Sep 21 2018
Bill Cunliffe & Jeremy Siskind, duo piano

Bill Cunliffe & Jeremy Siskind, duo piano

Presented by CSU Fullerton - College of the Arts at Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton

Cal State Fullerton Professor of Music Bill Cunliffe is a jazz pianist, composer, Grammy Award-winning arranger and record producer. He is known for his work in blending jazz with the classical and pop genres based on a deep knowledge of and a lively curiosity about musical styles. As a solo artist and bandleader, he has more than a dozen albums to his name, and wearing other hats, including as a sideman, he appears on numerous other recordings.

Recent performances in addition to his solo and group jazz gigs hint at Cunliffe’s expansive musical playground: Before an audience of nearly 4,500, he led Cal State Fullerton’s fundraising “Concert Under the Stars.” He played piano-four-hands in a concert at Boston Court in Pasadena, Calif., with classical pianist and fellow CSUF faculty member Alison Edwards. He was guest artist with orchestras performing his arrangements of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Concerto in F, third movement, and his own trumpet concerto. He toured New Zealand in solo concerts and as a guest artist with the Rodger Fox Wellington Jazz Orchestra. He led CSUF’s Fullerton Jazz Orchestra in his arrangements of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze.”

Pianist Jeremy Siskind is the winner of the 2012 Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition and the second-place winner of the 2011 Montreux Solo Piano Competition. A two-time finalist for the American Pianist Association’s Cole Porter Fellowship, Siskind has performed jazz and classical music at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and in Japan, Switzerland, Colombia, Denmark, Thailand, Cyprus, England, Lebanon, India, Tunisia, France, and China. Siskind began serving full-time on the keyboard faculty of Fullerton College in Southern California in 2017 after teaching at Western Michigan University for five years.

Watch Jeremy Siskind perform here.

Admission Info

Tickets: $10/ $8

Tickets on sale soon.

NOTE: All orders subject to a $3 processing fee. Regular-priced tickets are sold immediately prior to a performance.

The Box Office is located on the southwest corner of the Clayes Performing Arts Center. Free 15-minute parking is available off Arts Drive near the Box Office.

Parking on weekends is free starting at 5 pm, Fridays. At all other times, daily permits are required and can be purchased for $8 upon entering the parking structure. Cash is not accepted. Visa, MasterCard and Discover only.

Phone: 6572783371

Email: pac-boxoffice@fullerton.edu

Dates & Times

2018/09/21 - 2018/09/21

Location Info

Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton

800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831

Parking Info

Parking for Performances: Parking on weekends is free starting at 5 pm, Fridays. At all other times, daily permits are required and can be purchased for $10 upon entering the parking structure. Cash is not accepted. Visa, MasterCard and Discover only.