Media Release 30 September 2015

Keith Jarrett Returns to Dublin’s National Concert Hall for a Rare Solo Piano Concert

Perspectives 2015:  Keith Jarrett - Solo Piano
Tuesday November 17, 2015 - 8:00 PM

Legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett returns to Dublin’s National Concert Hall to perform one of his rare solo piano concerts. The concert will feature an entire evening of solo piano improvisations.

A recipient of a US National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award in January 2014, Keith Jarrett has come to be recognized worldwide as one of the most creative and uncompromising musicians of our times - universally acclaimed as an improviser of unsurpassed genius.

Over the past 45 years, his landmark improvised solo piano concerts and recordings have incorporated a broad spectrum of musical languages, evoking a dynamic creative process and producing spontaneous music that is both deeply personal, yet universal.

The solo piano improvisations on his best-selling ECM Records solo piano recordings – Solo Concerts, The Köln Concert, Sun Bear Concerts, Paris Concert, Vienna Concert, La Scala, Radiance, The Carnegie Hall Concert, Testament: Paris/London, Rio and most recently Creation – have helped redefine the role of the piano in contemporary music.

This singular body of improvised solo piano work is without precedent with The Köln Concert celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year as the best-selling solo piano recording in history.

Tickets for this concert are on sale from 10.00am on Friday 2nd October from the National Concert Hall Box Office, telephone: 01-417 00 00 or visit www.nch.ie

Priority Booking for Friends of the National Concert Hall will take place from 10.00am on Thursday 1st October.

Tickets: €95, €80, €75 (Choir Balcony:  €40)

“…not just the world’s greatest piano player but our greatest living musician.” Geoff Dyer, The Guardian

“Seventy years after his birth, and 40 years after his Köln Concert raised the art of solo piano to undreamt-of heights, Keith Jarrett remains the pre-eminent improviser on his instrument, capable of profoundly moving, spontaneous compositions. Creation, his latest CD…is a selection of sometimes brooding but occasionally sublime ruminations, culled from live performances around the world in 2014, amounting to an unintended suite many Romantic-era classical composers would have been happy to have written.”
Cormac Larkin, Irish Times
 
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For further information please contact Jenny Costello, Marketing Department:
Email: jenny.costello@nch.ie Tel: 01 417 0084