The University of Alabama’s New College is pleased to present the fourth season of Sonic Frontiers, with another jaw-dropping lineup of forward-thinking music. This fall’s events feature musicians who explore the outer boundaries of jazz, and a cross-continental performance incorporating cutting-edge digital technology in an internet connected live performance. Sonic Frontiers is a concert series of innovative and experimental music that enriches the cultural life of West Alabama and invites creative exchange between world-class performers of adventurous music, students, and the greater community through public performances and lively post-concert discussions with the artists and audience. The fall events of the 201415 season begin on October 3rd with critically-acclaimed trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas with his Quintet, and continue on November 5th with an internet-connected transcontinental concert by ECM recording artists Dans les arbres. All Sonic Frontiers events are free and open to the public. The events are sponsored by the University of Alabama’s New College, College of Arts and Sciences, Jazz Studies and School of Music. SONIC FRONTIERS FOURTH SEASON KICKOFF EVENT Dave Douglas Quintet Friday, October 3rd, 2014, 7:30 PM University of Alabama’s Moody Concert Hall 810 Second Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 $10 general admission, $5 seniors, $3 students Video preview: http://youtu.be/Qw0BESvKWIw The University of Alabama Jazz Studies program in partnership with the Sonic Frontiers concert series is proud to present the Dave Douglas Quintet, featuring a stellar lineup of musicians including Troy Roberts/tenor saxophone, Bobby Avey/piano, Linda Oh/ bass, and Anwar Marshall/drums. Tickets can be found here: http://uamusic.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=671782 Dave Douglas is a prolific trumpeter, composer and educator from New York City. His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland award and two Grammy nominations. Since 2005, Douglas has operated his own record label, Greenleaf Music, releasing his own recordings as well as albums by other artists in the jazz idiom. Douglas has held several posts as an educator and impresario. From 2002 to 2012, he served as artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at The Banff Centre in Canada. In 2013, he begins his second year as International Jazz Artist in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London. TRANSCONTINENTAL CONCERT: DANS LES ARBRES + DEWAR/FEENEY/HOPSON TRIO Wednesday, November 5th, 2014, 8:00 PM UA School of Music Moody Recital Hall 810 Second Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Free Admission Video preview of Dans les arbres: http://youtu.be/ddC7C3Rlm_8 A transcontinental internet-connected performance that brings the innovative Dutch and French quartet Dans les arbres into dialogue with University of Alabama professors Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano saxophone), Tim Feeney (percussion), and Holland Hopson (electronics). *ADVANCE NOTICE FOR SPRING 2015* WEEKLONG RESIDENCY BY LEGENDARY SAXOPHONIST/COMPOSER ANTHONY BRAXTON All concerts free and open to the public February 18-25th, 2015 This residency is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts. MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton will spend a week at the Capstone in spring 2015 thanks to a major National Endowment for the Arts grant won by Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, Associate Professor in New College and the School of Music and co-director of UA’s Creative Campus. Plans are in the works to give University of Alabama music and dance students the opportunity to rehearse with Braxton and participate in interdisciplinary, world premiere performances combining original music and choreography. Braxton’s musical career spans more than five decades. His many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a 2009 honorary doctorate from the Université de Liège in Belgium, a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2013 New Music USA Letter of Distinction. He is also a 2014 NEA Jazz Master. UK FREE JAZZ PIONEERS TREVOR WATTS (SAX) & VERYAN WESTON (PIANO) DUO Sunday, April 12th, 2014, 7:00 PM UA School of Music Moody Recital Hall 810 Second Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Free Admission Video preview: http://youtu.be/D75cn5DQU9k A duo concert by UK pioneers of free jazz Trevor Watts (saxophones) and Veryan Weston (piano). Trevor Watts was a founding member of the seminal English group Spontaneous Music Ensemble that began in 1965 with John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and subsequently included Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Dave Holland & Kenny Wheeler, amongst others. Watts has always been a musician interested in incorporating a wide variety and range of playing areas within his style, from purely improvised music to his more jazz oriented smaller groups. Veryan Weston was born in 1950 and moved from Cornwall to London in 1972 where he began playing as a freelance jazz pianist as well as developing as an improviser at Little Theatre Club. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s he worked with Eddie Prévost Quartet, Trevor Watts' Moiré Music and Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton. Major festivals have included Zurich, Berlin, Nickelsdorf, Karlsruhe, Warsaw, Wroclaw, San Sebastian, Bombay, Vancouver, Nancy, Aukland, Nevers, Washington, Lille, Houston, Le Mans, Strasbourg, Bologna and Victoriaville. MORE EXCITING EVENTS FOR SPRING 2015 TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! ABOUT SONIC FRONTIERS Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s very own adventurous music series, Sonic Frontiers premiered in spring 2012, building on a number of successful experimental music events organized in the area since 2008 by series founder and artistic director Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, a composer/musician and assistant professor in New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama. The 20132014 season featured six concerts, including the neo-psychedelia of Alabama’s own Them Natives, the challenging sounds of balloonist/composer Judy Dunaway, an evening of new music for viola by three of the world’s foremost practitioners, a performance by legendary visual artist and performer Lonnie Holley, culminating in a dizzyingly danceable season finale performance by critically-acclaimed New York City-based piano trio Dawn of Midi. The University of Alabama, a student -centered research university, is experiencing significant growth in both enrollment and academic quality. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of Choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.
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