(Kyle Shepherd, Shane Cooper & Jonno
Sweetman)
(Pic by Gregory Franz, edited
by Brandan Reynolds)
Fresh off a highly
acclaimed Canadian Tour in June, the Kyle Shepherd Trio embarks on a Southern
African Tour in September that will see them perform in Mozambique, Botswana
and in major cities across South Africa. Their Durban performance takes place
on September 2.
The Southern
African Tour was made possible by the Concerts SA Mobility Fund - a funding
mechanism which offers opportunities for South African musicians to undertake
live music tours, administered by Concerts SA, a joint South African/Norwegian
project; with the performance in Botswana supported by the Gaborone
International Music and Culture Week.
Featuring band
leader, Kyle Shepherd on piano, Shane Cooper on bass and Jonno Sweetman on
drums, this inspiring and inventive trio performs compositions from Shepherd’s
rich and evocative repertoire of recorded and new unreleased original
compositions!
“A proud South
African, Shepherd is also a striving musician with ears attuned to the
cutting-edge, globe-spanning music made by influences such as Vijay Iyer, Jason
Moran and Craig Taborn. Much of Shepherd’s concert found him, bassist Shane
Cooper and drummer Jonno Sweetman exploring a more craggy and contemporary
musical turf, and successfully so,” said Peter Hum, The Ottawa Citizen, Canada.
Fast gaining
international recognition for his distinctive compositional style and
performances, the award-winning Shepherd is arguably one of South Africa’s
leading progressive pianists and composers of his generation. The 28 year-old
virtuoso pianist who has a well-established record of celebrated performances
in South Africa, Europe, Asia and the USA has already released five (5)
critically acclaimed albums in his young career, namely, fineART, A Portrait of Home,
South African History !X, Dream State – all South African Music
Award-nominated albums - and Into
Darkness.
The Kyle Shepherd
Trio will perform on September 2 at 18h00 at the Centre for Jazz and Popular
Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Tickets R50 (R30 pensioners, R15 students)
at the door. For more information visit www.music.ukzn.ac.za
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