Lakes Area Music Festival Winter Series – Loki Karuna Curation

Artistic Advisor Loki Karuna (formerly Garrett McQueen) brings his unique and thoughtful perspective with another chamber music curation. Historically, the art form known as “jazz” has largely been kept separate from the rest of the classical canon, but as time goes on more people are understanding the classic nature of this uniquely American musical tradition. In this program curated by Loki Karuna, audiences will experience the breadth of jazz’s influence on the European chamber music canon, contemporary composition, and everything in between, as a means of understanding jazz as one of the world’s “classical” traditions. Featuring the versatility of the saxophone alongside piano and strings.

Program:

• DAVE BRUBECK:Take Five
• DAMIAN GETER:Neo Soul, for String Quartet
• EUGENE BOZZA:Aria for Saxophone and Piano
• MICHAEL MALIS:“Five Stations” for Saxophone, Piano, and String Quartet

Featured Artists:

• Loki Karuna, Artistic Advisor
• Becca Tank, Saxophone
• Mikael Darmanie, Piano
• Ben Odhner, Violin
• Sabrina Bradford, Violin
• Grace Takeda, Viola
• Scott Lykins, Cello

This concert marks the final cycle of the Lakes Area Music Festival’s Winter Series of chamber music in Minneapolis (Woman’s Club of Minneapolis) and Brainerd (Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts). Learn more about this event HERE.