Mark O'Connor Thirty-Year Retrospective Celebrates Fiddler's Career with Guest Bluegrass Virtuoso Artists Chris Thile, Bryan Sutton, Byron House.Entertainment Editors/Music Writers NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003 O'Connor Returns to His Musical Roots with OMAC OMAC Open Modular Architecture Control(ler) OMAC One-Key CBC Mac OMAC One Man Army Corps OMAC Observational Metahuman Activity Construct OMAC Ocala Municipal Arts Commission (Florida) Records Double-CD Package in Stores Nov. 11, 2003 Grammy award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow. winning violinist, fiddler and composer Mark O'Connor This article is about the American musician. For the English football (soccer) player, see Mark O'Connor (footballer). Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961 in Seattle, Washington) is widely considered to be the most prominent fiddler of his generation, and a returns to his fiddling, bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. and newgrass roots celebrating three decades as a professional musician with the release of Mark O'Connor Thirty-Year Retrospective, a live concert recording featuring fellow virtuoso instrumentalists mandolinist Chris Thile Chris Thile (IPA: /ˈθiːlɪ/) (February 20, 1981) is an American musician, best known as mandolinist and vocalist for the progressive acoustic trio, Nickel Creek. , guitarist Bryan Sutton and doublebassist Byron House. The OMAC Records release (OMAC-5) will be in stores November 11, 2003. The two compact discs feature more than two and one-half hours of music with repertoire drawn from virtually every era of O'Connor's career. Mark O'Connor Thirty-Year Retrospective includes tunes from his fiddle contest years as a 12-year-old star on the festival circuit and from his first six albums on Rounder Records during his teen years; music from Strength in Numbers, the legendary gathering of some of bluegrass and newgrass' finest acoustic musicians; selections from his years as a Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . artist -- years that produced his landmark Heroes album and his Grammy winning New Nashville Cats recording, a CD that featured 57 of Nashville's greatest session musicians and artists. From his most recent years as a solo recording artist for the Sony Classical label, O'Connor reworks music from Appalachia Waltz and Grammy-winning Appalachian Journey, his projects with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and doublebassist Edgar Meyer, as well as from his soundtrack album for "Liberty!" the six-part documentary on the American Revolution. He also includes repertoire he performs with his Hot Swing Trio. Chris Thile, widely heralded as one of the finest mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. players in the world, is leader of the award-winning band Nickel Creek. At age 12, he released his first album, Leading Off. He regularly tours with Nickel Creek, winning awards and media attention from publications including the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times and Time magazine. Bryan Sutton burst on the music scene as a member of Ricky Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder band, but left in 1999 to devote himself to recording work. One of today's elite session guitarists, his work is heard on recordings by the Dixie Chicks and Dolly Parton par·ton n. Any of the point particles believed to be a constituent of hadrons, now known as quarks. No longer in technical use. [part(icle) + -on1.] . Byron House, an in-demand bass player on the Nashville recording scene, has contributed his talents to recordings by Amy Grant, Nickel Creek, Emmylou Harris and the Dixie Chicks. In recent years, O'Connor has worked largely in the classical arena, composing and performing his own symphonic works with orchestras in the United States and abroad, as well as performing with his Hot Swing jazz trio, his Appalachia Waltz Trio and in solo recital. His first jazz album, Hot Swing! (OMAC Records - 4), a tribute to his friend and mentor Stephane Grappelli reintroduced him to today's jazz audiences and led to the recording of In Full Swing (SK 87889), released in 2002 on Sony's Odyssey label. In recent months, O'Connor has performed two world premieres of his work: The Fallen is a composition he premiered at the prestigious Bridgehampton Festival in New York in August, and in September in London, he premiered his Concerto No. 6: "Old Brass" with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is an English chamber orchestra. The group was founded in London by Sir Neville Marriner, attracting some of the finest players in London, many of whom considered themselves as refugees from conductors. at Royal Albert Hall. His web site address is www.markoconnor.com. NOTES EDITORS: To obtain a review copy of Mark O'Connor Thirty-Year Retrospective, please email ejpryor@aol.com with "Mark O'Connor" in the subject line. High-resolution digital images are available. |
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