Ever charismatic, prolific, and inspired, GRAMMY-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. Anat has been declared Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007 and has also been named the Top Clarinetist, Rising Star, and Jazz Artist of the Year by Downbeat Magazine. The tentet(rhythm section, horns, vibraphone, cello, and accordion) performs tunes from their recent album Happy Song which draws influence from Brazilian music and African grooves to vintage swing and touching ballads.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2261/thumbnail.jp

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Lev-Ari, Oded

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musicKSU.com 1Anat Cohen TentetMusical Director Oded Lev-AriSaturday, November 9, 2019 | 8:00 PMDr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center, Morgan HallSCHOOL   MUSICof heardwhere PASSION isartsKSU presents:2 Kennesaw State University School of MusicheardHAPPY SONGANAT COHENVALSA PARA ALICEANAT COHENOH BABYOWEN MURPHYANAT’S DOINAANAT COHENLOROEGBERTO GISMONTITRILLS & THRILLSODED LEV-ARIKENEDOUGOU FOLYNEBA SOLOProgramAnat Cohen TentetMusical Director Oded Lev-AriAudio/video recording and flash photography is prohibited at School of Music concerts.We welcome all guests with special needs and offer the following services: easy access, companion seating locations, accessible restrooms, and assisted listening devices.  Please contact a patron services representative at 470-578-6650 to request services. musicKSU.com 3About the TentetWith The Anat Cohen Tentet, woodwind virtuoso Anat Cohen brings audiences an evocative and exciting experience centered around the clarinet. Both on stage and on their critically acclaimed releases, Happy Song and 2019’s Triple Helix, the Tentet weaves a tapestry of sounds, freeing Cohen to explore the full range of the clarinet’s dynamics and demonstrate its vastly expressive character. As JazzTimes says, “With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing – musically – with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.” The Tentet’s repertoire draws on Anat’s diverse musical loves, from Brazilian music to African grooves, and from vintage swing to touching ballads. Above all, the Tentet is another synergistic collaboration between Anat and co-pro-ducer/co-arranger Oded Lev-Ari, who is her partner in Anzic Records and who has been a kindred spirit since their high school days in Israel.The perennial winner of “Clarinetist of the Year” titles from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and the Jazz Journalists Association, Fresh Air’s Terry Gross credits Cohen with “bringing the clarinet to the world” and The New York Times hails her a “Master.”4 Kennesaw State University School of MusicAnat Cohen“Anat does what all authentic musi-cians do: She tells stories from her own experiences that are so deeply felt that they are very likely to connect listen-ers to their own dreams, desires and longings.”- Nat HentoffEver charismatic, prolific and inspired, Gram-my-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen has won hearts and minds the world over with her expressive virtuosity and de-lightful stage presence. The New York Times writes, “Ms. Cohen on the clarinet was a revelation. Using the clarinet’s upper register, she could evoke infectious joy. In the lower register, her playing could conjure a deep, soulful melancholy. On up-tempo numbers, her improvisations weren’t just bebop fast; they had a clarity and deep intelligence that is really quite rare. She made it look effortless, even as she was playing the most technically difficult of all the reed instruments... she took my breath away.”     Anat has been declared Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Associa-tion every year since 2007 and has also been named the top clarinetist in both the readers and critics polls in DownBeat for multiple years running. That’s not to mention years of being named Rising Star in the soprano and tenor saxo-phone categories in DownBeat, as well as Jazz Artist of the Year. In 2009, ASCAP awarded Anat a Wall of Fame prize for composition and musicianship, among other honors. As The Chicago Tribune has said about Anat, “The lyric beauty of her tone, easy fluidity of her technique and extroverted manner of her delivery make this music accessible to all.”     Since 2005, Anat’s series of releases via her Anzic Records label have seen the clarinetist-saxophonist range from infectious swingers to lilting balladry, from small groups to larger ensembles and back again, exploring a universe of music along the way.Visit the Live Streaming page on musicKSU.com to watch live broadcasts of many of our concerts and to view the full schedule of upcoming live streamed events.Connect with the Kennesaw State University School of Music!/musicKSU          @musicKSU         /musicKSU         @musicKSUmusicKSU.com 5     One June 14, 2019 the Anat Cohen Tentet reached a new crest in its evo-lution with its second recording - Triple Helix. The album’s centerpiece is a three-movement concerto composed for Cohen and the Tentet, by her longtime collaborator Oded Lev-Ari, the Tentet’s musical director and Cohen’s producer/label partner at Anzic. Commissioned by New York’s Carnegie Hall and Chica-go’s Symphony Center for live world premieres earlier in 2019, “Triple Helix” won raves from The Chicago Tribune as “a work of considerable expressive reach” and a “sensuous tonal palette,” with Cohen “sounding like a musician transformed.” Those qualities are abundantly evident in the album version, con-ducted by Lev-Ari as he also did onstage in New York and Chicago, highlighting Cohen at her most “fresh, sophisticated and daring” (JazzTimes). The Tentet features a vibrant mix of ace New York players – Nadje Noordhuis (Trumpet, Flugelhorn) Nick Finzer (Trombone), Owen Browder (Baritone Saxophone), Christopher Hoffman (Cello), Vitor Gonçalves (piano, accordion), Sheryl Bailey (Guitar), Tal Mashiach (Bass), James Shipp (Vibraphone, Percussion) and Anthony Pinciotti (drums).     In between large ensemble recordings, in March 2018 Anat and the ac-claimed pianist Fred Hersch released their debut duo recording - Live in Healds-burg of which Nate Chinen (WBGO) proclaimed “a beautiful document of mutual exchange, rooted in melody but alert to every possibility”     In October 2017 –Happy Song – the debut release from the Tentet found her drawing on diverse musical loves, from Brazilian music to African grooves, from vintage swing to touching ballads. In many ways, Happy Song carried on from an initial highpoint of her discography, 2007’s sumptuous Noir, which saw Anat weave her various horns through the all-star Anzic Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Lev-Ari. Billboard magazine marveled over the “cinematic feel” of Noir, with The Washington Post praising Lev-Ari’s arrangements as “wonderfully textured and evocative.” The Tentet of Happy Song boasts a different sort of richness, one that’s full but also fleet and fizzing, with an open, jazzy energy. The beautiful arrangements are by both Anat and Lev-Ari, with the latter directing the band.    Earlier in her especially fertile 2017, Anat continued her love affair with Brazil-ian sounds by releasing two albums simultaneously via Anzic: Outra Coisa: The Music of Moacir Santos (with 7-String guitarist Marcello Gonçalves) and Rosa Dos Ventos (with Trio Brasileiro: percussionist Alexandre Lora, 7-String guitarist Douglas Lora and mandolinist Dudu Maia). Both recordings were made in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia and went on to receive Grammy Award nominations in Best World Music and Best Latin Jazz albums. All About Jazz praised both records at length, saying that together they made for “one brilliant bonanza of Brazilian music from one of the greatest clarinetists of our time... Cohen’s magnetism and musicality, married with the accents of Brazil and the skills of her accomplished colleagues, makes for something incredibly special on these dates. Add both of these albums to the glowing list of recordings in her discography.” The praise didn’t only come from the jazz world, with Brazilian Press saying: “Anat is an Israeli who seems like a Brazilian when she plays samba.”6 Kennesaw State University School of Music     Anat was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised into a musical family. She attend-ed the Tel Aviv School for the Arts, the “Thelma Yellin” High School for the Arts and the Jaffa Music Conservatory. Anat began clarinet studies at age 12 and played jazz on clarinet for the first time in the Jaffa Conservatory’s Dixieland band. At 16, she joined the school’s big band and learned to play the tenor saxophone; it was this same year that Anat entered the prestigious Thelma Yellin school, where she majored in jazz. After graduation, she discharged her manda-tory Israeli military service duty from 1993-95, playing tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air Force band.     Through the World Scholarship Tour, Anat was able to attend the Berklee College of Music, where she not only honed her jazz chops but also expanded her musical horizons, developing a deep love and facility for various Latin music styles. During her Berklee years, Anat visited New York City during semester breaks, making a beeline for the West Village club Smalls to soak up a melting pot of jazz, contemporary grooves and world music in a scene that included such future collaborators as Jason Lindner, Omer Avital and Daniel Freedman. Moving to New York in 1999 after graduating from Berklee, Anat spent a decade touring with Sherrie Maricle’s all-woman big band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra; she also worked in such Brazilian groups as the Choro Ensemble and Duduka Da Fonse-ca’s Samba Jazz Quintet, along with performing the music of Louis Armstrong with David Ostwald’s “Gully Low Jazz Band.” Anat soon began to bend ears and turn heads; whether playing clarinet, soprano saxophone or tenor saxophone, she won over the most knowing of jazz sages: Nat Hentoff praised her “bursting sound and infectious beat,” Dan Morgenstern her “gutsy, swinging” style, Ira Gitler her “liquid dexterity and authentic feeling,” and Gary Giddins her musical-ity “that bristles with invention.”     In 2009, Anat became the first Israeli to headline at the Village Vanguard, the setting for perhaps the most celebrated live recordings in jazz history; the occasion yielded the 2010 release Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard, which captured the leader paying tribute to Benny Goodman and leading a hard-swinging combo with all-stars Benny Green, Peter Washington and Lewis Nash. Calling Anat “one to watch,” NPR underscored the contemporary ap-proach the group took to the Goodman book: “Cohen and company treat 1920s and ’30s material with a relatively free hand; when they get rolling in ‘Sweet Georgia Brown,’ her rhythm section echoes the thunder of John Coltrane’s quartet.”      Anat has also recorded four acclaimed albums as part of the 3 Cohens Sextet with her brothers, saxophonist Yuval and trumpeter Avishai: 2003’s One, 2007’s Braid, 2011’s Family and 2013’s Tightrope (with the last three released by Anzic). The three siblings – with Anat the middle child to the elder Yuval and younger Avishai – graced the cover of the January 2012 issue of DownBeat, and among the international acclaim for the recent Tightrope had the Financial Times mar-veling over its “emotional sweep.” The album features the 3 Cohens improvising as an a cappella horn choir as well as teaming with such special guests as Fred Hersch and Christian McBride.musicKSU.com 7     Anat has collaborated regularly with one of her heroes, Cuban-American clarinetist- saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, who introduced her onstage at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex as “one of the greatest players ever of the clarinet.” Having first appeared at the Newport Jazz Fes-tival in 2007, she had the honor of being the music director for the Newport Jazz Festival Now 60! all-star band that toured the U.S. on the occasion of the festival’s 60th anniversary in 2014. In 2017, Anat played all the major European festivals as part of the all-star, all-female band called ARTEMIS alongside the likes of Renée Rosnes and Cécile McLorin Salvant. She has also toured in a duo with acclaimed pianist Fred Hersch, as well as with iconic Cuban singer Omara Portuondo.     However easy Anat makes it seem onstage, the mastery of any great art is a long, elusive challenge, and she teaches the fine points of jazz and the music of Brazil to buddingstudents across North America, including recent residencies at Stanford, Oberlin, Michigan State University, University of California-San Diego, the Centrum Choro Workshop and California Brazil Camp. About her experiences onstage, in the classroom or just engaging with her listeners, Anat says: “Any day when I get to share music with people – other musicians, an audience – feels like a celebration to me.”- Bradley BambargerFor more information on Anat Cohen, including tour dates, music samples, photos, video and more, go to www.anatcohen.com.Please consider a gift to the Kennesaw State University School of Music.https://community.kennesaw.edu/GiveToMusic8 Kennesaw State University School of MusicartsKSU presents: Afro-Cuban Jazz ArtistBrenda NaverreteSaturday, March 21, 2019 at 8 pmAn emerging flagbearer among the vanguard of female Cuban musicians, Afro-Cuban singer, songwriter, and percussionist Brenda Navarrete combines a foundation of Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban influences with el-ements of contemporary world music, originality, and relent-less energy to form her unique sound. Touring internationally and frequently collaborating with Cuba’s notable music elite, the award-winning jazzista is perhaps best known for her skill on the batá, a drum traditionally used in Yoruban spiritual practices that women were once forbidden to play. Presented as part of Kennesaw State University’s 2019-20 Year of Cuba.“A bright new Cuban star has emerged on the world mu-sic scene, and she is a young singer/percussionist named Brenda Navarrete.” – Rhythm PlanetmusicKSU.com 9To make a donationor for more info, contact:Leslie Blackwelllblackwe@kennesaw.edu470-578-6151The School of Music is offering the opportunity for friends and patrons to dedicate a seat in Morgan Concert Hall. Each dedicated seat will be permanently affixed with a plaque bearing your name, business name, or the name of someone you wish to honor.Your contribution of $1000 per seat will immediately impact the programs of the School of Music and help to sustain the exceptional quality of music and live performance at KSU for years to come.Name A Seat in Morgan Concert HallmusicKSU.comSCHOOL    MUSICof 10 Kennesaw State University School of MusicSCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY AND STAFFBrass and PercussionStringsWoodwindsJazzPianoVoiceLeslie J. Blackwell, Interim DirectorJason Casanova, Tuba/EuphoniumPaul Dickinson, Tuba/EuphoniumTom Gibson, TromboneBrian Hecht, Bass TromboneJohn Lawless, Percussion,    Area CoordinatorDoug Lindsey, Trumpet,    Area CoordinatorRyan Moser, TrumpetHollie Pritchard, TromboneMichael Stubbart, PercussionMike Tiscione, TrumpetRichard Williams, HornJames Barket, Double BassElisabeth Remy Johnson, HarpHelen Kim, Violin, Area CoordinatorYinzi Kong, ViolaCharae Krueger, CelloJoseph McFadden, Double BassSean Thrower, Classical GuitarKenn Wagner, ViolinAndrew Brady, BassoonKelly Bryant, FluteBarbara Cook, OboeRobert Cronin, FluteAnthony Georgeson, BassoonCecilia Price, FluteSam Skelton, SaxophoneTodd Skitch, FluteChristina Smith, FluteJustin Stanley, ClarinetElizabeth Koch Tiscione, OboeJohn Warren, Clarinet, Area CoordinatorLuke Weathington, SaxophoneJustin Chesarek,     Jazz Percussion & CombosWes Funderburk, Jazz Ensembles and      Jazz TromboneKarla Harris, Vocal Jazz & ComboTyrone Jackson, Jazz Piano & CombosMarc Miller, Jazz Bass & CombosRob Opitz, Jazz Ensembles and     Jazz TrumpetSam Skelton, Jazz Ensembles and      Jazz Saxophone, Area CoordinatorLuke Weathington,     Jazz Saxophone & CombosTrey Wright, Jazz Guitar & Combos,    Area CoordinatorJudy Cole, Collaborative PianoJulie CoucheronRobert Henry, Area CoordinatorEric Jenkins,     Collaborative Piano CoordinatorHuu MaiJohn Marsh Erika Tazawa, Collaborative PianoEileen MoremenOral MosesNathan MunsonValerie WaltersTodd WedgeHeather WittJana Young, Area CoordinatormusicKSU.com 11Ensembles & ConductorsChamber MusicMusic Education Musicology & Music Appreciation Music Composition, Technology, & Theory School of Music StaffEnsembles in ResidenceLeslie Blackwell, Director of    Choral ActivitiesNancy Conley, Philharmonic OrchestraDavid Kehler, Director of BandsAlison Mann, Women’s ChoirReid Masters, Assistant Director of    Choral ActivitiesEileen Moremen, Opera TheaterOral Moses, Gospel Choir Nathaniel Parker, Director of    Orchestral StudiesJoseph Scheivert,     Assistant Director of Athletic BandsSam Skelton, Director of Jazz StudiesDebra Traficante, Director of    Athletic Bands and    “The Marching Owls”Julie Coucheron, Piano EnsembleCharae Krueger, String Chamber MusicDoug Lindsey, Brass Chamber MusicJohn Warren,     Woodwind Chamber Music Trey Wright, Jazz Combos Judith Beale Janet Boner Nancy Conley Kathleen D. 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Grant Robinson, Associate      Director for AdministrationJoseph Greenway, Assistant Director    for Production & Technology Bobbi Harman, Office Manager Chris Merkle, Associate Director    for Programming & Operations Richard Peluso, Coordinator of Band     Operations and OutreachColleen Radbill, Office Manager Georgia Youth Symphony     Orchestra and ChorusKSU Community & Alumni ChoirKSU Faculty Chamber PlayersKSU Faculty Jazz ParliamentSummit Piano Trio12 Kennesaw State University School of MusicPhilharmonicWednesday, 11/13/2019 at 8 pmWind EnsembleThursday, 11/18/2019 at 8 pmOpera Theatre ScenesSaturday, 11/16/2019 at 8 pm in Scott HallUniversity Band and Wind SymphonyMonday, 11/18/2019 at 8 pmJazz Ensembles I & IIITuesday, 11/19/2019 at 8 pmUpcoming EventsmusicKSU.comTrumpet Festival of the SoutheastJanuary 31 - February 2, 2020Register at musicKSU.com under Clinics and Workshops.Our featured trumpet artists this year are Jose Sibaja, Paul Merkelo, Brian Shaw, and Melvin Jones. Our evening concert artists include the KSU Faculty Jazz Parliament, Georgia Brass Band, and KSU Wind Ensemble. School of Music Holiday ConcertFriday, December 6, 2019 at 8pmBailey Performance Center | Morgan HallKick off your holidays with the School of Music as we celebrate the season and present a festive and exciting program full of holiday favorites performed by the KSU Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and choirs. Tickets for this performance are $15-20. Watch live online at musicKSU.com.

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