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| Helen Sung Presentation Oct 24 Healdsburg Jazz Take a trip through musical time and space with jazz pianist/composer and 2021 Guggenheim Fellow Helen Sung as she shares selections from her new album Quartet+ and shines a spotlight on women's artistry. Featuring a double quartet, Helen's Jazz Quartet with special guest Harlem Quartet (a classical string quartet), the album's music is all composed by women, featuring Helen's new arrangements of works by landmark artists including Mary Lou Williams, Geri Allen, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Carla Bley, Marian McPartland, as well as her own original compositions. Quartet+ explores points of tension and connection between the jazz and classical traditions that have shaped Helen's artistic life, incorporating a broad range of musical techniques and aesthetics. Join us via Zoom on Sunday, October 24, 5 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Time. About Helen Sung: Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a newly named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. A native of Houston, Texas, and graduate of its High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), she eschewed her classical piano upbringing after a chance encounter with jazz during undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Helen went on to graduate from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) at the New England Conservatory of Music and win the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition. Her albums have topped the jazz radio charts, and her newest release Quartet+ (Sunnyside Records) is a "double quartet" recording of music composed by women, performed by her quartet together with special guest Harlem Quartet. Helen and her band have performed at major American festivals and venues including Newport, Monterey, SFJAZZ, Disney Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Internationally, her "NuGenerations" Project toured southern Africa as a U.S. State Department Jazz Ambassador, and recent engagements include debuts at the London Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Blue Note Beijing, and the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival. She has worked with such luminaries as the late Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis (who named her as one of his "Who's Got Next: Jazz Musicians to Watch!"), MacArthur Fellow Regina Carter, and Grammy-winning artists including Terri Lyne Carrington and Cecile McLorin Salvant. She currently performs with such fine ensembles as the Mingus Big Band and McLorin Salvant's Ogresse. Helen is a Steinway Artist, and has served on the jazz faculties at Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at Columbia's prestigious Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. Zoom Presentation Sunday, October 24, 5 pm-6:30 pm Pacific Time (8 pm-9:30 pm Eastern Time) write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |