Piano: Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Horace Silver, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Phineas Newborn Jr., Wynton Kelly, Art Tatum, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Chick Corea, Mulgrew Miller, Gene Harris, Red Garland, Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett, Geoffrey Keezer, McCoy Tyner, George Shearing
Composition, conception and inspiration: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bela Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra," Aaron Copland, Ludwig van Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, John Coltrane, Brahms' Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky - the last sixty seconds of the "Overture to Romeo and Juliet" are absolutely heart-wrenching, Ravel, Mahler, Wagner's Prelude to "Tristan und Isolde," Eric Satie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Charles Ives' prophetic and haunting "The Unanswered Question," Debussy, John Lennon, William Shakespeare's Sonnets, T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" and "Four Quartets," Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," William Carlos Williams - EVERYTHING, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance", Robert Frost "Mending Wall," Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass," Theodore Roethke "The Waking," William Blake "Songs of Experience"
Pianist Chris White hails from Toronto, Canada. After obtaining a B.A. in English from the University of Toronto, Chris decided to focus his studies entirely on music. In 1997 he attended Indiana Universitys School of Music and pursued his Masters degree in Jazz Studies, graduating with a Phi Kappa Lamda award (National Music Honors Society) and elected to the Who's Who of American College Students in 1999.
Chris has been a musician full-time since graduating from the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, in 2000. Gaining valuable experience in the Indianapolis area, Chris performed with The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold and Oliver Nelson, Jr. In August 2000 Chris was invited to perform in the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia hosted by James Moody, Rufus Reid and David Baker.
Currently Chris is an instructor of jazz piano, jazz history and jazz theory at Loyola University, is a faculty instructor at Lake Forest College and is on the faculty of the Shell Lake Arts Center summer Jazz and Combo camp in Wisconsin.
Chris is an active journalist, writing for the allaboutjazz.com and chicagojazz magazine. He continues to be a busy freelance musician in the Chicago area, performing at countless venues in the area such as The House of Blues, Navy Pier, Nordstroms, The Peninsula Hotel, the Palmer House Hilton, and many more.
Chris has had two jazz piano arrangements published recently in "Piano Today." Oh, and his new favorite TV show is "30 Rock." Have you seen it? Funny stuff!
That orchestra I was working on over this last summer? I finished it and it's going to be played in Eau Claire by our Youth Symphony in May!!! I'm very excited; once I get a CD of it, I'll have to have you listen to it!
Just thought I'd tell you the news, hope all is well with you!
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Blessed Christmas Eve to you, my friend! I hope you are having a wonderful Holiday as well! May your New Year be filled with Blessings of Peace, Joy, Good Health, and Success!!!!
Haven't spoken in awhile, just thought I'd say hi!
Hope things are going well with you; can't wait until next year. I'm practicing my scales everyday now, so it's driving my mother bonkers to hear the same scale played so many times. :P
Hoping all is well! -Kimderly {Canadian Border Patrol}
I JUST got back from Egypt; I have so many pictures/stories to share, but I'll have to upload them later because I need to go sleep. (A 48 hour day is not the way to go for a more energetic lifestyle!! :P) Thought you'd want to know; I'll be sure to let you know when I update my blog with stories from the trip!
