From Classic Jazz to Broadway and Hollywood in Four Hands

Join us for the next Concert at Calvary event on Friday May 29th, 6:30PM.  Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi perform a lively and fun concert not to be missed!  Tickets are available at the door or online here starting April 20.

Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie traditions, as well as from the Swing Era. They have performed across the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike. In recent projects, they have focused on the repertoire of the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood, as the songs written for the musicals of the stage and screen represent a high point of creative ferment in American popular music.

Blending impeccable technique and mature musicality with humor and showmanship, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi are considered the most engaging piano duo dedicated to the repertoire of classic jazz. Stephanie Trick (from St. Louis), a leading exponent of stride piano, and Paolo Alderighi (from Milan), one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists, met at a piano festival in Switzerland in 2008. Soon after, they started to collaborate on a four-hands piano project and have recorded seven albums together.

The jazz piano duo will present their inventive arrangements in four hands of tunes from the early decades of jazz history (with tributes to Duke Ellington, Thomas “Fats” Waller, Benny Goodman, and others) and will celebrate some of the composers who contributed to the creation of the Great American Songbook (including Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and others). The performance will be interspersed with historical facts and anecdotes about the music.