WE, THE PEOPLE – Immigrants’ stories, Part 2
Music of Jewish/American composer and jazz pianist Alex Nakhimovsky.
Alex Nakhimovsky has toured throughout the United States, Japan, and Israel, performing with jazz legends Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Cobb, Valery Ponomarev, Sheila Jordan, Curtis Fuller, Victor Bailey, and Grammy-nominated artists Bill Evans, Carla Cook, Jazzmeia Horn & Rene Marie. His performance as soloist with award-winning Joe Hisaishi’s New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo was recorded and released on the Universal label as American In Paris in 2005. Later that year, Nakhimovsky toured with the Orchestra, performing in Japan’s major concert halls.
He is currently co-founder and artistic director of the BSBI Jazz Festival in Manchester, CT.
The Concert will include the world premiere of Commission Piece by Nakhimovsky, and Prokofiev: Symphony No.1 op. 25 “Classical” Shostakovich: Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a
