Lance Martin Band: Midday Jazz Muse April 2 (Wed) / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
The Lance Martin Band is a flute-led jazz, funk, and gospel band with keys, drums, electronic bass, back-up vocals, and lead flute. The band plays in a style called Physical Jazz, which is visually aggressive and musically entertaining. In the tradition of jazz, many of the songs are instrumentals backed by soulful vocals, and often taken from popular songs of our times. Think Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Amy Winehouse, and Justin Timberlake! The Lance Martin Band includes Jonathan Singleton, keyboards; Joe Sumerell, bass; Zeke Martin, drums; Athene Wilson, vocals; Angie Gates, vocals; and Lance Martin, flute.
Brooklyn Rider
Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad, traditional and technology-based Japanese shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki, Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes, and more. Brooklyn Rider includes Johnny Gandelsman, violin; Colin Jacobsen, violin; Nicholas Cords, viola; Eric Jacobsen, cello.
BROOKLYN RIDER RESIDENCY We are thrilled to host the acclaimed string quartet Brooklyn Rider on the Wellesley College campus for a week of activities. In addition to their major concert and working with students in the Music Department, the musicians will also do a “pop up” concert in a high traffic area as part of the Making Space project. (See page 2.) As educators, Brooklyn Rider members have enjoyed residencies at Williams College, MacPhail Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Texas A&M University, Denison University, and UNC Chapel Hill.
MAKING SPACE “On The Street”: Asphalt Orchestra, A Radical Street Band May 7 (Wed) / 1:00 PM, 5:30 PM, and 7:00 PM
See page 2 for details.
NEW PROGRAM! Open Notes Open Notes is Wellesley College’s newest series of informal concerts featuring students, faculty, and ensembles who choose to share their work. These informal concerts, often in public spaces, will take place monthly, and will be announced at least two weeks in advance. “Like” the Facebook page “Concert Series at Wellesley College” to be among the first to receive information about these special concerts, or join the mailing list at www.wellesley. edu/music/concertseries.
Brooklyn Rider: Midday Muse April 9 (Wed) / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Brooklyn Rider Concert April 12 (Sat) / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Born out of a desire to use the rich medium of the string quartet as a vehicle for communication across a large span of history and geography, Brooklyn Rider is equally devoted to the interpretation of existing quartet literature and to the creation of new works. The musicians have worked with such composers as Derek Bermel, Lisa Bielawa, Ljova, Philip Glass, Osvaldo Golijov, Jenny Scheinman, and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, and they also regularly perform pieces written or arranged by members of the group. Another integral part of the group’s work involves creative collaborations with other artists, such as Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, Syrian/
STUDENT ENSEMBLES Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Spring Concert: Catch a Rising Star! Neal Hampton, Conductor April 13 (Sun) / 7:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Featuring winners of the the BWO Concerto Competition: Aaron Zuckerman, Brandeis ’14 (Gregson’s Tuba Concerto) and Maria Brusco, 10