Winter Tour 2013

So far Fred’s winter 2013 tour (which began January 28th and will end on April17th) has brought him across the US with stops in Massachusetts, Florida, and Arizona. His next stop is in California where he will be playing a number of private recitals.

During his present tour Fred has been continuing to perform with his “Piano-Cam,” a camera projector setup that allows audiences to watch his hands as he plays the keyboard. This adds to Fred’s already one-of-a-kind recital programs.

Recently Fred has been performing his popular Notes and Footnotes recital program “Of Old and New: a grandfathers tale. This program focuses on music written essentially a hundred years ago, between 1909 and 1914, a turbulent time in music when the Romantic style reigned and yet new approaches were shocking the music world. Fred’s grandfather, David Moyer, a young American pianist, studied in Berlin during these years. Fred relates stories of David who at age seven performed in vaudeville, at nine played for Teddy Roosevelt at the White House, and at eleven moved to Berlin to study with some of the illustrious pianists of the age. His programs include works by David Moyer’s teachers Alberto Jonas, Ernst von Dohnanyi and Ferruccio Busoni as well as works by giants of the time including Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg, Scriabin, Debussy, Bartok and Prokofiev.

Coming soon Fred and his Jazz Arts Trio will be joining forces with saxophonist Billy Novick for a number of special performances that celebrate the music of Dave Brubeck.

Brubeck died on December 5, 2012, one day before his 92nd birthday. A student of Darius Milhaud, he brought a classical music sensibility to jazz. Many of his compositions have become jazz standards, His most famous quartet included the lyrical saxophonist Paul Desmond. Their experiments in unusual meters (“Take Five,” “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” etc.) became hits and made Dave Brubeck a household name. The Dave Brubeck Quartet quartet broke down racial barriers, often playing in venues that had never before presented a racially mixed group. Many of their performances were in colleges and universities, and they are credited with exposing a young generation to jazz.

For these special tribute concerts, the Jazz Arts Trio is joined by master alto saxophonist Billy Novick whose lyrical approach and warm sound is often compared to Paul Desmond.

Compositions to be performed include: Take Five, Blue Rondo a la Turk, Unsquare Dance, It’s a Raggy Waltz, and others.

Performances are currently being offered for the 2013-14 season.