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Chris Pattishall Quartet
Chris Pattishall - piano
Stephen Riley - sax
Will Goble - bass
drums - tbd
Biography
Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Chris Pattishall is a compelling creative presence in the music world. He has appeared with Wynton Marsalis, Jon Hendricks,Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, George Coleman, Billy Hart, Jamey Aebersold, Wycliffe Gordon, Fred Wesley, Steve Wilson, Steve Nelson, Billy Kilson, Bucky Pizzarelli,Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield Sr. and Rafiq Bhatia. Pattishall can be heard on
Jamison, the Grammy-nominated debut of vocalist and drummer Jamison Ross.
Recently named by Wynton Marsalis as one of the top five jazz musicians under 30 to watch, Pattishall increasingly operates at the convergence of disparate musical practices. March 2017 saw the premiere of an ongoing ambient electroacoustic
collaboration with guitarist and composer Rafiq Bhatia In August 2016 Pattishall premiered Fictions, a chamber music suite based on the short stories of Jorge Luis
Borges as well as recording for Spirio, Steinway's state-of-the-art self-playing piano. In December 2015 Pattishall was the Music Director for Divas of the Silver Screen, a
tribute to Ethel Waters, Lena Horne and Rosemary Clooney as part of the 2015-16 Jazz at Lincoln Center season. He has also performed select classical repertoire, pairing
works by Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel with those of Duke Ellington and George Gerswhin.
Active as both a pianist and composer, Chris holds an ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, and participated in the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program and
the Ravinia Festival Steans Young Artist Program.
Pattishall is an engaged music educator, teaching privately and at William Paterson University. Chris also conducts masterclasses with high school jazz ensembles
throughout the United States, and he regularly presents masterclasses on jazz and its
socio-historical context in the New York City public school system.
Pattishall currently resides in New York City, where he performs at many of the city's
renowned jazz clubs including Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Small's, Iridium, Smoke, the
Kitano and The Blue Note. He holds a B.A. in Jazz Studies (Magna Cum Laude) from
Florida State University and a M.M. in Jazz Performance from William Paterson
University and has studied with Harold Mabern, Mulgrew Miller, Marcus Roberts and
Gary Kirkpatrick.
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4608-L Industry Lane
Durham, NC 27713
United States
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