MECA's Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Concert Series Presents America 88x50 with Adam Tendler.HOUSTON -- Celebrated for his brilliant interpretations, and reviewed as "deserving of the cheers he received ... a pianist in command," Adam Tendler has emerged from the rural hills of Vermont as a young American pianist recognized for his musical sensitivity, daring, ambition, and advocacy. Born in 1982, Adam Tendler grew up in a musical family that simultaneously immersed im·merse tr.v. im·mersed, im·mers·ing, im·mers·es 1. To cover completely in a liquid; submerge. 2. To baptize by submerging in water. 3. itself in the traditions of classical music while experiencing an overhaul of modern popular and local rural culture. Beginning classical performance training at the age of 7, Tendler immediately began to compose and perform music that often inadvertently fused the two. Attending a public high school, Tendler performed in solo piano recitals, jazz concerts, orchestral performances, and choral cho·ral adj. 1. Of or relating to a chorus or choir. 2. Performed or written for performance by a chorus. [Medieval Latin chor projects throughout New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . He also taught children and adults privately, served as musical director for theatre productions, and won a number of awards and competitions for piano performances. Mr. Tendler graduated from the Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. School of Music with a Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance. His college studies included more eclectic programs in the history of Motown, training in the Swahili language Swahili language, member of the Bantu group of African languages (see African languages and Bantu languages). Swahili is spoken by 30 million people, chiefly in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo (Kinshasa), Burundi, and Uganda, and serves as a lingua franca for additional , guitar performance, cultural anthropology, and Feldenkrais method Feldenkrais Method Definition The Feldenkrais method is an educational system that allows the body to move and function more efficiently and comfortably. Its goal is to re-educate the nervous system and improve motor ability. . Additional training at the Adamant Music School, Adamant Vermont, included studying under Vai-Meng Lei, Elaine Greenfield, and Dmitry Rachmanov.
What: America 88x50 with Adam Tendler
When: Friday, April 21, 2006
At 8:00 p.m.
Where: MECA
1900 Kane
Houston, Texas 77007
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
For more information please visit MECA's website at www.meca-houston.org. |
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