Sept. 7, 2006
Contact: Gordon Ovenshine:
724-738-4854; gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
REGIONAL JAZZ MUSICIANS TO JOIN SRU PIANIST
GLENN UTSCH
FOR SEPT. 28 CONCERT AT SLIPPERY
ROCK UNIVERSITY
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Dr. Glenn Utsch,
assistant professor of piano at Slippery Rock University, and four
regional guest jazz musicians will offer a free concert at 7:30
p.m. Sept. 28 in SRU’s Swope Music Hall.
The occasion is
Utsch’s annual faculty piano recital. He will perform
classical and jazz piano for the first half of the
concert.
Following
intermission, Utsch will be joined by SRU saxophonist Terry
Steele, associate professor of music; Tammi Dahl, an SRU graduate
and bandleader in Pittsburgh; Bob Rawsthorne, former percussionist
for PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and bassist
Patrick Crossley, who has recorded with Steele and the Frank
Cunimondo Trio.
Utsch is in his
11th year of teaching classical and jazz piano at
SRU. He regularly performs in the Pittsburgh area and
has played in New York City at various clubs. In New York, he
was also featured pianist at a party for former first lady Nancy
Reagan at the Lincoln Center.
Steele performs
regularly on saxophone, clarinet and flute for the Pittsburgh
Symphony, the Pittsburgh Pops, the Civic Light Opera Orchestra, the
Broadway Series Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Ballet orchestra and many
national PBS telecasts. He has served three terms of office
as the Pennsylvania state president of the International
Association for Jazz Educators. He is in his 32nd year at
SRU.
Dahl, singer,
songwriter and SRU alumnae, has been working in Pittsburgh for the
past 15 years and is bandleader of the group
“Dreamscape.” She has performed with Huey Lewis, Harry
Connick Jr., James Earl Jones and Chevy Chase.
Crossley's earliest jazz roots
were established at SRU 35 years ago, not as a student but as
an inspired friend of Dr. Joe Rohm, former music professor
of piano and jazz studies. He plays bass for the
Pittsburgh-based pianist Frank Cunimondo. He also spent six years
in Nashville, where he recorded with Dash Crofts (formerly of Seals
and Crofts).
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