Event

Stephanie Trick & Paolo Alderighi PLPA Season Opener

Paolo and Stephanie met at a piano festival in Boswil (near Zürich), Switzerland, in 2008 and started to collaborate on a four-hands piano project dedicated to classic jazz, preparing arrangements of songs from the swing era, as well as drawing from the ragtime and blues repertoire. Following the 2012 release of their first album, Two for One, they have been invited to many festivals and events in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Their second CD, Sentimental Journey (2014), shows their commitment to the formula of four-hands duets on one piano, rarely used in jazz. They recently released two new recordings, Double Trio Live 2015, and Double Trio Always (2016), with the classic jazz trio setting (piano, bass, and drums), but with two pianists instead of one.

They have performed in a variety of venues in the United States and in Europe, including the Sacramento Music Festival; the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento; the Monterey Dixieland Jazz Festival, the San Diego Jazz Festival, the Kobe Jazz Street Festival in Kobe, Japan; the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; the KIG Dixieland Festival in Dresden, Germany; the Ascona Jazz Festival in Ascona, Switzerland; the Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Kecskemét, Hungary; Teatro Dal Verme Milano, Jazzland Wien, Bülach Jazz Club, Jazz Bistro in Toronto, and other jazz clubs.

At the venue, the center section of the auditorium is reserved for series subscribers. General admission tickets are for open seating surrounding the reserved section. Subscribers, benefactors, and volunteers will be admitted at 6:15 to preselect seats; general admission begins at 6:30. After making seat selections, everyone is invited to visit PLPAs no-host wine bars in the Great Room and then enjoy an exhibit by an Artists' League member. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.