Burge/VanMatre Quartet

Fri, Jan 19

Rusty Burge — vibraphone Rick VanMatre — tenor saxophone Aaron Jacobs — bass John Taylor — drums Rusty Burge joined the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music faculty in 1992 as a member of Percussion Group Cincinnati, with whom he has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Recent performances include the Japan World Drum Festival, Chinese International Music Festival, Taipei International Percussion Convention, the Ravinia Festival, Merkin Hall in New York City, and the International Percussion Convention. He has recorded with the Group for the Mode, Centaur, Einstein, and Ars Moderno labels. The Group has also performed concerto with more than twenty symphony orchestras. He was formerly a principal percussionist with the West Virginia Symphony and plays extra with the Cincinnati Symphony. He received his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music and a master's from CCM. Rick VanMatre is one of Cincinnati’s most well-known musicians and has presented solo concerts and jazz club performances throughout the US and Europe and in Israel, Brazil, China, Korea, and Thailand. In addition to recording his own quintet with original compositions, he has performed as a jazz soloist with artists like Roland Vazquez, Kim Pensyl, the Duke Ellington Orchestra led by Mercer Ellington, and the Woody Herman Orchestra led by Frank Tiberi. Some of his many recordings include the PsychoAcoustic Orchestra, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra with Manhattan Transfer and John Pizzarelli, and the New Third Stream Quartet. He has commissioned unique jazz/classical concerti and performed them with symphonic orchestras such as the New York Repertory Orchestra, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra (China), and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Here in Cincinnati, you are probably familiar with his performances at jazz clubs, the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, and the College-Conservatory of Music, where he has played and conducted hundreds of concerts. As Director of Jazz Studies at CCM, he produced numerous CD recordings, one of which was described by Cadence magazine as a “necessary part of any big-band enthusiast's library.” VanMatre is a Cincinnati Jazz Hall of Fame inductee. He is an endorsing artist for Selmer Saxophones and D’Addario Reeds. A $15 drink/food minimum is charged per person in the party, per set, if the total for beverages purchased by the party does not meet the minimum. Important Notices: If you do not check in by 15 minutes into the start of the set, we reserve the right to resale your seats with no refund. Refunds must be within 24 hours of the start of the performance.