The spring series opens on March 29 with multi–Grammy winning pianist-composer Billy Childs in a duo performance, with bassist Dave Robaire. Childs has been a frequent featured artist on the Athenaeum series going back to 1996, when he debuted in another duo performance, with trumpeter Oscar Brashear, and remains one of the most diversely prolific and acclaimed artists working in music today. His canon of original compositions and arrangements garnered him the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), a composer’s award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015), a Chamber Music America composer’s grant (2006), sixteen Grammy nominations, and five Grammy awards—most recently, for Best Jazz Instrumental Album (Rebirth) in 2018. Previously, he had won a Grammy in 2015 for Best Arrangements, Instrumental and Vocal for “New York Tendaberry,” featuring Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma, on his highly successful release Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. Other Grammy wins include Best Instrumental Composition for “The Path Among the Trees” (2011) and “Into the Light” (2005) from his much-heralded jazz/chamber releases Autumn: In Moving Pictures and Lyric. DownBeat magazine stated, “Childs’ jazz/chamber group has taken the jazz-meets-classical format to a new summit.”
INTERVIEW with BILLY CHILDS | available online at the following link: http://jazz88.us/MP3/IA032821Childs.mp3.
"Inside Art" radio host Dave Drexler interviewed Billy Childs about his current release Acceptance and his upcoming concert in the La Jolla Athenaeum's streaming jazz series. The program airs Sunday, Mar 28th at 9:30am PT on KSDS-FM, Jazz 88.3 (streaming live at www.jazz88.org).
The concert will be livestreamed via YouTube Live. Ticket holders will receive a link prior to the concert via email. Ticket holders will have access to view the concerts for 48 hours after each livestream event.