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Sunday, May 6, 2007, 7pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee
$8 general, $7 students and seniors, $6 members
Matt Turner’s formal undergraduate studies were completed at Lawrence
University followed by a Master of Music degree in Third Stream Studies
(now the Contemporary Improvisation program) at the New England
Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Dave Holland, Geri Allen
and Joe Maneri, and where he was the recipient of a Distinction in
Performance Award. Matt Turner served on the faculty for several years
at Lawrence University teaching composition, jazz piano, jazz strings,
and improvisation. As a leader, Turner’s recordings have appeared on
Stellar, O.O. Discs, Asian Improv, Penumbra, Fever Pitch, Geode,
Tautology, and Meniscus Records. As an improvising cellist Matt Turner
has been recording and touring with pianist Bill Carrothers’ Armistice
1918 project for the past three years. Equally skilled as a pianist,
he performs in a myriad of styles and has shared the stage with Cape
Breton fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster, avant-garde pianist Marilyn
Crispell, country musician Wanda Vick, singer-songwriter LJ Booth, and
jazz musician Bobby McFerrin to name a few and has performed in Canada,
Europe and Asia. He appears on over 70 recordings on Sketch/Harmonia
Mundi, CRI, Music and Arts, Accurate, Polyvinyl, Cadence Jazz and
others. Matt Turner is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
This is Matt Turner’s fourth performance for the Alternating Currents
Live series, but his first in a number of years. He has performed here
as part of the Scott Fields Trio with Vincent Davis, in an evening of
improvised duets with British saxophonist John Butcher, and, most
recently in 1999, collaborated with flautist Camilla Hoitenga in
performances of compositions by Yehuda Yannay and Kaija Saariaho.
 This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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