This concert will feature experimental original music by Patricia and Susan, two amazing and extremely talented musicians with guest artist Lucio Jimenez in percussion. Entrance fee $100, Mezcal by INSITU Bodega.
Patricia Burgess is a saxophonist and composer who focuses on contemporary writing and improvisation. Her operas have been presented at the The Top of the Rock Observation Center at Rockefeller Center, Merkin Concert Hall at Lincoln Center and a world music festival in Nepal. A Queen of Tibet, the woman aviator Amelia Earhart and Hillary Rodham Clinton grace her storytelling. Her compositions have won awards from New York State Council of the National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer among others. Her style has been influenced by Arnold Schoenberg and John Coltrane.
Susan Hazel Creamer, social worker, psychotherapist, and pianist is a native of the Boston area and a resident of Oaxaca on and off since 1996. She studied classical music in her childhood and jazz composition and arranging briefly at Berklee College of Music in her twenties. The latíno influence is heard in many of her compositions, thanks to the many local musicians she has played with over the years. Oaxaca is now her permanent home.
Lucio Jiménez. Oaxacan drummer and percussionist. His musical education has been through courses and clinics like the Jazz Fest in Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mex), courses of harmony, arrangement and composition taught by teachers like Alberto Martinez Moren, and Pere Soto. He has participated in various national and international festivals such as FAOT (Sonora, Mex), Strawberry Festival (Sonora. California), Festival of Calaveras (Aguascalientes, Mex), Jazz Festival Playa del Carmen (Campeche, Mex), between others and with various ensembles such as the jazz Big Band of Oaxaca and jazz quartet of Ornel Jiménez, with composers of traditional
Oaxacan music as Víctor Martínez and "Guajiro" Lopez and percussionist guest at the Symphony Orchestra of Oaxaca and Symphony Orchestra BUAP. Currently (2016) is involved with projects like Senior Blues, jazz quartet Ornel Jiménez, Monkey Blues and jazz trio Álvaro Torres.