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News Updates 2008:
In the beginning of the New Year January 2008, Donal Fox was nominated and awarded the prestigious Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Music. The annual prize is awarded to composers of exceptional accomplishment. Mr. Fox will officially receive the award, May 2008 by the officers and members of the Academy at the American Academy of Arts and Letters headquarters in New York.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra just announced that Donal Fox will be one the headline acts to perform at the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival at the renowned Ozawa Concert Hall with his Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project with special guest Christian Scott and Dianne Reeves. Click Here for full Tanglewood Schedule.
A few Season Highlights and Updates 2006 - 2007:
- World premiere of TJ Anderson's Fragments for Improvised Piano and Orchestra written for Donal and the University of Iowa Symphony orchestra, Hancher Auditorium, William Larue Jones Conducting. The premiere performance was recorded live for PBS IPTV, October 2006. Click Here to see Donal performing the second Movement from the PBS-IPTV broadcast.
- Inaugurated the Barbara Lee family Foundation Theater at the new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) with a solo recital, December 2006 and gave the first public music performance at the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater at the ICA to a sold out audience in February 2007. Click Here to see Donal rehearsing his trio at the Barbara Lee family Foundation Theater, ICA.
- Donal was invited to give performances at The City Hall Theatre in Bermuda of his Mashups in Blue Project under the distinguished patronage of Premier of Bermuda Dr. The Hon. Ewart Brown JP, MP and Mrs. Brown, March 2007. Click Here to see the Donal Fox Trio in performance at the City Hall Theater, Bermuda.
- First featured jazz artists to perform in the 100 year old history of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Bach Festival in Bethlehem. PA. Donal was invited to present his Blues on Bach Project to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the oldest Bach Festival in the United States, May 2007. The performance sold-out months in advance!
- Donal gave the New York Premiere of his Scarlatti Jazz Suite at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York (July 2007) and was featured on American Public Radio's Weekend America leading up to the show and engagement. Click Here to see Donal Fox quartet performing at the Blue Note Jazz Club.
- First live jazz performance and music broadcast with a live studio audience in the new National Public Radio station WGBH Fraser Performance Studio (October 2007) Donal's solo piano performance also had the distinction of christening the NPR station's new 9-foot Hamburg Steinway Concert Grand Piano!
- Visiting artist in a new program funded by the U.S. State Department called the Fusion Arts Exchange, hosted by Northeastern University Department of Music (July-August 2007). Donal taught an international body of music students from Mali, South Africa, India, Brazil, Ireland and USA the art of improvisation, performance and composition (classical, jazz, and world music) in an intense five week program of musical cultural exchange. Donal was responsible for the development of the Fusion Arts Ensemble that culminated in a series of concert performances emphasizing collective improvisation, composition, and cross cultural performance practices. The creative process, class room discussions, rehearsals and concerts were documented and videotaped for the State Department Click Here.
- Donal Fox ushered in the New Year celebrating Boston's First Night 2008 with a TV performance/interview with Entertainment Reporter Joyce Kulhawick Click Here and performed to a capacity crowd at the historic Emmanuel Church in Boston. His concert gave several musical dedications to the recent lose of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to the great jazz luminaries such Oscar Peterson and Frank Morgan.
A few Season Highlights and Updates 2005 - 2006:
- Donal Fox: Monk and Bach Project at Lincoln Center, December 6 - 11, 2005
Featuring George Mraz double bass, Lewis Nash, drums.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
For information and reservations, please call: +1 212 258-9595, or order tickets online at www.jalc.org. - Donal Fox: Solo Concert Recital, November 19, 2005
Mr. Fox will give a solo piano recital (classical), as part of a concert series at the Performing Arts Center, sponsored by the University at Albany, NY., November 19, 2005. The concert is entitled: Transformations, Variations, Improvisations."New music gains a most powerful ally in a performer who can contribute a fresh interpretation of the work, and through the abilities of a great pianist/composer like Donal Fox, the audience will certainly embark on a most fascinating sonic voyage. Fox has devoted a significant part of his career to the exploration and expansion of the compositional process. His role in this evening's concert demonstrates his craft in the realm of improvisation based on a given theme or thematic set. Fox will demonstrate the elastic horizons of the written musical score as a medium of human expression and creating novel musical experiences based on the sources. Fox reminds us that the art of improvisation has been honored for centuries, even before Bach's time, and that as we enter the 21st Century, extemporaneous composition can be applied effectively not only to jazz, but to all genres of music."
- Commission: Revisits Classic Spirituals Project, December, 2005
Mr. Fox has been commissioned to write original arrangements of Negro Spirituals for the Albany Symphony Orchestra (NY) Revisits Classic Spirituals Project. Many renowned American composers have also been commissioned for this project -- John Haribson, David Del Tredici, George Tsontakis, John Corigilano, etc. Eventually the project will be recorded by the orchestra. The conductor is David Allen Meyers with special guest Nathan Myers, Baritone. The premiere date is early December 2005 (see more details below)."The Spirituals Project, new arrangements of traditional spirituals by contemporary American composers. David Alan Miller, the orchestra's music director and conductor, said the intent of the project was to "rediscover and reinvent" a classic American art form that is not as universally recognized as it deserves to be. When looking for composers to commission for the project, Mr. Miller purposely overlooked folk composers and sought "interesting and compelling" composers representing a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, he said. Baritone Nathan Myers will be the guest soloist for The Spirituals Project. "
- New commission in Memory of William A. Brown, March, 2006
World premiere performance of a new song commissioned by Videmus and Ms. Toppin in honor and memory of concert tenor William A. Brown, performed by soprano Ms. Louise Toppin, March 24, 2006 at Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall. - World Premiere Performance of T.J Anderson's Fragments, Fall 2006
World premiere performance of T.J. Anderson's second piano concerto, entitled Fragments, written expressly for Mr. Fox, University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Hancher Auditorium, fall of 2006.
A few Season Highlights and Updates 2003-2004:
- Donal Fox and Gary Burton in duet at the Getty Museum, CA, February, 2003
- Featured artist at the 2003 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Remembering
the MJQ, Donal Fox: Inventions in Blue with Stefon Harris,
vibraphone, John Lockwood, bass, and Yoron Israel, drums.
- Composer-in-residence and artist in residence at the Tyrone
Guthrie Centre, Northern Ireland, October/November, 2003
- World premiere performance of T.J. Anderson's piano concerto
Boogie Woogie Concertante and performance of John Lewis'
classic Three Little Feelings with the Harvard Wind
Ensemble, Thomas Everett, conductor, December, 2003
- The German premiere of Toccata on Bach at the 80
Jubilaeum des Bauhaus-Fests (2003) by great German pianist Veronica
Jochum. Subsequent performances throughout Germany and Switzerland by
Ms. Jochum, April, 2004 and July, 2004
- Performance of Fox's Etudes de concert at the National Gallery of
Arts in Washington, DC by Frederick Moyer, February 2004 and Athens,
Greece (2003)
- Donal Fox: Monk and Bach Project with John Patitucci, bass and Al
Foster, drums, 2004 Regattabar Jazz Festival, April 2004
- Featured soloist at Lincoln Center, LaGuardia Concert Hall with
the MSM Jazz Philharmonic performing the New York premiere of Boogie
Woogie Concertante as part of the American Composers Orchestra's
festival on Improvisation and the Orchestra. (April, 2004)
- French and Dutch premiere of Refutation and Hypothesis
I in Paris and Amsterdam by Guy Livingston, 2004.
- Composer-in-residence and artist-in-residence at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany (September/October 2004)
- Solo piano concert entitled Transformations, Variations, Improvisations presented at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Kebbel-Villa concert series, October 7, 2004, Germany
The following groups -- including solo piano performances -- may be available for your concert, festival, or event:
- DONAL FOX: BLUES ON BACH, A tribute to John Lewis (chamber jazz)
- DONAL FOX: MONK AND BACH PROJECT
- DONAL FOX : SCARLATTI JAZZ SUITE
- REMEMBERING THE MJQ, DONAL FOX: INVENTIONS IN BLUE PROJECT
- DONAL FOX/OLIVER LAKE-DUO JAZZ (free jazz)
- DONAL FOX: BLUES, BUD, BACH, AND MONK(solo piano)
- DONAL FOX: TRANSFORMATIONS, VARIATIONS, IMPROVISATIONS (classical/jazz)
- DONAL FOX with QUINCY TROUPE (composer & poet)
- DONAL FOX and the GONE CITY TRIO (classical/jazz)
- DONAL FOX with SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (classical/jazz)
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