Innovative pianist showcases mix of styles from classical to jazz
Chris Jarrett in concert Saturday.
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Saturday, Nov. 7 will bring a unique opportunity to see pianist and composer Chris Jarrett play an exclusive concert at All Saints By-the-Sea.
In a program named Hommage, Jarrett will present music written in honour of great composers like Scriabin, Byrd and Mozart, as well as other original compositions.
Press material for the event states that Jarrett’s music does not specifically target either lovers of classical music or jazz. His listeners are the centre of his live performances and he wants to excite them, provoke thoughts in them and communicate with them.
Jarrett mixes all the styles between classical and jazz, revealing their contents through exciting contrast. He combines the love for forms of development with jazz energy.
Jarrett’s music derives from an urge to communicate, with outcomes as diverse as his ideas. The spectrum of his expression is wide: wild, rhythmical, ironic, epic, melancholic, bizarre, mystical and jazzy. Since he started his career in Germany in 1985, he has signed operas, oratorios, ballet music, symphonic pieces, music for film and theater and numerous piano compositions. Today, one of his most appreciated projects is Battleship Potemkin, where he performs live a piano score he composed for Sergei Eisenstein’s famous silent movie.
Jarrett has recorded nine CDs and has performed all over the world. In 2005 he created a piece written especially for performance during the world championship in soccer in Germany. Viertelfinale (semifinal) for 11 strings and conductor/referee consists of motifs translating a soccer game (and not without humour) into the language of contemporary music.
“His music absorbs moods, feelings, passions and catastrophes and sets them directly to sound and all this in breathtaking tempo. His technique is grandiose!” says Kolner Stadtanzeiger of Germany.
Tickets to the concert are available at Salt Spring Books. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, visit www.chrisjarrett.com or www.artesmusic.org.
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