Candlelight Concerts: Jazzin' with the Classics for Christmas 2024
Suggested donation: $20-$30 (ages 18 & under free)
- Martin Lund, piano, clarinet, & flute
- Paul Gabrielson, double bass
- Jeffrey Cohan, flute
Candlelight Concerts and Faith Lutheran Church present the 7th annual "Jazzin' with the Classics for Christmas," featuring jazz pianist, flutist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and bassist Paul Gabrielson in a unique and joyous celebration of music for the holidays that bridges the jazz/classical divide.
In this program, three renowned jazz and classical artists and friends meld their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and unique celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer. Lund, Cohan, and Gabrielson team up to bridge contemporary improvisational jazz and the "art music" of Baroque and Renaissance times. Instrumental musicians have "jazzed up" melodies familiar to them in the style of their day for centuries, and this team's virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide favorites, and their renditions of classical standards will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds in a new program for 2024.
Candlelight Concerts, dedicated to George Shangrow and a non-profit in Washington State since 2011, continues a tradition which George initiated featuring chamber music both familiar and unusual performed by some of the Northwest's finest musicians.
About Martin Lund, piano, clarinet, & flute
Martin Lund, an extremely diverse musician, has played with some of the great blues artists of our time and worked in the studios of LA as a composer, arranger and musician with artists like Mel Torme to Isacc Hayes. His eclectic background has allowed him to move freely through any style of music from classical to rock and from jazz to Broadway. He is equally adept at clarinet, saxophone, flute, and piano. Martin is a well-known performer and teacher who produces one of Orcas Island's most popular summer music events, the Orcas Island Jazz Festival bringing in top talent from around the northwest and beyond. Martin graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in both music and music education.
https://lundscapes.com/About Paul Gabrielson, double bass
Jazz bassist and educator Paul Gabrielson has been playing professionally for over 30 years. Recently relocating back to Seattle from New York City, Paul brings with him a performance roster of some of the finest jazz musicians on the scene today, having performed with Jeff Watts, Jeff Herschfield, Mark Ferber, Benny Green, Bob Florence, Bill Mays, Geoff Keezer, Larry Fuller, Arturo O'Farrill, Ron Affif, Paul Bollenbach, Corey Christianson, Randy Johnston, Don Mock,Ingrid Jensen, Duane Eubanks, Terrell Stafford, Jon Gordon, Mingus Big Band, Diane Shure, Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy, and many more. Paul has taught at Pacific Lutheran University, Central Washington University and City College of New York and has given numerous clinics and recitals nationwide. Paul is also the festival founder and director of the annual Pinehurst Jazz Festival in Pinehurst, NC.
https://jazznightschool.org/products/paul-gabrielsonAbout Jeffrey Cohan, flute
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, who the Boston Globe calls "The Flute Master," has performed in 25 countries throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and for the USIA Arts America Program in the South Pacific, South America, Turkey, and Portugal. First Prize winner of the Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Competition in New York and recipient of grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music and the French Government, he has received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on transverse flutes from the renaissance through the early 19th Century. The only musician to have been awarded both the highest prize in the Concours Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium and in the Erwin Bodky Competition in Boston, two of the most prestigious prizes for performers of early music on period instruments, he has premiered new music by many American and European composers. Jeffrey Cohan directs the Cascade Early Music Festival, the Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival, and the Black Hawk Chamber Music Festival. The New York Times has heralded his ability to "play several superstar flutists one might name under the table."
https://www.jeffreycohan.com/