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UA Announces 2014-2015 Sonic Frontiers Season

9/17/2014

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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).

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