Mike Condrad Trio

300 Potter Drive,Bellevue IA 52031

03 July, 2022

Description

RESERVE A TABLE HERE There is NO COVER charge for this concert. By reserving a ticket through this Eventbrite listing, you are reserving your table in the restaurant for the evening. Doors open at 12:45 for the show. The table will be yours for the afternoon. Table reservations are for diners only. Bar seats are first come first serve and do not require a reservation. Table assignments are based on availability. SHOW TIME 2:00-5:00 P.M. If tables are sold out, seating will still be available in separate seating areas without view of the band. Please call us at 563.872.3838 to make a reservation for these seats. Mike Conrad is a composer and improviser currently serving as Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He has been recognized for his arranging and composing with four ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards and seven awards from Downbeat Magazine, as well as many other accolades. Conrad’s music has been performed all over the world, including a 2017 concert by the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands, a 2014 Carnegie Hall Premiere, and a performance at the US Presidential Inauguration in 2013. As a pianist and trombonist, he has toured China, played at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and appeared at various jazz festivals and venues all over the United States. Aside from his own projects like the All Angles Orchestra, the Mike Conrad Trio, and the co-led big band COLOSSUS, Conrad has enjoyed performing and/or recording with Alexa Tarantino, Dave Chisholm, the Bob Washut Dodectet, Christopher’s Very Happy. Band., the Max Wellman Big Band, and many other groups. Some of his more recent projects include a reimagination of Beethoven’s 3rd symphony in collaboration with the Berlin-based Stegreif Orchester, and a suite of four Iowa-inspired big band pieces for the Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra, which he founded. Conrad’s latest jazz trio project, “Reconnect,” features Katie Ernst on bass and Cassius Goens III on drums.