Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project Harlem in the Himalayas
Friday March 19, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
$18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of
Member Price: $16.20
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet
Yaron Hermann, piano
Joe Saunders, bass
Justin Brown, drums
Christian Howes, violin
Anastasia Sukhopara, violin
Peter Ugrin , viola
Catherine Bent, cello
Before he was eighteen, Ambrose had already performed with such famed musicians as Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Steve Coleman, and Billy Higgins. After graduating Berkeley High School, he moved to New York to begin a scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Vincent Pinzerella from the New York Philharmonic, Dick Oatts, Lew Soloff, and Laurie Frink.
Throughout his studies, Ambrose continued to tether audiences to his concepts and his sound, performing publicly with Lonnie Plaxico, Stefon Harris, Josh Roseman, Vijay Iyer, Charlie Persip, the Mingus Big Band, and the San Francisco Jazz Collective, to name only a few. His exposure to dynamic modes of playing and to musicians with accumulated experiences only promoted the development of his own distinct musical style.
Ambrose is a recent graduate of the Masters program at USC, and also the Monk Institute, Ambrose's instructors include Terence Blanchard, Billy Childs and Gary Grant. In the past year, he has worked with such artists as Jimmy Heath, Jason Moran, Hal Crook, Bob Hurst, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ron Carter, and Wallace Roney, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Most recently Ambrose is the winner of both the 2007 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.
His debut recording as a leader, Prelude to Cora was released in 2008 on Fresh Sounds. Although he has appeared in the series before, this performance marks his debut as a leader.
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