CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON PRESENTS
THE MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 AT THE BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER

Berklee College of Music Hosts Week-long Residency By Schneider

(BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents the Maria Schneider Orchestra on Saturday, November 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston. The performance marks the Boston debut of Schneider and her New York-based big band, and is presented in association with Berklee College of Music.

Berklee College of Music hosts a residency by Ms. Schneider from November 13-16. The residency includes master classes, clinics—one for composers and arrangers, the other examining the music business in general, and a free public performance by the Berklee College Jazz Orchestra with Ms. Schneider on Friday,
November 16 at 7:30 p.m. in David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston Street, Boston. Tickets to the concert will be available at the door and are extremely limited.

Maria Schneider is one of today’s most prolific and visionary contemporary jazz composers and bandleaders. She was born in Windom, Minnesota and attended the University of Minnesota, University of Miami, and Eastman School of Music. In 1985, she relocated to New York City and began studying composition with Bob Brookmeyer, and working as an assistant to Gil Evans whose music she has, in recent years, been invited to conduct. Ms. Schneider established the Maria Schneider Orchestra in 1993, and the ensemble performed regularly at Visiones in Greenwich Village for five years. Subsequently the Maria Schneider Orchestra received invitations to perform at jazz festivals and in concert halls in Europe and South America. This established Ms. Schneider as a venerable composer and bandleader and earned her several commissions and invitations for guest conducting.

The Maria Schneider Orchestra’s first three recordings—Evanescence, Coming About, and Allégresse—all earned Grammy nominations. Concert in the Garden, released in 2005, won a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Released only on Ms. Schneider’s web site, Concert in the Garden was the first recording with Internet-only sales to win a Grammy Award. Ms. Schneider’s most recent recording, Sky Blue, was released in July 2007 on Mariaschneider.com to critical acclaim.

Mariaschneider.com is part of ArtistShare—a primarily artist and fan-funded venture conceived and developed in 2000 by musician and computer consultant Brian Carnelio. ArtistShare enables fans to experience a recording project from its conception through to its release, and to contribute to its success financially and creatively by providing access to the creative process.

CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON CONCERT INFORMATION
Saturday, November 17 at 8:00 PM
Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston


MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA

Maria Schneider, conductor

Reeds
Steve Wilson
Charles Pillow
Rich Perry
Donny McCaslin
Scott Robinson

Trumpets
Tony Kadleck
Jon Owens
Laurie Frink
Kenny Rampton

Trombones
Keith O'Quinn
Ryan Keberle
Marshall Gilkes
George Flynn

Rhythm
John Hart, guitar
Frank Kimbrough, piano
Joe Martin, bass
Ted Poor, drums

Accordion
Will Holshouser

Program selections are to be announced.

TICKETING INFORMATION
Tickets, priced at $48, $40, and $30, are available by calling Ticketmaster at (800) 931-2000, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Berklee Performance Center box office, 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston.

About Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston is New England's leading presenter of music, dance, and the performing arts from around the world. Founded in 1938, the Series incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in 1989. Each year, the Celebrity Series brings to Boston's major concert halls performances by instrumental and vocal soloists, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance companies, jazz and popular music performers, folk and ethnic performance groups, and other performing artists. The Celebrity Series' Arts, Education and Community program was initiated in 1984. The program reaches thousands of students annually in Boston area schools and communities. The program includes the award-winning AileyCamp Boston, a six-week summer dance program for Boston middle school students, and ACT 2, an after-school initiative for former participants of AileyCamp Boston. For more information on Celebrity Series of Boston, call (617) 482-2595 or visit us online at www.celebrityseries.org.

The Celebrity Series receives major annual support from two anonymous donors; The Little Family Foundation; The Susanne Marcus Collins Foundation; Bank of America; The Linde Family Foundation; Tufts Health Plan; Talbots Charitable Foundation; Foley & Lardner LLP; Charlesbank Capital Partners; Comcast; Morgan Stanley; BDO Seidman; PTC; Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Foundation; Steven and Joan Belkin Foundation; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; The Consolate General of Canada; The Collings Foundation; The Esther B. Kahn Charitable Foundation; The Red Sox Foundation; Massachusetts Cultural Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New England Foundation for the Arts; Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Foundation; The Harris A. Berman and Ruth E. Nemzoff Family Foundation; Amy and Joshua Boger; DeMoulas Foundation; Margaret Eagle and Eli Rapoport; Kathleen and Steven Haley; Cerise and Charles Jacobs; Paul L. King; Jann E. Leeming and Arthur D. Little; Paul F. and Barbara A. Levy; Frank and Eleanor Pao; Dorothy and Stephen Weber; Nancy Richmond Winsten and Dr. Joseph Winsten; Charles O. Wood, III and Miriam M. Wood; Ellen and Arnold Zetcher.

About Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over 60 years, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. With over a dozen performance and nonperformance majors, a diverse and talented student body representing over 70 countries, and a music industry "who's who" of alumni, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today - and tomorrow.

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