Meyer and Thile Release Album
New Album, DVD, and 15-city tour culminates in performance at Carnegie Hall.
Mandolinist Chris Thile and virtuoso bassist Edgar Meyer are releasing an album of original music in September of 2008. The deluxe edition of the album will have a DVD featuring performances and interviews. A tour is slated as well. Edgar Meyer Throughout a lifetime of performing and composing, Edgar Meyer has turned the double bass into a modern virtuoso instrument that is equally at home in classical music and in the American vernacular. In 1994, Meyer became the first bassist to win the Avery Fisher Prize. He is also a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award and three Grammy Awards. Meyer has found devoted audiences through a vast range of projects, from his own double bass concertos that he continues to perform regularly to recital collaborations with Emanuel Ax and Amy Dorfman and performance and recording projects with artists including Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Mark O’Connor, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Mike Marshall, and many others. The New Yorker calls him “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument”. A Nickel Creek Connection! Attentive Nickel Creek fans will recognize Meyer's name from the credits of the Grammy-winning This Side album. Meyer recorded bass tracks for the Smoothie Song. (The Smoothie Song video takes artistic liberties in showing Metallica bassist joining the group for a music store jam session.) On Tour Sept and Oct of 2008 Wednesday, August 13, 8:30pm Aspen, CO Aspen Music Festival, Harris Concert Hall
Thursday, September 25, 7:30pm Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Macky Auditorium
Saturday, September 27, 8pm Irvine, CA Irvine Barclay Theatre
Sunday, September 28, 3pm San Diego, CA Balboa Theatre
Thursday, October 2, 8pm San Francisco, CA San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, Herbst Theatre
Saturday, October 4, 7:30pm Eugene, OR John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, Jaqua Concert Hall
Sunday, October 5, 8pm Portland, OR Chamber Music Northwest Portland, Reed College, Kaul Auditorium
Monday, October 6, 7:30pm Seattle, WA Benaroya Hall
Wednesday, October 15, 7:30pm Raleigh, NC Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Meymandi Concert Hall
Thursday, October 17, 8pm Charleston, SC Charleston Music Hall
Friday, October 18, 8pm Atlanta, GA Rialto Center for the Performing Arts
Tuesday, October 21, 7pm Nashville, TN Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Wednesday, October 22, 8pm Philadelphia, PA Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theatre
Friday, October 24, 7:30pm Chicago, IL University of Chicago, Mandel Hall
Wednesday, October 29, 8pm—with special guest, violinist Mark O’Connor New York, NY Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium |
