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Saturday, March 29, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
JAZZ PIANO MASTERS SERIES
Documentary Screening and Solo Performance
Join us for a special night of the Bay Area debut of Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums, a feature-length documentary on the life and music of Cuban-born pianist, composer, and multiple Grammy-nominee Omar Sosa. The film follows Omar's story from early childhood and conservatory education as a percussionist in Cuba, military service in Angola, a stint in Ecuador writing commercial jingles, and his fateful move to San Francisco. The screening will be followed by a solo performance not to be missed!
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Sunday, March 23, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
SONGS & STORIES SERIES
Vocalist, multi-faceted musician, and new music champion Sidney Chen shares his journey through the pandemic with his DIY hand-crank music boxes, as well as his perspective on ensemble music-making as essential practice for empathetic and compassionate living with others. Followed by audience Q & A. Hosted by vocalist Sharmila G. Lash.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
"Poetry of Jazz" is where the spoken word gets its groove. Allan Harris, Harlem’s own modern-day troubadour, takes classic poetry — from Shakespeare’s sonnets to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance — and drops it into the deep pocket of jazz. With his velvet vocals and magnetic presence, he flows between swinging rhythms and soulful recitations, backed by a razor-sharp jazz trio: Freddie Bryant (guitar), John Wiitala (bass), and Sylvia Cuenca (drums). This concert is a vibe, a conversation between past and present, where jazz and poetry riff, improvise, and redefine cool.
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Friday, March 21, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
JAZZ PIANO MASTERS SERIES
Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti returns to the piano store for a rare solo performance, just off the heels of winning a 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for his latest album Plot Armor.
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Sunday, March 16, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
While touring the US with a trio, Bokani Dyer embarks on a solo performance – on the West Coast presented exclusively at Piedmont Piano Company – playing reimagined works from previous albums, unheard material, and some covers of songs he enjoys performing. Dyer will explore a soundscape featuring the piano, vocals, and electronics, build the songs from nothing, then deconstruct to silence. Expect the unexpected, infectious rhythms, melodic explorations hailing back to the rich and various African traditions, groove, and virtuosic, innovative piano playing.
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Friday, March 14, 2025, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
TWO SHOWS 5:30pm & 8pm
9-time Grammy Nominee Tierney Sutton returns with pianist Tamir Hendelman for an intimate and swinging evening of songs about SPRING. Sutton is heralded for her abilities as a jazz storyteller and her ability to use her voice as an instrument. Hendelman is known for his sense of swing, imaginative arranging, sensitive touch and his work with vocalists from Natalie Cole to Barbra Streisand.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
This 13th annual free chamber music event will include movements from Schubert’s Iconic “Trout Quintet", Mozart’s elegant Flute Quartet, a rarely heard Piano Trio by Amy Beach as well an original oboe quartet by Vincent Russo. We are pleased to announce that Britt Day will be taking part in this performance.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
JAZZ PIANO MASTERS SERIES
with Jeremy Cohen and Quartet San Francisco
This concert is a world premiere of a number of works written by Bill Cunliffe for violinist Jeremy Cohen and the Quartet San Francisco. Bill has had a long relationship with Jeremy, having performed with him a number of times at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles in the ’90’s and ’00’s. These new pieces are for string quartet and piano, and all feature jazz improvisation, both by Bill and members of the quartet. Works performed include pieces composed by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, two of Bill’s main musical influences.
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Saturday, March 8, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
Featuring Alexandra Ridout
In his "Ode To The Piano," Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman presents his arrangements of some of the most moving yet chronically underplayed masterpieces of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thelonious Monk, Dr. Don Shirley, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea and more. Joining him is an all-star band consisting of his identical twin brother Eytan Schillinger-Hyman (bass), Alexandra Ridout (trumpet), and Michael Mitchel (drums).
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Sunday, March 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Piedmont Piano Company
- 1728 San Pablo Avenue
- Oakland, CA, 94612
Thembi Dunjana, a jazz pianist from South Africa, draws inspiration from her musical heroes McCoy Tyner and Moses Molelekwa in a solo piano set that explores her own compositions and reimagined jazz standards. This solo performance explores the parallels between African and American jazz music through rhythm and harmony. Expect infectious rhythms and familiar yet reinterpreted melodies.
