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  • Genre: Blues

    Location LOUISVILLE, Colorado, Un

    Profile Views: 92738

    Last Login: 5/4/2013

    Member Since 2/26/2008

    Website www.lionelyoung.net

    Record Label Unsigned

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  • Bio

    .. .......... .......... .. .. .. .. ..Lionel playing "Hound Dog" with James Taylor, August 6, 2008 @ Red Rocks........ First Place winner (Solo/Duo) at the 2008 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. .. .. http://www.blues.org/ibc/index.php4 .... Born in Rochester, New York, Lionel Young began taking violin lessons at the age of six with Anastasia Jempelis at the Eastman School of Music. His family moved to Pittsburgh where he studied violin with Herbert Greenburgh, who was the associate concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony then and is the concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony now. He won a music scholarship to the University of Indiana where he studied with Josef Gingold. He came back to Pittsburgh and went to Carnegie-Mellon University to study violin with Fritz Seigal, the Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony and served as Concertmaster at University orchestra for two years, one of which was with Keith Lochhart who is now the conductor & music director of the Boston Pops. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Opera-Ballet Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra which commissioned him to play bluegrass and blues for their summer festival and on a tour of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea during the 1988 Summer Olympic Music Festival. .... Throughout his career, Lionel has won numerous awards including: The Young Artist Award (Pittsburgh Symphony); The Concerto Contest (Carnegie-Mellon); The Passamenic Award (Branchwood String Quartet); and the award for the Best Blues Band in Westword's Best of Denver in 1989 for his band The Last Fair Deal. In 1992 he won a position with The Denver Chamber Orchestra and premiered a solo piece by William Hill with them in 1994. His current band, The Lionel Young Band, won back-to-back "Best Blues Band" honors in Westword's Best of Denver 1996 and 1997. In 2008, Lionel won the solo/duo competition at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN. In 2011 he won the IBC again with his band, making him the first and only to do both. .... The Lionel Young Band released it's first CD, "As the Sun Goes Down" in December 1997. The release has received excellent reviews regionally & nationally. .... Among others, Lionel has played in concerts with Count Basie, BB King, Stevie Wonder, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Jimmy Paige/Robert Plant, James Taylor, Doc Severenson, Linda Ronstadt, Living Color, Billy Taylor, Woodie Herman, Stanley Turrentine, Homesick James, Homer Brown, Bob Margolin, Hamlet Bluiett, Otis Taylor, Chief Bae, Los Lobos, Elvin Bishop, Watermelon Slim, Kenny Neal, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Tommy Costro, Eden Brent, Trampled Under Foot, and Johnny Long.
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    1 year ago
  • BLEWZ.hak

    Caught you fella's at the Great Woods music festival last Friday night, great vocal style, hot horns, a grand blending of old and new style sounds. Keep on shakin' the rafters. 

    1 year ago
  • Rich Wilcox and Mississ…

    It was great hearing you & your fine ensemble at the MVBF. I'll talk to Kent Burnside soon & hook you up with Buddy Guy's & the HOB gigs I mentioned. Rich Mon

    1 year ago
  • Lionel Young

    Chantel what does   mean?

    1 year ago
  • rizorkestra one-man-fol…

    "...here on the west coast keepin' music real down-home for y'all..."



    rizorkestra youtube

    2 years ago
  • Nilza Dias Molina

    É muito legal tua página, vou adorar ser seu amigo tambem no facebook, Nilza

    2 years ago
  • angie

    Congratulations on winning the IBC yesterday. Ya'll did a fabulous job!! More good things to come I am sure.

    2 years ago
  • Patricia M. Garcia

    Hey!i love you music


    2 years ago
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  • Peggy J. Sullivan


    Hey,How do you do?

    2 years ago
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