Trio Globo to perform, offer master class at WMU
KALAMAZOO, Mich.--Western Michigan University's School of Music will welcome Trio Globo to Kalamazoo with a series of events on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Dalton Center Recital Hall as part of the Dalton Wed@7:30pm: Live and Interactive Series!
In addition to playing a concert at 7:30 p.m., the musicians will participate in a pre-concert talk with WMU's Dr. Robert White at 7 p.m. and will offer a master class at 1 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
Trio Globo
Collaborating since 1993, Trio Globo is made up of three Grammy award-winning musicians who have come together to create their own unique blend of jazz, American folk-pop, and various ethnic influences derived from travels in six continents. The instrumentation is world music but the composition is jazz.
Howard Levy, a fluent jazz pianist who doubles on harmonica, is widely known from his work with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. His harmonica solos appear on hundreds of recordings, including those by some of the biggest names in pop and rock such as Paul Simon, Dolly Parton and Styx.
Cellist Eugene Friesen from the Paul Winter Consort "plays cello like a bass one moment and a driving rhythm instrument the next, often doubling melodies with his voice for a haunting visceral effect,” says AFresh Entertainment Magazine.
Glen Velez is a master of a wide variety of percussion instruments from the Australian bullroarer to the Caribbean steel pan drums and the Filipino buzz sticks.
Trio Globo's performance is in collaboration with the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, the Great Lakes Acoustic Music Association, and the Donald P. Bullock Music Performance Institute.
Tickets
Tickets are $12 for general admission, $10 for seniors and $5 for students, and are available from Miller Auditorium at millerauditorium.com or by calling (269) 387-2300 or (800) 228-9858.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Start at (269) 382-2910, visit wmich.edu/music/events or call (269) 387-4667.
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