Pianist

Celebrated for its vibrant athleticism, humor, and theatricality, as well as its commitment to collaboration, Dance Heginbotham performs an evening of work in collaboration with Ethan Iverson, the critically acclaimed jazz composer, pianist, and Blue Note records recording artist. The program features Easy Win (2015), a delightful ode to the repetition, drama and humor of a dance class. The work is followed by The Understudies (2022); set to a violin and piano duet, The Understudies was praised by The Boston Globe as “heartbreaking, suspenseful” and “simply, beautiful in its beautiful simplicity.” The grand finale is Dance Sonata (2022), Heginbotham’s joyous new work set to Iverson’s jazzy, four-part composition.

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Dance Heginbotham

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Mark Padmore “…did not so much sing this music as inhabit it,” is how the New York Times sums up the British tenor’s inherent ability to capture character and emotion in moving performances of a wide range of music. “It’s all about poetry and communication and putting the music across. It’s often in intimate situations where you’re best able to do that,” he told SF Classical Voice. Premising playful content on music that’s often familiar, composer-pianist Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus. While DownBeat calls him “a passionate dynamo at the crossroads of jazz and classical music,” The Wall Street Journal has also described his playing as “austere and elegant.”

Ethan Iverson

Pianist

Events

Mar 25, 2023

Dance Heginbotham · Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 16, 2022

Mark Padmore - tenor and Ethan Iverson - piano · San Francisco Performances

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