Daniel Kelly - Composer & Pianist

Just finished a week of sold out performances at the Kennedy Center with master storyteller, David Gonzalez. We’ve collaborated on a new theatrical production of a timeless classic - Sleeping Beauty, and now we’re touring it. This creative re-imagination of the tale includes myself on stage performing many of Bach’s Goldberg Variations along with my own solo piano compositions and stunning video art projected throughout the piece on a 20 ft x 20 ft screen. Very happy to have played 12 performances at the Kennedy Center and traveled with this project to Alaska, Chicago, St. Louis, etc...

WORLD PREMIERE!
This Saturday, April 21st at 8pm - Connection Works is presenting:

ChamberWORKS: Three World Premieres for Chamber Orchestra by Rob Garcia, Michel Gentile and Daniel Kelly.

Needless to say, I’m thrilled about my composition, Inner Landscapes, which breaks a lot of new ground for me:

1 - This piece is highly influenced by classical music. Members of the group call one of the movements, “the Mahler piece,” if that’s any indication.

2 - I don’t play a single note of piano!!! Rather, I’ll be conducting the orchestra(?!)

3 - It’s a multi-movement work about 50 minutes in duration.

4 - None of it sounds remotely like “jazz”.

5 - A couple of the movements are influenced by my two-year stint as the pianist for the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the dynamic post-minimalist chamber group.

6 - I feel that this piece contains some of the most beautiful music that I’ve ever written.

7 - It’s the largest group I’ve ever orchestrated for: Violin, Viola, Cello, Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn, Trumpet and Drums.

So.....If you’ve been wanting to hear one of my shows for a while, THIS is the one to catch!

The details are below - right before OTHER COOL THINGS that I don’t have time to get into in depth, but will let you know about soon.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21
8:00pm (2 sets)

Brooklyn Conservatory
Concert Hall
58 Seventh Ave. (at Lincoln Pl.) BKLYN
www.bqcm.org

$10

CHAMBERWORKS:
Three world premieres for WORKS with Chamber Orchestra

Michael McGinnis - clarinet, bass clarinet
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
David Smith - trumpet
Tim McCarthy - french horn
Mazz Swift - violin
Tanya Kalmanovitch - viola
Marika Hughes - cello

Michel Gentile - flute
Daniel Kelly - piano
Rob Garcia - drums


OTHER COOL THINGS:

1 - I’m embarking on a new project with trumpeter Franz Hackl and percussionist Mino Cinelu. We have two shows in May, including a live Austrian radio broadcast. May 13th at Shapeshifter (in Brooklyn) and May 18th at the Austrian Cultural Forum.

2 - The next concert in Connection Works’ Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open is WORKS (myself, Michel Gentile and Rob Garcia) playing with Dave Liebman and Scott Colley.

3 - I’m playing a very special duo concert with the astounding vocalist and griot, Fred Johnson in St. Petersburg, Florida at the 800-seat performing art center, The Palladium Theater on May 22nd.

4 - The modern classical chamber group, Generous Ensemble, has arranged three of my compositions for nine musicians and will be performing them in concert at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, CT on April 29th.

Thank you so much for your interest and support!
Daniel