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February 9, 2025 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 4 PM
Billy Childs is one of North America’s most lauded musicians. He has earned seventeen Grammy nominations & six Grammy awards. He is also the recipient of Chamber Music America’s Composer’s Grant, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, & a music award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
This year he continued his success by winning Best Instrumental Jazz Album for his album “The Winds of Change” (2024). Several groups have commissioned Childs’s orchestral compositions, including the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, & the American Brass Quintet.
He has appeared on hundreds of recordings with such luminaries as J.J. Johnson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Gladys Knight, Chris Botti, Allan Holdsworth, Dianne Reeves, & Grover Washington.
His penultimate recording, Map to the Treasure, Reimagining Laura Nyro, received two Grammy Awards & features Alison Krauss, Renée Fleming, Wayne Shorter, & Diane Reeves.
Sponsored by friends of the VJC Summer Workshop
Tickets $25- 60 for in-person, general admission.
Livestream donations welcome.
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Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill #222
Brattleboro, VT 05301
