Mar Creation Inc.とCRS 共催による、書と音楽のコラボレーションライブを一夜限りで開催いたします。いくつものグラミー賞を受賞した Maria Schneider Orchestra に所属するミュージシャンと世界的に書道家として知られる白石雪妃（しらいしせつひ）による稀に見るコラボレーションです。現在白石氏はアメリカツアー中、生演奏との融合から生まれるライブパフォーマンスは多くのファンを魅了しています。

今回演奏するミュージシャンは Jay Anderson (bass), Scott Robinson (sax), Gary Versace (accordion)。

場所 : CRS スタジオ
日時 : ６月１７日（金）午後７時半
料金 : 前売り＄１５、当日＄２０
予約 : online または電話 212-677-8621

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白石雪妃
幼少より書に興味を持つ。22歳で師範取得。書の線と空間の美しさを追求する。
伝統的な書の世界を伝えつつ独特のスタイルを持ち、音楽芸術や美術とのコラボレーションなど、書道を総合芸術として昇華させる世界観は高く評価されている。
海外でも積極的に活動し、生演奏との融合から生まれるライブパフォーマンスは世界中で多くのファンを魅了している。
2014年ミャンマー連邦共和国・国軍司令官の公式訪問において椿山荘・錦水にて揮毫。
2014ＦＩＦＡワールドカップサッカー日本代表新ユニフォームのコンセプト「円陣」揮毫。
2014年、10ヶ所に及ぶフランスライブツアーで好評を得た。
ダイナースクラブ銀座ラウンジ、ホテル日航東京にて個展、
マンダリンオリエンタル東京（Fissler圧力鍋発売60周年イベント）、
大英博物館で揮毫、London Improvisers Orchestraと共演。
パリでアートフェア・個展、NYで個展・Jazz clubライブ出演、ワークショップを開催。
マリアシュナイダーオーケストラのJay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough, ジャズホルニストのAdam Unsworthと共演。
映画「かぐや姫の物語」の演奏担当した古筝奏者：姜小青CDジャケット制作。
自身が手掛ける書とアクセサリーデザイナー「RYONA」のコラボブランド～en～縁は、渋谷ヒカリエやアベノハルカス近鉄本店などを経て、現在静岡伊勢丹にて常設されている。四谷三丁目喫茶茶会記書道サロン主宰、表参道書道教室講師。
http://www.setsuhi.jp

マリアシュナイダー・オーケストラ（ The Maria Schneider Orchestra )
1993年に結成後、全米、ヨーロッパ・ツアーなどの数多くのジャズフェスティバルで演奏している。2004年に発表されたアルバム、『コンサート・イン・ザ・ガーデン（英語版）』は初めてインターネットだけによって発売されたグラミー受賞アルバムとなった。このアルバムはジャズ・ジャーナリスト・アソーシエイションによって最優秀レコード賞を獲得した。そしてオーケストラは最優秀ラージ・ジャズ・アンサンブル賞を受賞した。2007年1月にアルバム『スカイ・ブルー（英語版）』を発表、7月にはArtistShareからもリリースされた。シュナイダーが『スカイ・ブルー』のために作曲した”セリュリアン・スカイ”は最優秀インストゥルメンタル・コンポジションとして同年のグラミー賞を受賞した。http://www.mariaschneider.com

About Scott Robinson (saxophone)

One of today’s most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton’s band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton’s quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D’Rivera’s clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz’s greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Scott has been heard numerous times on film, radio and television, and his discography now includes over 165 recordings. His four releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, Down Beat Magazine and other sources worldwide. The newest, “Melody From the Sky” (featuring the seldom-heard C-Melody saxophone), was recently the subject of a Wall Street Journal article by Nat Hentoff.A busy traveller, Scott has performed in some thirty nations, recently completing tours on five continents in a three-month period. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, at the Village Vanguard, at the Smithsonian Institution, and for the President of the United States. Scott’s group was selected to be the closing act at the Knitting Factory’s Sun Ra Festival in New York City. Scott has also written magazine articles and liner notes, and was an invited speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Jazz Forum in Washington, D.C.

Scott was selected by the US State Department to be a Jazz Ambassador for 2001, completing an eight-week, eleven-country tour of West Africa performing his arrangements of the compositions of Louis Armstrong (later featured on his CD Jazz Ambassador).The son of a piano teacher and a National Geographic writer/editor, Scott Robinson was born on April 27, 1959 in New Jersey, and grew up in an eighteenth century Virginia farmhouse. While in high school, he received the “Louis Armstrong Award”, and the “Best Soloist Award” from the National Association of Jazz Educators. In 1981, he graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and a year later became, at 22, Berklee’s youngest faculty member.

Since moving to New York in 1984, Scott has been awarded four fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, and participated in a number of Grammy-nominated recordings. He has been profiled in upcoming editions of the Encyclopedia of Jazz and Grove’s Dictionary of Jazz. A recent 4 minute CNN program featured Scott and the giant contrabass saxophone which he used on his CD, Thinking Big. Scott was also the winner of a recent Downbeat Critics Poll under miscellaneous instruments (talent deserving wider recognition).

A respected performer in all areas of jazz, from traditional to avant-garde, Scott Robinson has arrived at his own unique musical voice which, as once described in a Northsea Jazz Festival program, “combines solid foundations with great daring.”

About Jay Anderson (bass)

Bassist/composer Jay Anderson is among the most versatile and respected jazz artists performing today. Born in Southern California, Anderson began playing acoustic bass at the age of twelve. Throughout junior high, high school, and college, Anderson won numerous awards for excellence in both jazz and classical music. One week after receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from California State University at Long Beach, Anderson was asked to join the Woody Herman Orchestra. After touring with the “Herd” for a year, he was called by Carmen McRae and performed with the legendary singer for the next two years.

In 1982 Anderson made the decision to move to New York City. Since moving East, he has continued to perform and record with some of the most important names in jazz. Anderson has been a regular member in the bands of Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan, Michael Brecker, Toots Thielemans, Maria Schneider, Vic Juris, Bob Mintzer, Michael Franks, Eliane Elias, Bennie Wallace, Lew Tabackin, Steve Khan, Lynne Arriale, Stanley Cowell, and was with Joe Sample from 1992 to 2006.

Anderson takes pride in his versatility and openness to different types of music. He has been featured on over 400 recordings, including work with Paul Bley, Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, Mike Stern, Jim McNeely, John Scofield, Seamus Blake, Oz Noy, Adam Nussbaum, John Abercrombie, Donald Byrd, Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Woods, Terumasa Hino, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Tony Lakatos, Mark Soskin, Lee Konitz, Donny McCaslin, Anat Cohen, Warren Bernhardt, Frank Kimbrough, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Garry Dial, Dick Oatts, Andy LaVerne, Walt Weiskopf, Phil Markowitz, Steve Wilson, Joe Locke, Joey Calderazzo, Bob Sheppard, Dave Pike, Blue Mitchell, Harold Land, Tiger Okoshi, George Cables, Ivan Lins, Jay Clayton, Sheila Jordan, Lalah Hathaway, Judy Niemack, Houston Person, Rich Perry, David Witham, Charles Blenzig, Jeremy Monteiro, Yosuke Yamashita, Mark Isaacs, and many others. He has performed with the big bands of Kenny Wheeler, Bob Mintzer, Bob Belden, Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi, George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, WDR Köln (guest performer), HR Frankfurt Radio (guest performer), Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project (winner of a 2012 Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement (Gil Evans) and the Jazz Journalists Association 2013 awards forRecord of the Year and Large Ensemble of the Year) and the critically acclaimed Maria Schneider Orchestra whose 2004 release “Concert In The Garden” won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. He also performed on Maria’s 2007 release “Sky Blue” that won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition, “Cerulean Skies” (Maria Schneider). More recently Jay was featured on Maria’s 2015 release “The Thompson Fields” that won a Grammy for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, and on David Bowie’s “Sue (Or In A Season Of Change)” that won a Grammy for Best Arrangement (Maria Schneider).

Anderson has also done numerous jingles and non-jazz recordings with David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Terre Roche, Tom Waits, Chaka Khan, Michel Legrand, legendary poet Allen Ginsberg, and the Grammy Award winning 1997 Record of the Year “Falling Into You” by Celine Dion. He has performed with classical legends Van Cliburn, Sir Neville Marriner and has been a guest with the Atlanta Symphony conducted by Robert Spano (performing/recording “Oceana” by Osvaldo Golijov featuring Luciana Souza). He was a featured performer (along with Frank Kimbrough and Scott Robinson) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw. Their recording of Maria Schneider’s “Winter Morning Walks” won 2014 Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Maria Schneider), Best Classical Vocal Solo (Dawn Upshaw) and Best Engineered Classical Album(David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn). He has also recorded with critically acclaimed Prism Saxophone Quartet.

In addition to being a highly sought-after sideman, Anderson is a proven voice in his own right. His two original recordings on the DMP label, “NEXT EXIT” and “LOCAL COLOR” have received critical acclaim both in the U.S. and abroad. Jay currently co-leads the critically acclaimed group BANN featuring Seamus Blake, Oz Noy and Adam Nussbaum.

Anderson has been the recipient of the NEA grant for composition and two Meet the Composer grants. More than twenty of the recordings he has been featured on have been nominated for the Grammy Award. He has conducted clinics around the world and is a Professor of Jazz Bass Studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

About Gary Versace (accordion)

Since basing himself in New York City in June of 2002, jazz organist, pianist, and accordionist Gary Versace has quickly become one of the busiest and most versatile musicians on the scene, often featured in bands led by musicians such as John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Maria Schneider, Matt Wilson, Lee Konitz, Eliot Zigmund, Scott Wendholt, Joe Magnarelli, Danny Gottlieb, Seamus Blake, John Hollenbeck, Andy LaVerne, Adam Nussbaum, Brad Shepik, Ingrid Jensen, Tim Ries and many others.

Versace was voted a “rising star” on the Hammond organ in the last three Downbeat critics polls, and was the subject of a feature article in the July 2004 issue of Keyboard magazine.

Versace has been a featured soloist on several critically acclaimed recordings of recent years: accordionist on Maria Schneider’s Grammy-winning recordings “Concert in the Garden” and “Sky Blue” and as the pianist on John Hollenbeck’s Grammy-nominated large ensemble recording, “A Blessing.”

Over the past five years, Versace has appeared as a leader for the Criss Cross and SteepleChase labels, and as a sideman on over 50 recordings with artists on various labels including Palmetto, ACT, Omnitone, Songlines, Pirouet, High Note, Justin Time, ArtistShare, Fresh Sound, Kind of Blue, and many others.