New York premiere of Donal Fox work
live broadcast from Carnegie Hall | May 10, 2011
Spirituals Re-Imagined
Composer/pianist and MLK Visiting Scholar, Donal Fox will have the New York premiere of his “Hear De Lambs A-Cryin" at Carnegie Hall, performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
The concert, entitled "Spring For Music: Spirituals Re-Imagined," also features work by John Harbison, MIT Institute Professor of Music. It begins at 7:30pm, and will be broadcast live from Carnegie Hall on NPR stations nationwide. During intermission there will also be an interview with Donal at the piano hosted by Elliot Forrest for WNYC/WQXR
Springtime Performance in Cambridge
Mashups in Afro Blue | April 29, 2011
Donal Fox Quartet: Mashups in Afro Blue with Cuban Percussionist Dafnis Prieto
April 29, 8pm and 10 pm
Scullers Jazz Club, Cambridge
Audio Interview
Donal Fox on WGBH | The Calllie Crossley Show
About
Donal Fox is an acclaimed, innovative composer and pianist, and an MLK Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor in MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Inspired by Bach, Monk, Schumann, Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Coltrane and others, Fox has forged a unique amalgam of jazz, Latin American, and classical music. His virtuosic, swinging style is at once poetic and hip, and of his music, Jazz Hot has written, "Fox's music is unlike that of anyone else, while at the same time it evokes McCoy Tyner, Art Tatum, the intensity of Coltrane and of the blues, shades of Bach and Cuban music.”
Suggested Links
www.leonellismusic.com
Music Section | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
MIT Dr. Martin Luther King Visiting Professors Program
http://www.facebook.com/donal.fox
Donal Fox premiere at Tanglewood, 2010
http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2010-donal-fox-project-premiere-tanglewood
Donal Fox concerto world premiere at Carnegie Hall, 2009
http://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2009-world-premiere-donal-fox-concerto-carnegie-hall
video podcast on youtube
Photocredits, top and bottom: Lou Jones