The Boise Jazz Society is a Boise, Idaho ~ Boise State University community-engagement partnership, supporting jazz performance, jazz education, and the promotion of jazz as a living American art form.

New Memberships Available to the General Public!
General Admission single tickets available September 2019

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The Boise Jazz Society presents pianist, Jean-Michel Pilc

"A dazzlingly inventive pianist." Nate Chinen, The New York Times

 
"There may be no more diverse, unpredictable jazz piano player, song to song, than Jean-Michel Pilc."

Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes. 

Please visit: http://www.jeanmichelpilc.com

May 30, 2019
Two Sets: 7 pm & 9 pm
Boise Bleu Note II
1617 N. Orchard, Boise, Idaho
(Second gray/white house near NW corner of Fairview and Orchard)
Boise Jazz Society Members Only
BYOB - Light Snacks Provided
$25 Donation per Member to Jazz Education Campaign Much Appreciated
Very Limited Seating - First Come-First Served - RSVP ASAP to Mike Samball

"His densely harmonic reinventions of standards you thought you knew clearly shows a musical genius at work." Eric Brace, The Washington Post

Check out his variations on Days of Wine and Roses & Someday My Prince Will Come

Born in 1960 in Paris, now an American citizen, self-taught pianist and composer Jean-Michel Pilc has performed with numerous jazz giants: Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Jean Toussaint, Rick Margitza, Martial Solal, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Marcus Miller, Kenny Garrett, Lenny White, Chris Potter, John Abercrombie, Mingus Dynasty & Big Band, Lew Soloff, Richard Bona etc. He has also worked with Harry Belafonte, as his musical director and pianist, and has performed a duet with the legendary opera singer Jessye Norman.

Jean-Michel has also built a strong international reputation as a very unique educator. Between 2006 and 2015, he was a NYU Steinhardt faculty member, giving private lessons (piano and other instruments), ensemble classes and improvisation workshops. He was Co-Director of NYU Summer Jazz Improv Workshop in 2010. Jean-Michel also taught for the New School in NYC, as well as privately.

In 2015, Jean-Michel became an Associate Professor at The Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal where he chairs the Jazz Area and teaches courses in jazz, piano, and improvisation (all instruments), and also a Seminar on improvisation in all styles to all McGill music majors; jazz and classical students alike.