An Award-Winning Master of Genre-Busting Music, Composer-Pianist-Vocalist Peter Saltzman Has Produced Everything From Whimsical One-Minute songs to Brilliant Improvisations to Complex but Accessible Orchestral Scores.

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Project 88 Solo Piano Concert

Peter Saltzman Solo Piano Live, Saturday,November 11, 2023, 6:30 pm

I am performing a rare solo piano concert as a part of the Project 88 Concert series in Berwyn on  Saturday, November 11, 2023, @ 6:30 PM.

Location: 6720 31st Street, Berwyn, IL 60402 (Unity Lutheran Church)

Tickets are free (donations accepted), but seats you can reserve your seats here. Seats are filling up fast, so don’t delay.

As you can see in the program below, I’ll be performing an even mix of my originals and arrangments of some pretty well-known tunes. (Expect to be surprised by the latter: these are anything but standard jazzy arrangments of pop tunes.)

Program:

      1. Improvised Overture to Act 1: Aggressively……………….. Peter Saltzman
      2. Two New Blues……………………………………………………………. Saltzman

                   Blues in Satie (2007) 
                  Seven Gear Blues (2007)

      1. Nocturne 1: Cinematic Scene ……………………………………..Saltzman
      2. I Am the Walrus…………………………………. John Lennon (arr. Saltzman)
      3. Nocturne 2: Brooklyn, 1986, Evening (2014)…………………………. Saltzman
      4. Two Jazz Standards

                   ‘Round Midnight…………………… Thelonious Monk/Saltzman
                   13 Variables on a Theme by Coltrane (2016-2023)………………. Saltzman

      INTERMISSION 

      1. Improvised Overture to Act 2: Pop Counterpoint ………….. Saltzman
      2. Prelude, Feud &Vamp in C (2012)…………………………….. Saltzman
      3. Rewriting Bach, Part 1…………………………..J.S. Bach/Saltzman
      4. Epilogue

                   Sound of Silence………………………….. Paul Simon/Peter Saltzman
                   Rondo Blues (2013)………………………….. Saltzman

       

     

    Contact: info@petersaltzman.com

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