois Mitterand.
Martin was the youngest
competitor in the 1985 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
He is the recipient of the National Arts Club
of New York's Lebow Award; is a SONY Innovators Awards finalist
for music; and in 1992 Concert Artist Guild two-year Career Development
Fellowship. In 1995, Joel created and trademarked Jazzical, a celebration
of creative fusion and the explosive union of classical composition
and jazz innovation ignited with a fresh spirit all its own.
Jazzical has been the subject of feature articles and reviews
in The New York Times, Piano Today, Seconds Magazine, Jazz Times,
and Cadence Magazine. Jazzical with Joel Martin has also been featured
on BET (Black Entertainment Television), NBC-TV and PBS with performances
at the Guggenheim Museum, Lincoln Center, Fez, Birdland in New
York,
at Snug Harbor, and at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
with jazz clarinet legend Alvin Batiste as well as over 400 classical
and jazz radio stations nationwide.
Joel is touring, writing and arranging as Musical Director of
the Cab Calloway Orchestra, led by his grandson C. Calloway Brooks
and recently arranged classical and jazz music for international
operatic
superstar, Jessye Norman.
Upcoming projects for 2003-2004 include Jazzical commissions
for collaborations of the Westchester Oratorio Society and St.
Luke’s
Chamber Orchestra; and the The Springfield Symphony (MA) and the
Cab Calloway Orchestra" for 2004-2005 featuring the music of
Cab Calloway and Jazzical. On December 11, 2003 Joel will unveil
his 4th Jazzical CD entitled, "Jazzical: Perestroika" at
the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC as part of a celebration the 300th
Anniversary of St Petersburg, Russia.
www.jazzical.com
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