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"Live Concert with Dual Identity"
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Lehman
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Event Date: Friday, November 12, 2004
Location: Slought Foundation
Free Exchange Series
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Mark Christman
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Please join us on Friday, November 12, 2004 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for a live concert with Dual Identity by Rudresh Mahanthappa and Steve Lehman.
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has worked with jazz luminaries including David Murray, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Samir Chatterjee, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Von Freeman, George Garzone, Tim Hagans, Fareed Haque, Vijay Iyer, Howard Levy, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Greg Osby, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Clark Terry. Rudresh has achieved international recognition at the JVC Jazz Festival Paris, Jazz D'Or, the Verona Jazz Festival, India's Jazz Yatra, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Jamaica Jazz Festival, the Toledo Jazz Festival, Jazz in the Sangres, the Verona Jazz Festival, and the Flint Jazz Festival to name a few. As a composer, Rudresh has twice received the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Grant to develop new work in conjunction with the Jazz Institute of Chicago (Manodharma Trio, 2001) and The Jazz Gallery of New York (Raw Materials, 2002). Recently, he was the only jazz composer to receive the prestigious American Composers Forum CCP Grant to compose BLACK WATER, which premiered in April 2002. Mahanthappa has his Bachelors of Music Degree in jazz performance from Berklee College of Music and his Masters of Music degree in jazz composition from Chicago's DePaul University. He currently teaches at The New School University and lives in New York.
Saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman is a former student of Jackie McLean and Anthony Braxton. Steve has collaborated with such seminal artists as Vijay Iyer, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Eddie Henderson, William Parker, Roy Campbell, Andrew Hill, Nasheet Waits, Anthony Braxton, The Oliver Lake Big Band, Jay Hoggard, Mark Dresser, Mark Helias, Michele Rosewoman, and Dave Burrell. His latest ensembles include, Fieldwork with Vijay Iyer and Elliot Kavee, the Interface Trio w/Mark Dresser and Pheeroan akLaff, Dual Identity with Rudresh Mahanthappa, and a quintet with rotating members that include Drew Gress, Mark Shim, Eric McPherson, Chris Dingman, Jonathan Finlayson and Tyshawn Sorey. As a composer Lehman has written pieces for large orchestra and chamber ensembles which have been performed by the Furious Ensemble, the Janacek Philharmonic, Marilyn Nonken, and members of Ensemble Sospeso, among others. He has received grants from the World Music Institute, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Ostrava New Music Days Festival and the prestigious Fulbright Grant. During the 2002-2003 academic year, Lehman was invited to teach an undergarduate course on current trends in improvised music at the Conservatoire Nationale Superieure de Musique de Paris. In 2004, two new recording of Lehman's original music will be released: Interface (Clean Feed) with Mark Dresser and Pheeroan akLaff, and Artificial Light (Fresh Sound New Talent) with Mark Shim, Eric McPherson, Drew Gress and Chris Dingman.
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