Tuesday Musical Association will reignite the highly requested FUZE! up-close classical concert series. The Composers Voice - Gregg Kallor, composer/pianist in concert with cellist Dave Eggar, the first FUZE! concert since 2012, will be held on Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at the Steinway Piano Gallery with a start time of 7:00 pm. The program will feature many of Kallor’s original compositions as well as works by Ginastera, Corea, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff. A reception will follow the concert allowing time for the audience to meet the musicians.
Gregg Kallor, composer, pianist
Gregg Kallor is a composer and pianist whose music fuses the classical and jazz traditions he loves into a new, deeply personal language. Kallor received an Aaron Copland Award for composition in 2011; he wrote a concerto for piano and orchestra during his residency at the home of the late eminent American composer. Kallor is the inaugural Composer-In-Residence at SubCulture in New York City. The first season of his two-year residency will feature world premieres of three new pieces and collaborations with cellist Joshua Roman, violinist Miranda Cuckson, mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala, and baritone Matthew Worth.
His recent solo recording, A Single Noon, is a musical tableau of life in New York City that evokes moments of caffeinated bliss, embarrassing subway mishaps, and the buzzing energy of a city driven by dynamic, thoughtful, talented, and slightly crazy people. Fred Hersch calls A Single Noon "the work of an extraordinary pianist, a composer of great distinction and a true conceptualist... This ambitious and unique suite takes us somewhere that is very deeply heartfelt and dazzlingly executed. This is 21st-century music that has clearly absorbed the past and looks to a bright and borderless musical future."
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Gregg Kallor lives in New York City, where he makes excellent use of his MetroCard. He began improvising on the piano in his home as soon as he could walk over to it, started classical piano lessons when he was six, and added jazz lessons a few years later. He graduated from Tufts University with a degree in American Studies.
Dave Eggar, cellist
Three-time Grammy-nominated cellist and composter Dave Eggar has performed as a soloist throughout the world including featured performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and many others. A virtuoso in many styles, Mr. Eggar has performed and recorded with such artists as Tony Bennett, Joshua Bell, Andrea Bocelli, The Who, Train Coldplay, Norah Jones and may others. Eggar is a graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School and has won awards from SONY Records, ASCAP, the Independent Music Awards, the Leonard Bernstein Foundation, and Time Magazine for his work in contemporary Music.