2023 Solo Piano Festival Recap

April 21-22, 2023

VIDEO I (upper left)
Feature Concert
Michael Weiss
Dan Tepfer

VIDEO II (upper right)
Feature Concert
Myra Melford
Orrin Evans

VIDEO III (lower left)
Emerging Artist Performances
Remi Savard
Shiyu Fang

VIDEO IV (lower right)
Educational Offerings
Michael Wiess – Harmony as an Expressive Device and Storytelling in Jazz
Orrin Evans – Reharms can be Fun
Myra Melford -Language of Dreams: Composing for Improvisers
Dan Tepfer – From Bach to Natural Machines: Algorithms as the Shapers of Music
Pianist Panel Discussion (Juried Questions)

This year each concert will have both a limited in-person audience as well as a livestream component. You may purchase in-person tickets here and/or donate to the livestream by clicking above.

The online streaming of this concert is offered by donation. Suggested donations: Full festival pass: $80-$120; Individual headliner concerts: $20 – $50; Saturday daytime pass: $60. Your contribution will go directly towards sustaining the Vermont Jazz Center’s mission of providing access to top quality jazz music to all as well as fair employment to jazz musicians.

Gratitude
The VJC’s Solo Jazz Piano Festival is a tribute to Mike McKenzie who, for the last 25 years has provided artists performing at the VJC with the finest pianos possible, including the Steinway D Concert Grand upon which this festival was founded. VJC is grateful to our many volunteers, and especially appreciative of our sponsors: two members of the VJC Summer Jazz Workshop community and Katy Oz. Their generosity is what has made this festival a reality. VJC acknowledges the Thompson Trust, the Windham Foundation, the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Humanities Council, and the New England Foundation of the Arts for their steadfast support and appreciates the excellent, pro-bono work by William Ballard and the exquisite care by Crystal Fielding as piano technicians.