Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Henry Threadgill to Play Concert

Epistrophy Arts and Liminal Sound Series present Pulitzer Prize Winning composer Henry Threadgill in Concert with Zooid at Austin's Scottish Rite Theater.

FRIDAY AUGUST 11th
MASTER CLASS with Henry Threadgill

University of Texas- Butler School of Music
2406 Robert Dedman Dr
Austin TX 78712-1555
The Henry Threadgill Master Class will be a Q&A session.
It is an open form session that can go where ever the questions lead.

SATURDAY AUGUST 12th
CONCERT: Henry Threadgill's Zooid

Scottish Rite Theater
207 West 18th Street
Austin Texas 78701

Personnel: Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone, flute, bass flute; Jose Davila: trombone, tuba; Liberty Ellman: guitar; Christopher Hoffman: violincello; Elliot Humberto Kavee: drums, percussion.

For over forty years, Henry Threadgill has been celebrated as one of the most forward-thinking composers and multi-instrumentalists in American music. The New York Times has called him "perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation." Born in 1944 in Chicago, Threadgill was an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

The jazz avant-garde has produced dozens of notable improvisers (not surprisingly, since improvisation is arguably the music's defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is a member of that exclusive club. With his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and MuhAl Richard Abrams, he's one of the most original jazz composers of his generation. Threadgill's art transcends stylistic boundaries. He embraces the world of music in its entirety, from ragtime to circus marches to classical to bop, free jazz, and beyond. Such might sound merely eclectic in the telling, but in truth, Threadgil always sounds like Threadgill.

In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Henry Threadgill was named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished musical composition by an American." In awarding the prize, the Pulitzer committee call the release "a highly original work in which notated music and improvisation mesh in a sonic tapestry that seems the very expression of modern American life." We could not be more ecstatic for Henry and are honored to have been able to help document his work these last 15 years.
We hope you will join us for these very special events.

This project is supported by individual contributions, and the City of Austin Cultural Arts program.

Watch a conversation with Henry Threadgill below: