BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250813T174757EDT-3313Vt0g6B@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250813T214757Z DESCRIPTION:This week\, the forum welcomes:\n\nJOHN HOLLENBECK\, drums | Th e Songs Trilogy : Re-arranging “Pop” Music\n\n\n \n\nIt’s traditional\, wh en paying compliment to drummers\, to draw comparisons with the octopus\, implying agility beyond the means of a paltry pair of human hands. But whe n considering John Hollenbeck\, the multi-limbed creature that seems most appropriate to invoke is the mythical hydra\; for while Hollenbeck is cert ainly no stranger to rhythmic intricacy\, it’s ideas that seem to spring f orth like so many heads\, two more arising as one falls away.\n\nHollenbec k is a composer of music uncategorizable beyond the fact of being always i dentifiably his. A conceptualist able to translate the traditions of jazz and new music into a fresh\, eclectic\, forward-looking language of his ow n invention\, intellectually rewarding yet ever accessibly vibrant. A drum mer and percussionist possessed of a playful versatility and a virtuosic w it. Most of all\, a musical thinker – whether putting pen to paper or conj uring spontaneous sound – allergic to repetition\, forever seeking to surp rise himself and his audiences.\n\n \n\nHollenbeck received degrees in per cussion and jazz composition from the Eastman School of Music before movin g to New York City in the early 1990s. He was profoundly shaped by the men torship of two hugely influential artists: trombonist/arranger/composer Bo b Brookmeyer and composer/choreographer Meredith Monk. His relationship wi th Brookmeyer reached back to the age of 14\, when he attended the SUNY Bi nghamton Summer Jazz Workshop\, and continued at Eastman\, through NEA-fun ded composition study\, and finally on the bandstand with Brookmeyer’s New Art Orchestra and in the studio with Brookmeyer and trumpet great Kenny W heeler. For Monk\, Hollenbeck composed and performed the percussion scores for five of her works: “Magic Frequencies\,” “Mercy\,” “The Impermanence Project\,” “Songs of Ascension” and “On Behalf of Nature.”\n\nHollenbeck’s awards and honors include six GRAMMY nominations\; the 2012 Doris Duke Pe rforming Artist Award\, the 2010 ASCAP Jazz Vanguard Award and a 2007 Gugg enheim Fellowship\; winning the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Contes t in 1995 and 2002\; Meet the Composer’s Grants in 1995 and 2001\; and a R ising Star Arranger win in the 2012 and 2013 DownBeat Critics’ Polls as we ll as in 2011 for the JHLE as Rising Star Big Band. John was a professor o f Jazz Drums and Improvisation at the Jazz Institute Berlin from 2005-2016 and in 2015 joined the faculty of 鶹ɫƬ’s Schulich School of Music.\n DTSTART:20220930T160000Z DTEND:20220930T180000Z LOCATION:C-304\, Strathcona Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\, 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Schulich Jazz Area Forum: John Hollenbeck URL:/music/channels/event/schulich-jazz-area-forum-joh n-hollenbeck-342445 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR