Recovering Classical Guitarists Try Singing
- May 16, 2015
- 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Kinloch Nelson's Guitar Artistry Concerts:
Recovering Classical Guitarists Try Singing w/ Matt Cochran & Kinloch Nelson
a program of original music for fingerstyle guitar, voice, oboe and violin
Kinloch Nelson and Matt Cochran with Susie Kieren (oboe), Hee Sagong (violin)
Saturday, May 16th 8PM (doors at 7:30pm)
Bernunzios Uptown Music
122 East Ave Rochester, NY
8 PM (doors 7:30)
$15 (Students $10)
585-473-6140
Kinloch Nelson has been playing guitar for fun since 1956, seriously since 1968 and professionally since 1973. Born in 1950, Nelson grew up during the tail end of the jazz era, the high point of the broadway-to-the-movies musicals, the blooming of TV with its youth-focused American Bandstand and emphasis on cowboys and Indians, the heyday of AM radio and the beginning of "underground" FM radio. The ever expanding music landscape in these years served as the backdrop to Nelson's guitar explorations, and the foundation of a 45 year performance career playing folk, classical, R and B, rock, country, ragtime, and jazz music in bands, ensembles, and as a solo performer.
Recently Nelson has been an in-demand player at the Healdsburg, Montreal, Newport, Miami and Woodstock Guitars Festivals. He can be heard as guitar demonstrator on the websites of noted guitar builders Ken Parker (Parker "Fly" Guitars), Bruce Petros (Acoustic Guitar Magazine award winner), Julius Borges (founder of Newport Guitar Festival) , Bernie Lehmann, Bryan Galloup and David MacCubbin. Nelson can be heard on Heartland Records, BKNjr Records, and Sampler Records.
Matthew Cochran has devoted his life to embracing, then transcending musical traditions. Praised by Soundboard Magazine for his “commanding stage presence” and “intimate expression”, Cochran was trained in classical guitar performance at the Eastman School of Music. Early success with the critically acclaimed Tantalus Guitar Quartet placed Cochran in prestigious international festivals and concert halls alongside luminaries of the guitar world such as Pepe Romero, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Kazuhito Yamashita. The group earned praise for their “perfect ensemble” (Reinischer Post, Germany), and "strong nuanced and textured performances” (Classical Guitar).
But Cochran found that the rigidity of strictly classical performances limited the scope of his musical expression. Upon leaving Tantalus Quartet, Cochran embarked on a journey of musical self-discovery that explored the richness and diversity of the American Diaspora: jazz, bluegrass, Country Western, the great American songwriters from the Tin Pan Alley to Sondheim, and ultimately the plaintive traditional music of his native Appalachia.
The result of this journey is a synthesis of styles artfully displayed on Vapor Trail from a Paper Plane, Cochran’s debut recording as a singer-songwriter-composer. Americana chart-topper Grant Peeples proclaimed “Vapor Trail from a Paper Plane is a Masterpiece” and No Depression raved “[the] pure emotive quality of Cochran’s music pulls you into its embrace and empties your heart with every sigh…artfulness in composition is almost a trademark of Cochran’s work.”
In 2015, Cochran will unveil the Matthew Cochran Trio, a crossover project that incorporates elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and features percussionist Matthew Witten and jazz bassist Emiliano Lasansky. Cochran is currently working on his follow-up to Vapor Trail from a Paper Plane, an ambitious song cycle titled Push Rock Up Hill.
http://matthewcochranguitar.com/