Jazz Piano Concert Series
Tamir Hendelman Program solo piano Selections will be announced from the stage.
Belmont University School of Music
About the Performer Whether leading the Tamir Hendelman Trio or as a long-time member of the Jeff Hamilton Trio and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, award-winning pianistcomposer Tamir Hendelman is known for his dynamic and sensitive touch, and his imaginative arranging. Tamir Hendelman has toured and recorded with Natalie Cole (Still Unfortgettable), Barbra Streisand (“Love Is The Answer”, One Night Only: Live at the Village Vanguard), Roberta Gambarini (Easy to Love), and in duo with Tierney Sutton, in venues from the US to Europe to Japan. As a youth, he moved from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles, winning Yamaha’s national keyboard competition, performing in Japan and the Kennedy Center, attending Tanglewood in 1998 and receiving a Bachelor of Music Composition from the Eastman School of Music in 1993 after studies with pianist/composers Clare Fischer and Billy Childs. His own latest trio recording, Destinations, reached #1 in the US jazz charts and explores his musical influences, while his first recording, Playground, features him with John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton with whom he has performed in the ClaytonHamilton Jazz Orchestra since 2001. Hendelman appears on recordings by Paul McCartney, Michael Bublé and Diana Krall. He has performed with Benny Golson, Eddie Henderson, Houston Person, James Moody and Sean Jones and has recorded and arranged for Richard Galliano, LoriBell, Graham Dechter and Claudio Roditi.
When Hendelman premiered John Clayton’s version of Oscar Peterson’s Canadiana Suite in 2001 with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Mr. Peterson wrote: “It was a satisfying but strange feeling... to hear a new young voice make some exhilarating and thoughtful solos in the spaces I used to occupy in those pieces...” TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024 7:30 P.M. McAfee Concert Hall
A featured soloist with the Winston-Salem Symphony on Rhapsody In Blue, Hendelman performed 2018 and 2022 tributes to Jobim with members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Since 2005, Hendelman has taught at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music’s Global Jazz Studies department. He has served as a clinician at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival and been a judge at the American Pianists Association Competition.