Eldar, the 20-year-old jazz piano phenomenon Billboard calls "astonishing" and the Washington Post hails as a "prodigious talent," breaks new creative ground on "Re-Imagination", his third album for SONY BMG Masterworks, available in Store......!!!!PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A FAN-CREATED PAGE!!!.........
Eldar’s path from Bishkek to the United States is the stuff of jazz legend. At nine he performed at a jazz festival Novosibirsk, in Siberia, and impressed the late Charles McWhorter, a New York based jazz patron. McWhorter obtained a scholarship for Eldar to attend summer camp at the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, where he spent each summer between 1998 and 2001. In 1998, he and his parents moved to the U.S., beginning their new life together in Kansas City.During these years, Eldar continued to develop and impress everyone who heard him. Marian McPartland invited Eldar to appear on her NPR series Piano Jazz after McWhorter sent her a tape of his playing. Dr. Billy Taylor encountered him at a Charlie Parker symposium in Kansas City and booked him for an appearance on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Also in Kansas City, Eldar played for the Jazz Musician Foundation, before Michael Greene, then head of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences, who booked Eldar to play on the 2000 Grammy Awards telecast. In 2001, Eldar participated in the jazz piano competition of the 2001 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and won the top prize. The following year, he won first place in the Peter Nero Piano Competition.From then until now, Eldar has performed on the international festival, club, and concert circuits, while pursuing his education in jazz harmony and improvisation with Kim Park and John Elliott. His family moved to San Diego in 2003, and in Fall 2005, he matriculated at the University of Southern California, where he studied improvisation with pianist Shelly Berg.Now a full-time musician, Eldar is happy with the trans-genre approach. “I’m not looking at labels,†he says. “I’ve never heard music as one style or another—as bebop or swing, or the Romantic or 20th century period of classical music. It’s more about whether music connects, whether it has a message. The message is the most important thing. I want to be a musician and I want to be an artist—not just a piano player.“I’m going to be playing jazz, or some form of it, for the rest of my life. It encompasses so much; there’s so much room for self..Reference from www.eldarjazz.com)eldar
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