Tom Teasley will be presenting both a hands on workshop as well as a solo performance at Intersections. In the workshop he will focus on various hand drum techniques from India, the Middle East and Africa. These will be combined with techniques that American jazz drummers use. This intersection creates an east meets west fusion of rhythms, hand technique and compositional ideas.His solo performance will draw on these various traditions and combine them with the magic of digital technology. Using digital looping he will create virtual ensembles that defy time and space. He has presented this material at Eastman School of Music, three PASIC conventions and throughout the U.S.,Europe and Middle East where he just returned from performing and teaching. Tom is the recipient of three time Fulbright-Hayes awards, Young Audiences Artist of the Year award, Kennedy Center Artist In Residence and recently was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for outstanding sound design.
Reviews of Tom’s work:
"The evening's dazzler..." -- The Washington Post
Reviews of Tom’s work:
"The evening's dazzler..." -- The Washington Post
"No Instrument has a limitation for him" -- Modern Drummer Magazine
"Fusions between American and Eastern schools are old news, yet seldom has any percussionist drawn so deeply from both wells and come up with a blend as bewitching and original as this." -- Drum! Magazine
"Latin, Brazilian, and Middle Eastern flavors abound, yet they're blended in such a way that the resulting dish hits the palate as wonderfully different, toying with each composer's original recipe to great effect."-- Jazziz Magazine
" ... a highly imaginative conceptualist... a colorful, intellectual musician, employing his talents in the orchestration of sound... ingeniously deploys unusual uses of unusual percussion... unlimited talents. " -- Allaboutjazz.com
Check out the Videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaqCnppWWEs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9av45o9X0BQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83oFMGnR5Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZjdoXU5mO8
For more info, visit http://www.tomteasley.com/
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