MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Pianist, composer and MTSU
faculty member Matt Endahl will jazz
up the final notes of MTSU’s 2016-17 Keyboard Artist Series Monday, Feb. 27,
with a free public concert in the university’s Wright Music Building.
The
award-winning Nashville musician will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Wright
Building’s Hinton Music Hall. A searchable campus map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Endahl’s
concert set list will feature works by jazz greats Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy and more,
including Ellington’s classic “I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart” and Handy’s
“St. Louis Blues.”
One of
Nashville’s most in-demand pianists, Endahl has performed in groups led by Jeff
Coffin, Rahsaan Barber, Duffy Jackson, Christina Watson, Marcus Finnie, Dara
Tucker and many others. He also has shared the stage with legendary jazz
figures like Arthur Blythe, Jimmy Heath, Jane Ira Bloom, Dave Liebman and the
late Marcus Belgrave.
Endahl
studied piano at the University of Michigan, where he earned his master's
degree in improvisation in 2012. In 2008 he was a Bösendorfer Montreux Jazz
Solo Piano Competition semi-finalist, and from 2008 to 2013, he was a member of
the music faculty at Hillsdale College. He has presented performances,
compositions and research at numerous international music association meetings
and performed at Jazzanooga, the Detroit International Jazz Festival and the
avant-garde music festival Edgefest in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
From 2010
to 2013, Engdahl hosted jazz and experimental music radio programs on WCBN-FM
Ann Arbor, interviewing music legends Henry Grimes, Mayo Thompson, and Larry
Austin. Since 2008 he has managed Sound Mansion Recordings, an outlet for his
experimental music, and he also operates “A Shot in the Dark,” a blog devoted
to his jazz and improvised music research.
Along
with his classes at MTSU, Endahl teaches at Belmont University and the
Nashville Jazz Workshop and maintains a private teaching studio.
For more
information on the Keyboard Artist Series at MTSU, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/music/keyboardseries.php.
MTSU concludes Keyboard Artist
Series Feb. 27 with free Endahl concert
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Pianist, composer and MTSU
faculty member Matt Endahl will jazz
up the final notes of MTSU’s 2016-17 Keyboard Artist Series Monday, Feb. 27,
with a free public concert in the university’s Wright Music Building.
The
award-winning Nashville musician will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Wright
Building’s Hinton Music Hall. A searchable campus map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Endahl’s
concert set list will feature works by jazz greats Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy and more,
including Ellington’s classic “I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart” and Handy’s
“St. Louis Blues.”
One of
Nashville’s most in-demand pianists, Endahl has performed in groups led by Jeff
Coffin, Rahsaan Barber, Duffy Jackson, Christina Watson, Marcus Finnie, Dara
Tucker and many others. He also has shared the stage with legendary jazz
figures like Arthur Blythe, Jimmy Heath, Jane Ira Bloom, Dave Liebman and the
late Marcus Belgrave.
Endahl
studied piano at the University of Michigan, where he earned his master's
degree in improvisation in 2012. In 2008 he was a Bösendorfer Montreux Jazz
Solo Piano Competition semi-finalist, and from 2008 to 2013, he was a member of
the music faculty at Hillsdale College. He has presented performances,
compositions and research at numerous international music association meetings
and performed at Jazzanooga, the Detroit International Jazz Festival and the
avant-garde music festival Edgefest in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
From 2010
to 2013, Engdahl hosted jazz and experimental music radio programs on WCBN-FM
Ann Arbor, interviewing music legends Henry Grimes, Mayo Thompson, and Larry
Austin. Since 2008 he has managed Sound Mansion Recordings, an outlet for his
experimental music, and he also operates “A Shot in the Dark,” a blog devoted
to his jazz and improvised music research.
Along
with his classes at MTSU, Endahl teaches at Belmont University and the
Nashville Jazz Workshop and maintains a private teaching studio.
For more
information on the Keyboard Artist Series at MTSU, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/music/keyboardseries.php.
For
details on more MTSU School of Music events, call 615-898-2493 or
visit the Concert Calendar at http://www.mtsu.edu/music/calendar.php.
For
details on more MTSU School of Music events, call 615-898-2493 or
visit the Concert Calendar at http://www.mtsu.edu/music/calendar.php.
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