Billy Childs Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

$25/Advance $30/Door

Supported in part by Western Jazz Presenters Network
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts

As a pianist, composer, and arranger, Billy Childs has forged an impressive body of work over the past four decades, often drawing together the worlds of jazz and classical music. A three-time Grammy award-winner for his compositions and arrangements, Childs has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and was chosen for the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. His creative collaborations have encompassed a dynamic range of artists, from Yo-Yo Ma to Sting, from Jack DeJohnette to the Detroit Symphony. Childs' latest recording, a tribute to the late songwriter Laura Nyro, is Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro....

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$25/Advance $30/Door

Supported in part by Western Jazz Presenters Network
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts

As a pianist, composer, and arranger, Billy Childs has forged an impressive body of work over the past four decades, often drawing together the worlds of jazz and classical music. A three-time Grammy award-winner for his compositions and arrangements, Childs has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and was chosen for the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. His creative collaborations have encompassed a dynamic range of artists, from Yo-Yo Ma to Sting, from Jack DeJohnette to the Detroit Symphony. Childs' latest recording, a tribute to the late songwriter Laura Nyro, is Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro.

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