Stride for Davis by Donal Fox [fragment]
Presented in Honor of Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
Donal Fox, piano, composer, improviser
Harry Cooper, Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art
Jazz pianist Donal Fox performs three short sets in the large room of the Stuart Davis exhibition, in front of Swing Landscape(1938)
Stuart Davis: In Full Swing
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
West Building, Gallery M-78
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Program Notes:
Donal Fox in “conversation” with Stuart Davis Swing Landscape (1938) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Mr. Fox is the first pianist and jazz musician to perform live in the National Gallery of Art, Exhibition Gallery space in its 75 year history. A Steinway 9′ foot, Model D Concert Grand was brought in for the historic occasion. December 2016.
Donal Fox is internationally acclaimed as composer, pianist, and improviser in both jazz and classical music. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim fellowship in music composition, and a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation. He served as the first African- American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony and was a visiting artist at Harvard University, where he received a Certificate of Recognition from the President of Harvard College for his contribution to the arts. Mr. Fox recently premiered his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center, his Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project at Tanglewood, and the world premiere of his piano concerto Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Liguria Study Center (Italy), Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, among others. Donal Fox has performed and recorded with many artists including Oliver Lake, John Stubblefield, David Murray, Elliott Sharp, Regina Carter, George Mraz, Al Foster, Stefon Harris, Christian Scott, Terri Lyne Carrington, Maya Beiser, Hilary Hahn, and poet Quincy Troupe, among others. He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music & Arts, Passin’ Thru Records, Yamaha’s Original Artist Series, and Wergo Records. His works are published by Margun Music, G. Schirmer, and Leonellis Music. He is a recipient of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Music and a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Fox was recently featured on the Emancipation 150 Series, presented by WQXR, part of The NEXT New York Conversation and the Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Donal Fox is a Steinway Artist.
Management:
Bernstein Artists, Inc, New York
www.bernsarts.com
email: [email protected]
tel: 718-623-1214
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