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09/09 Tuesday

7:00 PM Andrei Matorin (boston music festival)

The Boston Globe calls Brazilian-born Andrei Matorin an "emerging jazz violinist" and featured the Andrei Matorin Quartet in their Picks-of-the-Week column earlier this year next to the likes of jazz greats such as Bill Charlap, Jim Hobbs, and John Patitucci. As a composer, Andrei’s music seamlessly blends the harmonic and rhythmic intensity of jazz with the emotion and sensitivity of classical music while always alluding to the soaring melodies of his native Brazil. As a student at Berklee College of Music, he has been honored with Berklee's Achievement Award on two separate occasions.

Andrei Matorin is also an alumnus of Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead 2008 Program at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, an exclusive program that "identifies outstanding, emerging jazz artists in their mid-teens and twenties" from an international pool of applicants. Look out for his debut album available February 2009.

For more information please visit: http://www.andreimatorin.com/

10:00 PM Andy Voelker & Kompany (Boston Music Festival)

Saxophonist and Composer Andy Voelker is well versed in a variety of musical styles. Originally from Bricktown, NJ, Andy developed his writing, arranging, recording and performing skills with the New Jersey-based funk band, BROWN. After being awarded a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music, Andy moved to Boston, and found himself under the tutelage of George Garzone, Frank Tiberi, Danny Harrington, and Frank Wilkins. Since moving to Boston, Andy has found no shortage of performing opportunities, playing or recording with Dennis DiBlasio, Cameron Brown, James Merenda, Jose Castillo, Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble, Event Horizon, and his own group, the Andy Voelker Trio.
http://www.gypsyschaeffer.com/

11:00 PM Sean Berry Group

Saxophonist, composer, and educator Sean Berry is a transplant from Three Forks, Washington. Sean has been performing and teaching in New England since 1998. As a child, he was fortunate enough to find an excellent first teacher and dedicated mentor in Brent Jensen, a former student of the great Lee Konitz. After high school, Sean moved on to study with noted composer and saxophonist Gregory Yasinitsky at Washington State University. Recently, Sean completed his masters degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Danilo Pérez, Charlie Banacos, Jerry Bergonzi, John McNeil, Bob Moses, and Cecil McBee. Sean has performed with jazz greats such as James Williams, Clark Terry, Bobby Shew, Danilo Pérez, Oliver Lake, Frank Mantooth, Jim McNeely, Ingrid Jensen, Matt Wilson, Gary Burton, and Rebecca Paris, and maintains an active freelance schedule playing jazz, funk, rock, and blues. In addition to being a member of the Boston-based Chuck Gabriel Septet and the Makanda Project (along with local luminaries Charlie Kohlhase, Yoron Israel, and John Lockwood), Sean also performs regularly with his own trio and quartet, and maintains a large studio teaching woodwinds.
http://www.myspace.com/seanberrymusic