Jazz Festival | Jazz Ensembles I & II With Featured Artist Kyle Motl
Event Date & Time
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Event Location
Ted Mann Concert Hall
2128 Fourth Street South
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
The University of Minnesota Jazz Festival is a non-competitive educational festival. Visiting school groups perform for clinicians and each other. Each ensemble performs a 20 minute set in Ted Mann Concert Hall. Following this short performance, the band moves to a rehearsal space where they will spend 40 minutes with two clinicians who will work with them and offer suggestions on how to improve their performance.
This School of Music event is free and open to the public. A livestream will be available (click on the Ted Mann Concert Hall events in the right callout box).
Artist Bio
Kyle Motl
Kyle Motl is a bassist, composer, and improviser described as “spectacularly adventurous and dynamic,” whose playing is noted for both “iridescent delicacy as well as abrasive force” (The Wire). A frequent soloist, his performances “promise to change us by revealing things we could never have imagined” (Free Jazz Collective). Kyle makes music in collaborative trios with Anthony Davis and Kjell Nordeson (Vertical Motion, 2023 Astral Spirits) and with Dan Clucas and Nathan Hubbard (Daydream and Halting, 2022 FMR). Upcoming recording projects include a collaborative chamber trio with Rocío Díaz de Cossío and José Fernando Solares and an extended take on the piano trio with Eli Wallace and Nick Neuberg. Kyle works regularly with both emerging and established composers and champions new works for the bass. He has performed with ensembles including International Contemporary Ensemble and Ghost Ensemble. His 2022 solo record, Hydra Nightingale, consists of solo premieres by Caroline Louise Miller, Anqi Liu, Jessie Cox, and Asher Tobin Chodos.
Kyle holds a DMA from UC San Diego, where he studied with Mark Dresser and Anthony Davis, an MM from Florida International University, and a BM from Florida Atlantic University. His book, Bells Plucked From Air, sheds light on harmonic techniques for the double bass. Kyle is Assistant Professor of double bass and contemporary instrumental music at University of Minnesota Twin Cities.