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Art Lande, Günter Wehinger, Tim Wendel
The trio featuring Art Lande (piano), Günter Wehinger (flute), and Tim Wendel (guitar) masterfully explores improvisation, composition, and subtle interaction, pulling from jazz, modern classical, and world music without residing in any identity for too long. Art and Tim have played in many groups together, while Günter and Art have played together since the 1980s. This trio will bring written and spontaneous compositions that have strong identities developed with creative ears, lyrical solos, intriguing rhythms, and sure technical abilities. Beauty, mystery, and surprises are in store for all who are present.
General Admission
$25 in advance / $30 at the door
We are offering a limited number of seats for this performance. Advance purchase is recommended.
ART LANDE
Art Lande was born in New York City in 1947. Throughout his youth, he had considerable exposure to music via his father (jazz) and Joseph Kahn of the NBC Symphony (classical). He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, focusing on music, philosophy, and literature. He moved to San Francisco in 1969, where he formed two bands, a quintet with Steve Swallow, Mel Martin, Glenn Cronkhite, and Eliot Zigmund, and Rubisa Patrol with Mark Isham, Glenn Cronkhite, and Bill Douglass. He also worked with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutchison, Woody Shaw, Charlie Haden, and the Escovedo Brothers salsa group.
In 1973, Art played his first European tour with trumpeter Ted Curson and made his first ECM recording with Jan Gabarek, which began 20 years and six recordings with that prestigious label.
As a teacher, he ran his own music school in the mid-70s in Berkeley, California, and subsequently taught at Cornish Institute, Seattle (1979–1983), Migros Klubschule, Saint Gallen, Switzerland (1983– 1986), Naropa Institute (1980–2000), and CU Boulder (2005 to present). He created new ways of teaching rhythm, ear training, and improvisation, wrote a book about teaching and playing titled Being Music with Mark Miller, and has done residencies at colleges worldwide.
Art has written over 500 compositions, and many are included in his numerous recordings. His music is a reflection of genre-defying, unbounded potential with complex explorations of form, meter, harmony, improvisatory freedom and interaction, poetry, theater, and spatial concepts. Long-lasting associations with Paul McCandless, Bruce Williamson, Dean Johnson, and Nguyen Le, along with bands like Boy Girl Band (20 years), Russian Dragon Band, and Kimandala, speak to a deep commitment to community, friendship, artistic vision, and collaboration. artlande.com
GÜNTER WEHINGER
Günter Wehinger was born in Austria, where he earned his conservatory degree in 1982. In 1987, he moved to the United States to study with the renowned flutist James Newton in Los Angeles. After spending two years in San Francisco, he returned to Europe. Since then, Wehinger has built an extensive musical career that encompasses both jazz and classical performance, alongside intensive teaching engagements at the Music Universities of Zurich and Basel.
His flute playing ranges from pristine, romantic lyricism to electrifying multiphonics, screams, and growls. Today, he is regarded as one of the leading flutists in contemporary jazz. He has released more than a dozen CDs as a leader or co-leader, collaborating with outstanding musicians such as Art Lande, Michael Cain, Peter Madsen, Anthony Cox, Bogdan Hołownia, Pheeroan AkLaff, Paul McCandless, Marek Bałata and Karin Nakagawa.
In addition to performing throughout Europe, he has toured repeatedly in the United States and Japan with various ensembles. While on tour, he is frequently invited to present masterclasses and workshops at colleges and music universities, including the New England Conservatory, San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University.
Wehinger is also a prolific composer and arranger. He has written music for orchestra and various chamber ensembles, skillfully blending elements of jazz, classical music and - in his latest project – Japanese sounds. gunterwehinger.com
TIM WENDEL
Tim Wendel is a versatile guitarist, composer, producer and educator. He began his musical career by immersing himself in the Philadelphia jazz scene where he was an accomplished leader and sideman for 10 years. Now residing in Colorado, Tim actively performs locally and tours nationally and internationally—both as a sideman and with his own creative projects. When not performing, he is an in-demand producer and educator. In 2022, Wendel released his debut album Westward You. His performing and recording credits include a number of modern jazz luminaries such as Art Lande, Dave King, Shane Endsley, Adam Benjamin and Ron Miles, among others. https://timwendelmusic.com