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X-WR-CALNAME:Guest Artist: Jazz Pianist\, Composer and Arranger Ryan Cohan
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DESCRIPTION:DePaul School of Music is pleased to welcome pianist\, composer
  and arranger Ryan Cohan to campus for a concert featuring his freshly pen
 ned extended composition\, Originations. Comprised of four connected yet d
 istinct pieces\, Originations incorporates a dynamic synthesis of Middle E
 astern and other World music influences\, classical compositional elements
  and jazz improvisation and is orchestrated for Cohan’s longstanding jaz
 z sextet plus The Grant Street String Quartet. Spotlighted in the jazz cha
 mber ensemble are the stellar talents of John Wojciechowski\, Geof Bradfie
 ld\, Tito Carrillo\, Lorin Cohen\, Juan Pastor\, Jennifer Leckie\, Eric Pi
 dluski\, Bonnie Yeager and Kerena Moeller.\n\nOriginations has been made p
 ossible with support from Chamber Music America's 2014 New Jazz Works: Com
 missioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity 
 of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundations.\n\nMotéma recording artist and 
 Guggenheim Fellow Ryan Cohan has distinguished himself as a vital original
  voice to be heard amongst the elite pianist/composers on the global music
  scene today. Leading his own groups and as a sideman\, Ryan has performed
  at premier venues worldwide and has worked with such jazz luminaries and 
 stellar ensembles as Freddie Hubbard\, Curtis Fuller\, Joe Locke\, Paquito
  D’Rivera\, Bob Cranshaw\, Victor Lewis\, Jeff Hamilton\, Orbert Davis a
 nd The Chicago Jazz Philharmonic\, Kurt Elling\, Jon Faddis\, Pat La Barbe
 ra\, Andy Narell\, Regina Carter\, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, MusicN
 OW Ensemble\, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble\, The Grant Park Symphony Orchestr
 a\, Otis Clay and The Chicago Chamber Musicians among many others. Ryan ha
 s written extensively for and toured with NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis\, c
 ontributing more than a dozen pieces to several of Mr. Lewis’s albums an
 d the theme music to Lewis’s nationally syndicated television show The L
 egends Of Jazz. In 2013\, Ryan penned orchestral arrangements for master v
 ibraphonist Joe Locke’s live concert recording\, Wish Upon A Star (Moté
 ma\, 2013) featuring Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra and recorded with Lock
 e’s quartet on his CD release\, Lay Down My Heart: Blues and Ballads\, V
 ol. 1.\n\nLeading his jazz quartet\, Ryan has embarked on multiple extende
 d tours for the U.S. Department of State in Africa\, Europe and The Middle
  East serving as a cultural ambassador along with his group. Ryan has prod
 uced five critically acclaimed albums of all original compositions: Real W
 orld (Real World Music\, 1997)\; Here and Now (Sirocco Jazz\, 2001)\; One 
 Sky (Motéma\, 2007) which was hailed as one of the best recordings of the
  year by the Chicago Tribune and many other journals\; and Another Look (M
 otéma\, 2010) called “a model for modern jazz piano albums” by ICON m
 agazine and The River (Motéma\, 2013) which features Ryan’s sixty minut
 e suite inspired by his travels in Africa. The River was performed at Mill
 ennium Park in Chicago to a crowd of over 8\,000 and was selected for seve
 ral prominent ‘Best of 2013’ music lists that appeared in publications
  nationally.\n\nAs a prolific writer for over twenty years\, Ryan has crea
 ted original works ranging from solo piano pieces to full orchestral arran
 gements and has scored three independent films. In recognition of his work
 \, Ryan has received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship For Composition
 \, Sundance Institute’s Film Composer Fellowship\, four grant awards fro
 m Chamber Music America\, The Aaron Copland Recording Grant\, two Illinois
  Arts Council Fellowships\, the Composer Assistance grant from American Mu
 sic Center and three creative arts grants from The City Of Chicago.\n\nAs 
 an educator\, Ryan has been on the faculty of The Skidmore Jazz Institute 
 in New York\, The Bloom School Of Jazz\, held the position of assistant di
 rector of jazz ensembles at the University Of Illinois at Chicago and cont
 inues to work as an artist clinician at universities and high schools thro
 ughout the U.S and abroad.
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LOCATION:School of Music\, Room 103
SUMMARY:Guest Artist: Jazz Pianist\, Composer and Arranger Ryan Cohan
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