05/07/2010
8:00 pm
Simsbury Public Library Program Room
Jazz pianist, composer, educator and author Noah Baerman studied jazz at New Haven’s Educational Center for the Arts and at Jackie McLean’s Artists’ Collective in Hartford. He has earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in Jazz Studies from Rutgers University, while performing extensively in and around New York. From 1994-1999, he co-led the quartet Positive Rhythmic Force, performing throughout the east coast and recording two CDs. Since then he’s participated in numerous recordings as a sideman and under his own name. Noah has been nationally recognized in such publications as JazzTimes, Jazziz, Jazz Critics (Japan) and All About Jazz – New York. In 2008 he released the trio album Bliss and was awarded a “New Works” grant from Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation. Noah, also a member of the collective quintet Playdate, will release its eponymous first album in 2009. He teaches privately and at several institutions including Wesleyan University, CCSU and Charter Oak State College. His teaching style has been codified through a series of well-regarded instructional books published by the Alfred Publishing Company. Noah received First Prize (jazz category) in the Billboard Song Contest and in the Unisong Contest, as well as “ASCAPlus Awards” from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers every year since 2004.
The concert is free, but seating is limited. Please register by calling 860-658-7663 or sign up online at www.simsburylibrary.info and click “calendar”.