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9-20-2002

Guest Artist Recital: Sherrie Maricle & Five PlayFive Play

Sherrie Maricle

Karolina Strassmayer

Anant Cohen

Chihiro Yamanaka

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Recommended CitationFive Play; Maricle, Sherrie; Strassmayer, Karolina; Cohen, Anant; Yamanaka, Chihiro; and Ueda, Noriko, "Guest Artist Recital: SherrieMaricle & Five Play" (2002). All Concert & Recital Programs. 2548.https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/2548

AuthorsFive Play, Sherrie Maricle, Karolina Strassmayer, Anant Cohen, Chihiro Yamanaka, and Noriko Ueda

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VISITING ARTISTS SERIES 2002-3 "Improvisation and You"

SHERRIE MARICLE AND FIVE PLAY Sherrie Maricle, drums/leader

Karolina Strassrnayer, alto saxophone/flute Anant Cohen, tenor saxophone/flute/clarinet

Chihiro Yamanaka, piano Noriko Ueda, bass

Program to be selected from the following tunes on the On the Brink cd and material <mm.posed and arranged for the upcoming recording project.

I'll Get By , Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert

I've Got the World on a String Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen

How Insensitive Antonio Carlos Jobirn

On the Brink Jerry Bergonzi

Medley I'm A Fool to Want You Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Frank Sinatara In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning Bob Hilliard and David MJ This Love of Mine Frank Sinatra, Sol Parker, Henry Sanicola--

Scatterbrain Johnny Burke, Carl Bean, Kahn Keene, Frankie Masters

Shifting Down Kenny Dorham

Like Someone in Love Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen

Some Nerve John Scofield

Someone Nice Like You Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley

Momma Flossie Al Cohn, Zoot Sims

How Deep is the Ocean Irving Berlin

I Believe in You Frank Loess

Ford Hall Friday, September 20, 2002

8:15 p.m.

tHE ARTISTS

A spirited new quintet has arrived in the music world. It is a group steeped in the history of jazz but infused with the progressive harmonies of today. Like the Benny Goodman Quartet, Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five, Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats, Tommy Dorsey and the '"":lam Bake Seven, and Woody Herman's Woodchoppers, Five Play is .iso derived from a larger aggregation. The critically acclaimed jazz

orchestra Sherrie Maricle and Diva has selected five of its "all-stars" to carry small group jazz into the next century.

Although the group is based in New York City, Sherrie Maricle is the group's only American. The remaining personnel create a miniature "United Nations" of jazz: Karoline Strassmayer hails from Austria, Anat Cohen from Israel, and Chihiro Yamanaka and Noriko Ueda from Japan. This unique blend of cultures has helped create the fresh and exciting sound of Five Play. The group's repertoire is primarily comprised of original arrangements of traditional standards in a contemporary, hard-driving style. Five Play's premier recording, On the Brink (Arbors Records), was voted numberl by Nat Hentoff in Jazz Times' 1999 Year in Review issue.

Sherrie Maricle was born in Buffalo, New York, but later moved to mdicott, where she began studying snare drum in the sixth grade. After

oeing "mesmerized by Buddy Rich and his Killer Force Orchestra," jazz drums became her focus. While she was an undergraduate at Binghamton University she began playing professionally in a wide variety of musical situations. Upon earning her Bachelor of Arts degree, she moved to New York City and completed a Master of Arts degree in Jazz Performance and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Performance/Composition at New York University (NYU).

From the drumset Dr. Maricle leads her big band Diva and her quintet Five Play. Her ensembles have performed at many of the world's most acclaimed music venues which include: Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hollywood Bowl, the SS Norway and QE2 Jazz Cruises, and jazz festivals in Pori, Finland; Berlin, Germany; Rome, Italy; and Bern, Switzerland. Diva has been featured twice m CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. She performs with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops Orchestra, and is also the Education .:::oordinator for the orchestra's Salute to Music Program. With the New York Pops she often travels to Japan and Korea. The Pops has performed the world premiere of her orchestral piece, "Touch of the Earth."

As a composer, performer, and teacher, Sherrie has received several honors which include the Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Contributions and Achievements in the Arts, a grant from Meet the Composer, a Doctoral Fellowship from New York University, and was voted the NYU Music Teacher of the Year in both 1998 and 2000. She is the Director of Percussion Studies at New York University, and is an active clinician for Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, and Vi Firth Drum Sticks. Sherrie is also an active freelance performer and published composer I arranger in both the classical and jazz mediums.

Growingup in a tiny village in the heart of the Austrian Alps doesn't exactly set the stage for a career in jazz. But upon listening to alto saxophone giant Cannonball Adderley, Karolina Strassmayer was captivated by the intensity and energy of the music and set out to learn all she could about jazz. After completing the Master of Music degree in Jazz Performance from the Musikhochschule Graz, Austria, Karolina was chosen "Outstanding Musician of the Year" and received a full scholarship to study at the Mannes/New School Jazz Program in New York City.

Upon graduation Karolina was immediately recruited to work with the Diva big band as its lead alto saxophonist and featured soloist. She has been featured with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and Bobby: Sanabria's Afro-Cuban Jazz Dream Big Band. The band's Live & · Clave recording (recorded at Birdland) was nominated for a Gramm Award and voted "One of the Top Five Albums of the Year" by the Annual Critics Poll 2000 of Jazz Times as well as "Best Afro-Cuban Jazz Album of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association. Other big band work includes the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Chico O'Farrill's Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Michael Mossman's NYC Latin Jazz Orchestra, Lew Anderson's All-American Big Band and the Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra.

Karolina has also performed and recorded with Mark Murphy, Nancy Wilson, Diane Shuur, Sheila Jordan, Lewis Nash, Phil Woods, Frank Wess, Chico Hamilton, Candido Camero, Ray Anderson, Art Farmer, Buddy de Franco, Bobby Shew and many others. Her personal and unique voice as an improviser and composer can be heard in her new and exciting group KLARO!"

Originally from Tel Aviv, Israel, tenor saxophonist Anat Cohen start performing at age 13. She has been a presence en the Israeli music scene ever since then, in both classical and popular music, en radio and television appearances and studio recordings with top Israeli bandleaders. After a stint en sax and clarinet in the Israeli Air Force

Big Band, she came to the Berklee College of Music where she recently received her Bachelor of Arts in Professional Music.

Anat has performed with Dave Liebman, Rachel Z, Arnie Lawrence, Jamey Haddad, Bobby Sanabria, Cindy Blackman and Ingrid Jensen. In September 1997, she performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, representing Berklee with the Berklee Monterey Quartet, and recently came back from a tour in Japan, representing Berklee as well. Anat appears together with her two brothers en BMG's Berklee CD, Summa Cum Jazz. Anat is a winner of the 1998 Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition.

A native of Japan, Chihiro Yamanaka began to play piano at age four. After eight years of studying classical piano, she won the grand prize of the Gumma Fresh Talent competition in Japan. She graduated from Berklee College of Music (2000) where she received numerous awards, including Downbeat magazine's "Outstanding Performance" award. Chihiro also won the International Association of Jazz Educators' "Sisters in Jazz" competition, and toured Europe with the group in 2000. She has performed with Gary Burton, George Russell, Curtis Fuller, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ed Thigpen, and George Benson.

Noriko Ueda, originally from Hyogo, Japan, has a varied musical background. She has studied classical piano since the age of 4, been playing electric bass since she was 16, and at age 19 took up the acoustic bass, which is currently her main instrument. Her classical voice studies led to a diploma from the Osaka College of Music. Noriko graduated in 1997 from the Berklee College of Music with a degree in Jazz Composition; she was a B.E.S.T. scholarship recipient there.

Noriko has performed with Joe Chambers, Othello Molineaux, Makoto Ozone, Joe Hunt, Bob Moses, Sam Newsome, Joel Frahm, George Colligan and many others. She has been a member of the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop directed by Manny Album and Jim McNeely since 1999. The New York Jazz Orchestra, at the BMI Annual Showcase Concert (2000), performed one of her original compositions, which she arranged and conducted. She has an impressive list of performance and recording credits in film and television, which is much too long to mention. Noriko has lived in Brooklyn, New York since January of

· 1998, where she's been performing, composing, and enjoying life.

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