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Erik Jekabson String-tet featuring Adam Shulman plays Ellington
October 5, 2014 @ 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Erik Jekabson String-tet featuring Adam Shulman plays Ellington
Sunday, October 5, 3:00-5:30PM
Avanova, 417 Avon Street, Oakland
$15, please RSVP at the website below
http://avonovamusic.com/erik-jekabson-string-tet-featuring-adam-shulman-plays-ellington
“Please join us on Sunday, October 5 when Avonova presents Erik Jekabson and his Stringtet. The show starts at 3:00PM and the admission charge is set at $15 general and $10 seniors and students. Erik’s chamber ensemble, featuring Mads Tolling on violin, Charith Premawardhana on viola, Michael Zilber on saxophones, Dillon Vado on vibes, John Wiitala on bass and Smith Dobson on drums, plays his arrangements of Ellington’s music, featuring the fantastic pianist Adam Shulman.
Erik currently leads his own ensembles in the Bay Area, and has brought them to the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the DeYoung Museum, the SFJazz Center, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Jazzschool, the Napa Valley Jazz Society’s Parlor Series, Jazz at Pearl’s, The Sound Room, Pacifica Performances, the Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, the Red Poppy Art House and the Piedmont Piano Company. He also works with local Bay Area musicians such as Jeff Denson, Mario Guarneri’s tbd, the Michael O’Neill Quintet featuring Kenny Washington, Patrick Wolff’s Sextet, Larry Vuckovich, Adam Shulman, Smith Dobson’s Prez Kids and Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Erik has a Bachelors Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master’s Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is currently the director of the Young Musician’s Program at the Jazzschool, and serves on the board of Jazz in the Neighborhood. He is on the faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory, Los Medanos College and Diablo Valley College, and has given clinics at Santa Rosa Junior College, Cal State East Bay and Loyola College in New Orleans. He’s a regular instructor at Jazzcamp West, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Lafayette Summer Jazz Workshop and at the Brubeck Institute. Erik has also written two books of jazz duets for trumpet.”