A Very Tolstoy Christmas! Featuring Renowned Jazz Pianist Andrei Kitaev, Shelly Rudolph and Eric Gruber!
Fri, Dec 13
|Portland
This event is inspired by Tolstoys book, Anna Karenina. We encourage dressing in your best Anna Karenina or Count Vronsky look. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
Time & Location
Dec 13, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Portland, 3332 S Corbett Ave, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Guests
About the event
Ahmad Jamal once said: “he deserves to be heard at the best concert halls in the world…” The famous Lionel Hampton said: “…that cat really plays…” Thomas Lynne, of This Week Magazine said of Andrei’s music “Perhaps it took a Russian born pianist with a lot of Rachmaninoff in his blood to find a new angle on this material. What one hears from the first cut to the last is not a rehash of the familiar but rather a profoundly emotional exploration of the guts and soul of these classics”. All this points to a musical genius combined with the thirst for the musical expression only jazz can offer and the gut-wrenching cry for the freedom to explore, develop, and present one’s soul on the ivories of the piano.
Andrei Kitaev was born in Russia where he started his formal classical piano training at the early age of six. From…