Danced as a guest with Atlanta Ballet, Briansky Ballet, Louisville Civic Ballet and Washington Ballet. Bill Evans is a performer, teacher, choreographer, lecturer, administrator, movement analyst, writer, adjudicator and dance advocate with a uniquely varied and comprehensive background of experiences and accomplishments. “Alfie” begins at the 11:20 mark. • Has been honored by the creation of the Bill Evans Award for Embodied Scholarship, Department of Dance, School of The Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, The College at Brockport, State University of New York, April 2014, and awards in his name to the outstanding graduating dance major at the University of New Mexico, the outstanding teacher in the Arizona Dance Education Organization and an annual scholarship for a student attending the annual conference of the National Dance Education Organization. Kahurangi Maori Dance Trust (Hastings, New Zealand), CODACO--the resident company of Complejo Cultural de Pueblo (Mexico), Fusionworks Dance (Lincoln, Rhode Island). He recorded over fifty albums as leader and received five Grammy awards. Tags As a teenager he was enthusiastic about rock and grunge music before digging deeper into jazz through his father's record collection. • Maintains an active career as a freelance choreographer, solo performer, master teacher, adjudicator and consultant and has appeared in all 50 states as well as throughout Canada and Mexico and in many other countries, including Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, England, Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Scotland and Wales. Pekka Juhani Pöyry (10 December 1939 in Helsinki – 4 August 1980 in Helsinki) was a Finnish jazz and rock saxophonist and flutist. largest performing arts organization in Washington State. Different performances of the Bill Evans composition "Time Remembered". The career of Bill Evans (1929-1980) had an unusual curve. If you can say it easy, why make it hard?”, As it happens, JazzWax is just running a terrific three-part interview with Marty Morell about his years with Bill Evans. Bill Evans turned 41 that year and was near the height of his powers. Who2 does not collect any personal information. He has had an ongoing relationship for several decades and serves on the RDT national advisory board. Bill Evans, one of the most influential and tragic figures of the post-bop jazz piano, was known for his highly nuanced touch, the clarity of the feeling content of his music and his reform of the chord voicing system pianists used. Completed residencies in Guatemala (2013) and Costa Rica (2016), Nominated by The College at Brockport, State University of New York, for the U.S. Illka Kuusisto was a classically-trained organist and composer who was the conductor at the Helsinki City Theater and later general manager of the Finnish National Opera. These are just some of the well known jazz musicians that anyone who likes jazz would know of. Resonance's Bill Evans discovery from 2016, Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest was a particularly groundbreaking achievement for us, as we sold over 60,000 copies worldwide. Pöyry became interested in jazz music at school and began studying the violin and clarinet playing. Though he could be a mainstream, swinging jazz pianist, his faster pieces could also be less accessible, jagged and angular. [i](Not including all reissues and "best of" type comps. In 1959, he formed his “first trio,” which reinvented the piano trio and played a key role in determining the sound of modern jazz. Alexi Tuomarila started studying classical piano at the age of 6 at the Espoo Music Academy, Finland.