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Roberta Gambarini & Tamir Hendelman
3-time Grammy nominee and international vocal powerhouse Roberta Gambarini teams up with celebrated pianist Tamir Hendelman in an intimate duo setting, celebrating the Great American Songbook, bebop evergreens, lesser-known music by Jobim, and more. Roberta first met Tamir at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, and he recorded on her Easy To Love and So In Love albums and has toured the US, Europe, and Japan with her. Join them in person as they collaborate on their first musical duo tour.
$35 General Admission
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ROBERTA GAMBARINI
Three time Grammy nominated international vocal powerhouse Roberta Gambarini burst on the world’s jazz scene in 1998 , when she became one of the runner-ups in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition. Her performance on the Smithsonian Auditorium stage in Washington, D.C., stunned judges and audience alike, and launched a decades-long stellar career that has won her the love of audiences in the US and all over the world, from Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl to Jazz Festivals such as Monterey and Newport, from NYC’s Blue Note Jazz Club to Salle Pleyel in Paris and Royal Albert Hall in London.
She has performed, recorded and toured extensively with most of the greatest Masters of Jazz, among them: James Moody, Clark Terry, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones, Billy Higgins, Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Dave Brubeck, the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars Big Band, Jon Batiste, Chucho Valdes, Paquito D’Rivera, and many more. Her work has been rewarded with multiple prizes, such as three Grammy nominations (two as Jazz Vocal Album of the Year for her albums Easy to Love and So in Love, and one for her work on the iconic Roy Hargrove Big Band album Emergence), the French National Jazz Academy vocal album of the year prize for her album You are There in duo with Jazz Giant and former Ella Fitzgerald’s pianist Hank Jones, the Jazz Singer of the Year Prize which the International Association of Jazz Journalists awarded her twice, Down Beat Magazine Best Rising Vocal Star and Singer of the Year Award, and more.
Roberta keeps touring and recording with her acclaimed quartet, but she is also constantly expanding her repertoire and embracing new musical adventures, from performing with Cuban Jazz great Paquito D’Rivera to new exciting collaborations with jazz Master Cyrus Chestnut as well as Nuevo Tango Master Pablo Ziegler. In recognition of her global standing as one of today’s leading voices in Jazz and of her many contributions to the vocal arts, in 2023 the French ministry of Culture rewarded Roberta with the highest of honors reserved to artists: the title of ‘Chevalier des Arts ed des Lettres’. robertagambarini.com
TAMIR HENDELMAN
Pianist, composer and arranger Tamir Hendelman is known for his dynamic playing and imaginative arranging on his own trio recordings and those of the Jeff Hamilton Trio and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra since 2000-2001, as well as his work with Natalie Cole, Barbra Streisand and Roberta Gambarini, Graham Dechter, Richard Galliano and Claudio Roditi.
As a youth, he moved from Tel Aviv to Los Angeles, winning Yamaha’s national keyboard competition, performing in Japan and the Kennedy Center, attending Tanglewood in 1998 and receiving a Bachelor of Music Composition from the Eastman School of Music in 1993 after studies with pianist/composers Clare Fischer and Billy Childs.
Tamir Hendelman premiered John Clayton’s version of Oscar Peterson’s “Canadiana Suite” in 2001 with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. He has performed with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Arizona MusicFest, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, and recently was one of several UCLA composers to be commissioned for pianist Inna Faliks’ Reimagine Project. He has been on the faculty of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music since 2005 and has given numerous workshops in universities and music programs in the US and abroad.
His latest CD, Destinations, reached #1 in the US jazz charts, featuring music by Jobim, Jarrett, Ravel, originals and more. His first recording, Playground, features John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton and reached the top of the charts as well. Recent recordings include Graham Dechter’s Minor Influence and Jeff Hamilton Trio’s Catch Me If You Can. tamirhendelman.com